Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music
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Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Category History
February 18, 1994 – Sarajevo Pullback – Israeli-PLO Fingers Crossed – Gold Comes To Jansen.
February 18, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 18, 1994 – The view from Sarajevo this day included columns of Bosnian Serb tanks and artillery rolling down from the snow-covered hills around the…
It’s 1965 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In San Francisco – You’re In High School – You Have A Band . . .For Now. Past Daily Pop Chronicles
KEWB, San Francisco – Gene Price Show – December 19, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ever since Rock n’ Roll took American youth by storm in the 1950s, it has been an acknowledged fact that probably the majority…
February 13, 1941 – Franco Meets Petain – A Celebration Of Photo-Journalism
February 13, 1941 – Generalissimo Franco – Marshal Petain Summit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 13, 1941 – With the war escalating in Europe, and the U.S. still reasonably out of it, reports of a meeting between Spanish…
A Seaway Named St. Lawrence – Proposals For A Waterway – 1946 – Past Daily Reference Room
Our Foreign Policy – Proposal For The St. Lawrence Seaway And Power Project – March 9, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The St. Lawrence Seaway, a 189-mile (306-kilometer) stretch of the Seaway between Montreal and Lake Ontario is…
February 11, 1990 – Waiting On Cape Town: The Release Of Nelson Mandela – Talk Of A United Germany
February 11, 1990 – ABC Radio News On The Hour – CBS Radio Special Report – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 11, 1990 – The day Nelson Mandela was released unconditionally from prison prison after 27 years. Accompanied by…
1967 – The View From Capitol Hill – Senator Mike Mansfield And The Johnson Era – Past Daily Reference Room
Issues and Answers – Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield – March 4, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1967 – a year of sweeping social change, primarily among the youth and countercultures. A year of turning corners and taking…
February 8, 1994 – The Odyssey Of Tailhook – Living In Sudden California – Asking The Riddle Of Bosnia.
February 8, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 8, 1994 – A busy day for newsrooms. The Odyssey of the Tailhook scandal was continuing – this time, a military judge in Norfolk, Virginia…
February 7, 1947 – The Great British Freeze Of 1947 –
February 7, 1947 – BBC World Service- London Letter – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 7, 1947 – A Freeze this day – a large and cold weather front was sweeping across the UK in 1947. It happens like…
LBJ: The Great Society And The 89th Congress – 1967 -Past Daily Reference Room
LBJ and The 89th Congress – CBS Radio: Capitol Cloakroom – January 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The crazy-quilt of Politics. In 1967 it was the end of the 89th Congress and the beginning of the 90th Congress.…