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NBC Monitor – 4:15pm – 5:15pm – June 19, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! America in the 1950s. An afternoon on a typical Sunday in 1955. To a lot of you, it’s a dim-distant past that bears no resemblance to life in America today. To...
Procol Harum – live in Stockholm – recorded at Folkets Husset, Stockholm, Sweden – Sveriges Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A buck here – a buck there – it adds up: Become a Patron! Procol Harum this weekend. In concert from Stockholm, recorded on October 16, 1971 by...
A little means a lot- help us keep history preserved and alive: Become a Patron! The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact. In short; an international agreement to make war illegal. Signed and enacted on August 27, 1928, and being celebrated nine years later, in 1937 as a pact holding by threads, but...
Incredibly grateful for your pitching in so far – but if you haven’t: Become a Patron! February 14, 1942 – News from Palembang was brief and without explanation. Over 100 Japanese planes and assorted fighters swarmed over Palembang in an attempt to secure the oil fields ahead of any destruction...
Become a Patron! National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, giving his assessment of the then-current state of affairs in Southeast Asia and a report card on our military involvement during this episode of Meet The Press. It was broadcast on February 20, 1966. McGeorge Bundy was appointed as National Security Advisor...
Become a Patron! Despite General MacArthur‘s spin that “we are continuing a war of maneuver”, a new phrase had entered into the Korean War Slang dictionary; “Buggin’ out”. On this February day in 1951, United Nations forces and the U.S. Army were in the process of retreating on several fronts,...
Claudio Arrau, Piano – New York Philharmonic – Klauss Tennstedt, guest Conductor -February 12, 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Become a Patron! Another historic concert this week. The New York Philharmonic, led by guest conductor Klaus Tennstedt and featuring piano legend Claudio Arrau in two works for Piano and...
A.B. Skhy – live at The Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco – Recorded March 30, 1969 – KPFA-FM, Berkeley – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A buck may not seem like a lot, but it adds up: Become a Patron! Into the realm of the potentially unfamiliar tonight with a concert...
A little support goes a long way: Become a Patron! News for this day in 1987 started with the storm of protest over a U.S. proposal for a hostage-for-prisoner swap that included 8 Americans and one Israeli in exchange for Palestinians being held by Israel. No, the Israeli’s weren’t going...
Just a few more Patrons is all we need: Become a Patron! Senator Ted Kennedy on Face The Nation. With the 1976 Presidential election looming, and with the saga of Watergate and President Nixon still unfolding and nowhere near being complete, eyes were looking toward 1976 and the contemplation of...
