Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Category History
August 29, 1979 – Northern Ireland: In The Wake Of Mountbatten; Suspects – The Navy And The KKK
August 29, 1979 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 29, 1979 – Only days after the assassination death of Lord Mountbatten, Irish police were busy rounding up suspects; members of the Irish…
Bloody Thursday – The Saga Of People’s Park, Berkeley – 1969 – Past Daily Weekend
KPFA/Pacifica – People’s Park – May 20, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the Decade of the 60s began drawing to a close, contrasts became more pronounced – celebrations became more intense, protests became more violent – it…
August 17, 2001 – Fire Season: Bad To Extreme – Hurricane Season: Iffy – Steve Fossett: Attempt Number 5
August 17, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 17, 2001 – A day of weather extremes. The fire danger in the Pacific Northwest had gone from Bad to Extreme, with wildfires…
August 14, 1978 – Jimmy Carter Talks To The Farmers – The King Assassination Inquiry Starts
August 14, 1978 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 14, 1978 – On this day 40 years ago, President Jimmy Carter addressed a gathering of the Mid-Continent Farmers Association. In what was…
August 11-16, 1965 – Five Nights In Watts – Chronicle Of A Disturbance – Past Daily Reference Room
August 11-16, 1965 – KMPC Reports/Newscasts – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! On the evening of Wednesday, August 11, 1965, 21-year-old Marquette Frye, an African-American man driving his mother’s 1955 Buick, was pulled over by California Highway…