– CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – June 27, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this June 27th, twenty-four years ago was somber and pessimistic on a number of levels. The Global AIDS crisis had gone from bad to worse, with a bleak prognosis that entire
A few good subscribers: Become a Patron! At the risk of sounding like a broken record and belaboring a point over and over, the argument over Universal Healthcare, Affordable Healthcare, proposed legislation for some subsidized Healthcare are all old issues. Issues that have been at forefront of the American consciousness
Works wonders: Become a Patron! – News for February 14, 1975 – News for this Valentine’s Day in 1975 was anything but heart-warming. It was all about the Recession. It was about unemployment and it was about bleak economic figures. And those figures were just not getting any better. And
Coffee works and it works real good: – Open Mind: Should Abortion Be Legal- 1964 – The controversy over the issue of Abortion has been raging, certainly since the landmark SCOTUS Roe v. Wade in 1971, but much-much earlier than that. The question was always “should they be legal?”, but
A little support goes a long way: – NBC – Roe v. Wade report – Jan. 22, 1973 – Fifty-one years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down a decision that made a Woman’s right whether or not to choose to have an Abortion a legal right. Prior to this
– CBS News Reports and The World Tonight – October 2, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day 38 years ago was sad and sobering. On October 2nd 1985, actor and Hollywood icon Rock Hudson, who only a year before had been diagnosed with AIDS, died
– Universal Healthcare Debate – Dec. 4, 1941 – As a reminder of just how long the debate over affordable Healthcare has been going on, here is a panel discussion and Q&A from December 4,1941, featuring Dr. SS. Goldwater, City Hospital commissioner for New York, Margaret Bourke-White, the photographer/social chronicler.
– America The Violent-1969 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Perhaps not as bad as it is now, but violence seems to be just as integral a part of American society as the automobile. The question has always been ‘why?’ and the hand-wringing and breast-beating comes with
– July 7, 1998 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 7, 1998, and the third return of the notorious Linda Tripp to the Grand Jury to lay out some 20 hours of taped phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky. The scandal involving the White House
