
Category: Interviews


Vincent Willem van Gogh Discusses His Uncle Vincent – 1964 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry
Interview with Vincent Willem van Gogh – Burton Cumming, Director of Communications, New York Graphic Society. – April 9, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Vincent Willem van Gogh, son of Theo and Johanna, was named after his famous uncle, but throughout his early years he strove to make

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 recognized as one of the most challenging engineering feats in

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. It was the Johnson Era – of groundbreaking legislation that

It’s November 22, 1966 – You Live In Los Angeles – The City Has Fallen In Love With Its Own Voice – You Blame Talk Radio – Talk Radio Laughs
KABC – Dick Whittington Show – November 22, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The phenomenon wasn’t entirely new, and it wasn’t completely the property of Los Angeles in the 1960s, but it suddenly seemed like every radio station that wasn’t playing Top-40 was hosting Talk Radio. Disc Jockeys

November 1, 1964 – Election Around The Corner – The Pundits – The Tea Leaves – The Coin Toss
November 1, 1964 – James Farley – Leonard Hall on Meet The Press – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 1, 1964 – the Election of 1964 was days away, in fact a little over 2. At stake were the political fortunes of Republican Barry Goldwater and his running mate

Thom Yorke – In Session/In Conversation – 2018 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Thom York – In Session/In Conversation – Mary Anne Hobbs program – BBC 6 Music – October 15, 2018 – BBC Thom Yorke to start the week. Not only in solo session, but in conversation with Mary Ann Hobbs at BBC 6 Music, recorded at Maida Vale studios on October

October 29, 1961 – Dr. Glenn Seaborg Has A Word Or Two About Nuclear Energy – Meet The Press – Past Daily Reference Room
October 29, 1961 – Meet The Press: Glenn T. Seaborg – Atomic Energy Commission – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – For those of you who don’t know, Glenn Seaborg was a highly influential chemist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was also a huge advocate for the

“Turn Me On, Dead Man” – The Great Paul McCartney Is Dead Hoax – 1969 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Paul McCartney – The Testimony – F. Lee Bailey and others – Nov. 30, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In an era rife with conspiracies, rumors and urban myths, the one that took something of a dubious prize was the one that got started with a report that
