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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54480″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 26, 1943 – Report on Casablanca Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] January 26, 1943 – Re-cap report on Casablanca Conference – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 26, 1943…
Another inauguration – this one 80 years ago. President Franklin Roosevelt was sworn in for a third term. Joining him was a new vice-President, Henry Wallace. President Roosevelt:” Democracy is not dying. We know it because we have seen it…
Recovering from a bad case of the Flu, President Roosevelt delivered the 1944 State of The Union address from the Oval Office, rather than in a Joint Session of Congress. The war had been going on for 3 years and…
News reports via Mutual Broadcasting System – December 7, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy-two years on, the event which triggered our involvement in World War 2 is getting further and further from the collective memory. Much the same…
November 6, 1936 – President Roosevelt Returns to Washington – NBC Red Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 6, 1936 – Roosevelt wins reelection to the presidency in stunning fashion, gaining 523 electoral votes (27,750,000 popular) to Landon’s…
November 2nd in 1936 was the last day before the Presidential election that year. As a “final word”, President Roosevelt, along with Postmaster General James Farley and New York Senator Robert Wagner, addressed the nation via that relatively recent mass-media…
October 27, 1944 – FDR Campaign Address – Shibe Park, Philadelphia – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In many ways a poles-apart contrast to the Presidential campaign of this year, the Presidential Campaign of 72 years ago…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”24108″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 26, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this October 26th in 1941 was about the War in Europe and ominous reports coming from…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”17610″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 20, 1944 – World News Roundup – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] On this day in 1944, a promise made by General MacArthur as he was leaving the besieged islands of…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”23983″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 19, 1941 – News of The World – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this October 19th in 1941 was about the Eastern Front. The German drive to Moscow before the…