"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– George Meany – Labor Day Address – Sept. 1, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Labor Day in 1967 was on the pessimistic side. Unrest all over the country. Poverty, cities in turmoil, unemployment, the Vietnam War sapping…
– JFK – The State Of The Economy – Aug. 13, 1962 – The Economy, it seems, is always the prevailing topic of political conversation. Where are the jobs, where is the stimulus, where are the tax breaks, where is…
– Democratic Convention Preview – NBC Radio Special – July 5, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sixty-three years ago this week, the Democrats got together in Los Angeles to select a standard-bearer. Odds-on favorite was Massachusetts Senator John…
– June 28, 1983 – CBS World News Roundup + 9:00 Network news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 28, 1983 – A day of mixed messages at home and abroad. During his press conference, President Reagan was asked…
– News for the Week of June 27, 1973 – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the bombs were falling in the hearing room on Capitol Hill, over the latest harrowing disclosures by former Nixon…
– ABC Radio – Voices In The Headlines – June 26, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The week of June 26th in 1966 pretty much epitomized the tone of the 60s; contentious, ironic and questioning. Beginning with the…
– June 19, 1968 – Coretta Scott King – Solidarity Day Address – Gordon Skene Sound Collection 1968 saw no end of turmoil and upheaval in the world. In the first six months alone there was the Tet Offensive in…
And a year to the day after the “official” VE Day end to the War in Europe, the creeping Cold War was making its presence known on this May 8th in 1946. As Europe continued to dig itself out of…
Adlai Stevenson – Address To Florida Democratic National Committee Dinner – March 6, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It seems ironic in some ways and prophetic in others to listen to this address from Former Illinois Governor and…
– February 10, 1992 – Campaign ’92 – The World Tonight – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 10, 1992 – Today was the day of the much-anticipated Iowa Caucuses for this election year. Although it came…