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President Eisenhower Address at Al Smith Dinner – October 21, 1954 – Waldorf-Astoria Hotel – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another installment of Past Daily’s occasional series “Presidents Being Presidential”. Here is an address by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, made during the occasion of the 10th annual Memorial Dinner for...
January 7, 1997 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 7, 1997 – Another busy January on Capitol Hill. The day started with a pending vote on a second term as House Speaker for Newt Gingrich. He made his case, now it was waiting for...
Timothy Leary – Debate with Jerome Lettvin – MIT – May 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No one will ever convict the 60s of a being a dull decade. Whereas many equate the 1950s with a certain complacency amid paralyzing fear of Communism and The Bomb, the 60s...
June 18-20, 2018 – News Reports from RFI-English Service – ABC Radio National, Australia – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the events of this week still unfolding, and reports of sudden reversals only adding to the confusion, the issue of Children, separated from parents and...
April 7, 1935 – Grayco Movie Column Of The Air – Week ending April 7, 1935 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 7, 1935. If you thought Hollywood (or the concept of Hollywood) was Mecca in the early days of films, you’d be right. If you thought movies were...
February 12, 2002 – NPR News – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12, 2002 – A day which would sound all-too familiar for the months and years ahead. A heightened state of alert, based on information received from inmates at Guantanamo of a pending Terrorist...
January 13, 2010 – CBC News – World Report – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 13, 2010 – Eight years ago. By history standards, not that long. In terms of loss, destruction, grief and sheer magnitude, an eternity to be played over and over by those who witnessed it...
CBS Radio – The Great Challenge – What Beliefs Sustain the Free World? – May 28, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the 1950s were drawing to a close, issues of who we were as people were starting to surface. We were, in America, financially well-off, we were...
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