Category LBJ

A Word Or Two From Senator Wayne Morse – 1964 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio: From The Capitol – Sen. Wayne Morse – August 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Contrary to popular belief, our involvement in the Vietnam War wasn’t met with universal…

Water, Water Everywhere – 1965 – Drought, Water Pollution And Earth – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio News – Water, Water Everywhere – Nov. 15, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In the 1960s the concern wasn’t so much about Planet Earth running out of water…

Girding Up For A Convention – Senator Everett Dirksen – July 5, 1964 – Past Daily Weekend Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Senator Everett Dirksen on Issues and Answers – July 5, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Heading into the Republican Convention of 1964, this day 50 years ago American media was…

Lyndon Johnson Addresses The National Education Association – July 2, 1965

Click on the link here for Audio Player – President Johnson Addresses the NEA Convention – July 2, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Before he entered politics, it should be noted Lyndon Johnson was a School Teacher. And even…

LBJ At The UN – June 25, 1965

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News – LBJ Addresses United Nations – June 25, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what is shaping up to being a very busy week in history, June…

May 15, 1964 – Free-For-All Primaries – The Bobby Baker Affair

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio News via WXYZ-Detroit – May 15, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This day in May, 1964 was all about Primary fever and the race to the White House.…

Escalation In Vietnam – 1966 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio News – Vietnam 1966: A Year Of Escalation – Feb. 8, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection By 1966 our military commitment to Southeast Asia escalated rapidly past the…

A Word Or Two From Robert F. Kennedy – Meet The Press 1968 – Past Daily Weekend Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Meet The Press – Robert F. Kennedy – March 17, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Certainly, 1968 ended a lot differently than it started out. Since it…

Roy Wilkins Has A Word Or Two About Race Relations In 1964 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio – Issues and Answers – Roy Wilkins – Interviewed by Howard K. Smith – April 26, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Contrary to what is often said in…

Playing The C Card – George Wallace Addresses The Alabama Legislature – March 18, 1965 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Governor George Wallace Addresses The Alabama Legislature – March 18, 1965 – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection On the eve of the historic Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March,…