"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
May 29, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 29, 1978 – Atlantic City was looking like the promised land this week, even though it was business-as-usual in the world of news and earth-jarring events. Starting with news on the upcoming NATO summit conference....
May 28, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 28, 1994 – Busy news day from The White House, from North Korea, from China and all points in between. Starting with the brewing Choppergate scandal hitting the White House this morning. The brouhaha over...
May 23, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 23, 1987 – What was once the west Texas town of Saragosa was now a pile of rubble after a tornado ripped through the town, killing at least 33 and injuring 115 people. The toll...
May 22, 1989 – CBS Radio News on the Hour + Reports from KNX, Los Angeles – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 22, 1989 – The eyes of the world (at least most of it) were focused on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, as protests to the hardline government of...
May 21, 1984 – CBS Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 21, 1984. El Salvador President-elect José Napoléon Duarté conferred with President Reagan at the White House earlier this day. As he left, he told reporters the watchword of his administration, which was to begin in...
NPR: Options – What’s Happening In China Now? – December 23, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – China after Mao. When Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, died on September 9, 1976, China was in a political and economic quagmire. The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and...
May 17, 1975 – CBS Radio The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 17, 1975 – End of a busy week. With the Mayguez incident resolved, with President Ford announcing the two-day crisis was over, it was now time to look at the incident itself and...
May 16, 1990 – CBS Radio News – KNX, Los Angeles – Bulletins, reports and news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 16, 1990 – Sadness compounded; Jim Henson and Sammy Davis Jr. – both legends in their own right, both irreplaceable figures in the world of Entertainment, gone...
Frank Sinatra Death + News on the Hour – CBS Radio – May 14, 1998 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Frank Sinatra – Even though he had been in failing health for several years, news of his death earlier in the morning of May 14, 1998 came as a...
Sen. John F. Kennedy – Campaign Address at Lafayette, Indiana – April 7, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sen. John F. Kennedy addressing a Campaign rally at Lafayette, Indiana on April 7, 1960. Election 1960; fifty-nine years ago – another time, another century. The issues remain the same...
