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University of Texas Shooting 1966

America The Violent – 1969 – The Ghastly Things We Do – A Society Of Folded Hands – Past Daily Reference Room

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”37501″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 15, 1969- Second Sunday: America The Violent – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Another School Shooting – another invasion of what once was Safe Haven – another stain on our society.…

Sandinista rebels

January 15, 1984 – Bringing Central America To The Boil – And The Word Is Sandinista.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”19096″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 15, 1984 – World News This Week – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Thirty-seven years ago this week, the simmering stew of politics and saber-rattling hit the boiling point in Central…

Democracy in Peril 1939

Is Democracy In Peril? – Harold Ickes And Gen. Hugh S. Johnson Discuss – 1939 – Past Daily Reference Room.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”36420″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 11, 1939 – America’s Town Meeting – Mutual – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] In the early days of the War, when it was still confined to Europe, and most considered it “their problem”…

Hello to Mao

January 14, 1950 – A Slight Change Of Plans – The Exit Of Chiang – The Entry Of Mao –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12070″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 14, 1950 – Voices And Events – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] If it was any indication of how the rest of the decade, let alone year, would go, the week…

Jimmy Carter Press Conference -Starting The Political Year – January 12, 1978

This day in 1978 saw President Jimmy Carter give his first Press Conference of 1978. And by the looks and sounds of it, the political year would have enough drama to go around. Taking center stage was the crisis in…

January 11, 1944 – FDR -The Second Bill Of Rights -A State Of The Union In Wartime –

Recovering from a bad case of the Flu, President Roosevelt delivered the 1944 State of The Union address from the Oval Office, rather than in a Joint Session of Congress. The war had been going on for 3 years and…