– NBC News – July 4, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was only fitting that July 4th in 1972 be deemed a slow news day – there really wasn’t that much going on. If you excluded the race to the White House via the upcoming 1972 Presidential
– News Of The World/Eleven o’ Clock Report – July 3, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though the war was over in Europe, it was still going at fever pitch in the Pacific. Some 500 B-29’s were staging massive air-raids and busily destroying much of the industrial
It works – it really does: Become a Patron! July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As part of the legacy of John F. Kennedy, who had proposed the Civil Rights Bill a year earlier, Johnson was committed to making the Act a
– Dewey-Stassen Debate – 1948 Presidential Election; Republican Ticket – May 17, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When former New York Governor and Republican Presidential hopeful Thomas E-Dewey debated former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen during the Republican Presidential primaries of 1948, it was something new that hadn’t been
– 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
– President Truman addresses closing of San Francisco Conference – June 26, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 79 years ago today, on June 26, 1945 there was cause for celebration. A cautious one, because we were still in the middle of the war in the Pacific, but an
– June 26, 1936 – CBS – Convention Day 4 excerpt – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 26, 1936 – Day 4 of the Democratic Convention from Philadelphia. Philadelphia was the site for the 1936 convention – a convention which was much calmer than that of 1932. FDR and
– Michael Jackson death – Farrah Fawcett death – June 25, 2009 – Further evidence this day in history has been busier than most. Hard to believe it’s been fifteen years since the tragic news came that Pop Icon Michael Jackson had died. An already troubled figure working on what
– NBC Radio – Bulletin regarding Allied entry into Cherbourg – June 25, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Nineteen days after the initial landings at Normandy, the Allies were still in the midst of battling their way to Paris. Some objectives were easily taken, while others were difficult.
– Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow – Korea – June 24, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Depending on where you were at the time, the events which rapidly spiraled into the Korean War started either on the afternoon of June 24th, or the morning of the 25th in 1950.
