"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– NBC Radio – Story Behind The Headlines – Palestine – 1948 – With the current escalation of violence over Gaza, casualties rising by the minute and a ground war underway, here’s a reminder that the entire region has been…
– November 8, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 8, 1995 – ending months of speculation over whether he would seek the White House or not, Gen. Colin Powell laid all speculation to…
-NBC – Listen To Washington – November 2,1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the Cold War became a permanent fixture for life in the 1950s, so were the Summit conferences taking place in Geneva. Seemingly, ever few months,…
– NBC Nightly News – October 30, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this October 30th had much to do with transitions of power in a long-running dictatorship. General Francisco Franco, who had authoritarian rule in Spain…
– CBS World News Roundup – October 23, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this October 23rd in 1979 was a harbinger of things to come. On this day, The Shah of Iran arrived in New York…
-Story Behind The Headlines – Palestine And The UN – Sept. 14, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – “Had we known then what we know now . . . . .” – I’m sure that mantra has been said…
– CBS World News Roundup – September 19, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This September 19th in 1995 had a lot to do with still-at-large domestic terrorist The Unabomber and his demand to publish a 35,000 word manifesto…
– ABC World News This Week – Week Ending July 28, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 28th in 1991 was the end of a horrifying week. As news filtered out regarding the arrest of a seemingly innocuous…
June 14, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 14, 1978 – A day full of foreign relations and Cold War tit-for-tat. Beginning with Cold War allegations of Soviet/Cuban/East German meddling in the affairs…
– CBS Radio – The World This Week – Week ending May 19, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A rather violent week, the one ending May 19th, 1974. Capturing the majority of attention (at least in the U.S.)…