NBC Radio – Meet The Press – Guest: Dr. Leonard . Scheele – June 5, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Polio Epidemic of 1955 – During the early 1950s, polio rates in the U.S. were above 25,000 annually; in 1952 and 1953, the U.S. experienced an outbreak
June 22, 1955 – News On The Hour – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 22, 1955 – News for this day had much to do with the goings on in San Francisco, site of the original meeting of the United Nations in 1945. Ten years later
– CBS World News Roundup – June 10, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this June 10th in 1994 was hopeful, but not optimistic if you were looking for a quick solution to the Health Care problem. The Kennedy Healthcare bill passed an initial hurdle; clearing the Senate
– CBS Radio – You And . . .The World – January 15-16, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection You could, in all likelihood, use that well-worn phrase from Dickens, The Best of Times – The Worst of Times to apply directly to the decade of the 1950s. On the
– ABC Radio – World News This Week – Week ending April 15, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection For the news of the week that ended on this April 15th in 1990, a lot of it had to do with what was becoming an increasing awareness and realization
This is an interesting recording on two levels. One: it represents some of the earliest attempts at doing on-the-spot location recording and assembling a documentary for radio. Two: it shines a light on the then-current problems facing our medical system; the Urban hospital of 1938 and the problems associated with
Historic moments from 1967 – The first Human Heart transplant, which took place on December 3, 1967 at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Surgeons removed the heart of a young who died after an automobile crash and placed it woman in the chest of a 55-year-old man dying
The Great Challenge – Individual Relationships In A Mass Society -April 22, 1956 By 1956 it would be pretty safe to say America was headed well into nervous breakdown territory. Everything was on the rise – divorce, alcohol abuse, prescription medications, fear, paranoia and irrevocable change. And it wasn’t being
February 17, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 17, 2000 – A lot going on – an election year, higher interest rates and the Pentagon defends its program to vaccinate troops against the Anthrax virus. Amid criticisms and a Congressional
Smog – The Troubled Air – KNX Radio – January 15, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 15, 1954 – if you were around at the time, and you were living in L.A., you would be suffering from a combination of burning eyes, running nose, persistent cough and
