Robert Kennedy Assassination – KFWB/Group W – Los Angeles 7:45-8:45 am – June 5, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 5, 1968 – 58 years ago today. Most people woke up on this morning to the horrifying news that Robert Kennedy had been shot shortly after delivering a
– CBS Radio: Is Cuba Going Red? – May 7 and 13, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. With the untimely demise of CBS Radio News, I thought it would a good idea to take a look back at many of the defining moments which CBS Radio covered. Over the
Michigan Governor George Romney – it was election year, after all. (Photo: Getty Images) This post is primarily about the news events around May 14, 1964 – but, as many radio stations used to do at the time, roll the tape and record what else was going on five minutes
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– The Foundations Live on Bouton Rouge – Jan. 30, 1968 When I first heard The Foundations, via their massive hits Baby, Now That I’ve Found You and Build Me Up, Butter Cup, it was assumed they were an American Soul outfit, probably from Memphis – certainly in the Stax mould. It
The Monkees – live At Budokan Hall, Tokyo – October 4, 1968 – NHK-FM, Tokyo – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Monkees in concert this afternoon. Recorded live at Budokan Hall in Tokyo on October 4, 1968 and broadcast by Japanese National Radio Network
Black Journal – giving voice to the inner-city – casting light – raising consciousness. Before it became PBS there was National Educational Television (NET). In the late 1960s and early 1970s, American television was undergoing a slow but consequential transformation. Amid a media landscape still dominated by white perspectives, programs
– The Open Mind: Culture And A Market Society – January 31, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In May 1959, President Eisenhower participated in the groundbreaking ceremony which would eventually result in The Lincoln Center For The Performing Arts. It was the first center of its kind and an
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– Pakistan: A Warning To The West – Interview with Gen. Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan – ABC Radio – November 23, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Even as early as 1958, Pakistan was a hotbed of upheaval and change. Going from a British colony to independence to
