"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
June 3, 1981 – CBS Radio – 9:00 am Network News – 11:00 am Network News – Gordon Skene June 3, 1981 – Wobbly seemed an apt description for the world this day. A wobbly economy was sending shock waves throughout the world and caused major concerns here at home....
NBC Radio – University Of Chicago Roundtable – Natural Resources, President Truman’s Bold New Plan – February 13, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In his inaugural address of 1949, President Harry S. Truman called for a “bold new program”, to be known as Point Four, as part of...
May 1, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 1, 2001 – Four months into the Bush Administration, the familiar laundry list of issues to tackle; tax cuts and Defense spending. In a policy speech, he said he was going ahead with...
The Great American Tax Ripoff – NBC Radio: Second Sunday – April 14, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Taxes, one of the few sure things in life. And there always been a very vocal complaint about our Tax system – how, over the years it has become increasingly...
BBC World Service – London Letter – March 23, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 2, 1949 was a significant day if you were a Londoner. Difficult to imagine, but London had been under black-out/dim-out conditions since September 1939 – almost ten years, almost five since the war...
February 28, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup – NPR News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 28, 2001 – Big news if you lived in Seattle this day – an earthquake measuring 6.8 rattled through the Northwest cutting a wide swath of destruction, particularly in Downtown Seattle, the...
December 14, 1993 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 14, 1993 – In retrospect, a reasonably quiet news day. Beginning with trade talks in Geneva at the GATT Summit. How a tentative deal was reached, minus any agreement on Film. When the talks finally...
November 23, 1974 – Washington Week In Review – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 23, 1974. Lots to be thankful for, but try getting anyone to feel that way at the time. President Ford was touring the Far East, readying to land in Japan where he was expected to...
November 21, 1948 – NBC Radio: Meet The Press – Senator-elect Clinton P. Anderson – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 21, 1948. A good two weeks after the stunning upset victory by Democrats in the 1948 Presidential election, pundits and reporters were still mulling over what happened. This interview,...
October 25, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 25, 1978 – Depending on where you were, it was an uncomfortable day. If you were in Finance, you would be nervous over the drop in the value of the dollar overseas as reactions spread...
