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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Membership has its percs: Become a Patron! – The Eisenhower Years – CBS Radio News – January 8, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Eisenhower Years – the years that started in January of 1953 and ended in…
– Operation Alert 1959 – Conelrad Emergency Broadcast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection If the Cold War period wasn’t frightening enough for the average person, with daily news reports of tensions and takeovers and thinly-veiled threats, there was the extra…
Become a Patron! As Convention season gets closer (and one can only guess what 2024 will be like), here is a sampler from another Republican Convention – seventy-two years ago – July 11,1952. General Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the acceptance…
NBC News on The Hour + Eisenhower visits India News Special – Dec. 11, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Arriving in India as part of his whirlwind tour of 11 countries in 11 days, President Eisenhower landed in…
– Henry Wallace Campaign Address – October 4, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October of 1948, aside from everything else going on in the world, was also a Presidential campaign month. The Democrats had Harry Truman running for…
– The Moscow Fair – September 13, 1959 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Before the infamous U-2 incident (the plane, not the band . . .for you who may not know), there was a decided thaw…
– June 6, 1944 – Continuous news broadcasts and bulletins – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 6, 1944 – A day etched in stone in most history books – the turning point of World War 2. Whether you remembered…
Maybe the Cold War had something to do with it. The Space Race and the dawn of New Technology, but in 1954 one of the things consistently stressed by President Eisenhower throughout much of his Presidency was the crucial role…
March 15, 1953 – Drew Pearson News – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 15, 1953 – While the world was processing the death of Soviet Premier Stalin, his replacement, Gyorgy Malenkov was quickly and quietly taking…
– January 18, 1957 – Edward R. Murrow and the News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 18, 1957; a day where circling the globe took 45 hours, and brokering peace deals took an eternity. A lot of contrasts,…