ABC Radio – Comments And Condiments – September 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Since the Atom Bomb was here to stay, and in 1946 we, as a species, were getting used to it – radio routinely broadcast tests in the Pacific and in Yucca Flats Nevada and we
July 21, 1978 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 21, 1978 – Good news and odd news for this day. The good news was a tentative agreement had been struck between Union reps for the Postal Service and management, thus avoiding a
University of Chicago Roundtable – Guilt By Association – March 13, 1949 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Fingers of suspicion, guilt by association – all elements of the era known as The Red Scare. The fear of subversion, the fear that America was going to be
July 13-14, 1977 – CBS Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sometime around 8:30 that evening on July 13, 1977, New York City was plunging into a blackout – the second time since the fabled Blackout Of 1965. This time a lightning strike was the culprit, according
July 17, 1940 – Sen. Alben Barkley at the 1940 Democratic Convention – NBC Red Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. July 17, 1940 – Your typical sweltering day in Chicago, site of the 1940 Democratic Convention. Up until this day, a pretty cut-and-dried affair. By the convention Farley and
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June 29, 1977 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 29, 1977 – A big news day on Capitol Hill as the Supreme Court was holding their last session of the term and would be handing down two landmark decisions. One on the Death Penalty
June 25, 1944 – CBS World News Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 25, 1944 – busy day on all battlefronts. Starting with rumors that Cherbourg had fallen to the Allies. German radio reported the loss, while General Eisenhower’s staff were keeping mum until it was a 100%
– CBS Radio: Time For Reason – Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney talk – June 24, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Someone once remarked that we’ve been in an almost constant state of war and conflict since 1939 – and even then, only marginally peaceful since the months before
June 23, 1945 – War Telescope – NBC Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 23, 1945 – As VE continued to wear off and the business of getting back to some semblance of normalcy slowly began, the adjustments to a new life and healing the scars from
