– Radio Moscow News In English – April 13, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One of the upticks during the Cold War was the near constant barrage of propaganda, newscasts, jamming of signals and plain old Publicity that took place between the U.S. and The Soviet Union. Before the
Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact – 9th Anniversary celebration – August 27, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A little means a lot- help keep history preserved and alive: Become a Patron! The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact. In short; an international agreement to make war illegal. Signed and enacted on August
American Forum Of The Air – July 9, 1950 – Do We Need A New Foreign Policy? – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. The endless debate on U.S. Foreign Policy, the political wrangling and the blind-sidedness – it would seem to be our legacy going back to the beginning of
April 1, 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy Press Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 1, 1968. A day after President Johnson announced his decision not to seek re-election, the focus was now on Robert F. Kennedy, who announced his candidacy on March 16th. On March 31, President Johnson
Historic moments from 1967 – The first Human Heart transplant, which took place on December 3, 1967 at a hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Surgeons removed the heart of a young who died after an automobile crash and placed it woman in the chest of a 55-year-old man dying
NPR – National Security Hearings – Military Power – June 4, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the early 1970s, with our military strength drained through a protracted Vietnam war, our Foreign Policy was brought into question and the whole issue of breakdowns in negotiations between nations, eventually
The Credit Crisis – CBS Reports – March, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Nothing new with the realization that the Credit industry is the second oldest profession on our planet. Offering the chance to get something you can’t afford has been with us since we became a consumer-oriented society.
It has long been considered one of the darker pages of American history – a page that draws eerie and incredulous comparisons to recent events, but one which has a history of prejudice and racism in America. It all began as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The Great Challenge – Individual Relationships In A Mass Society -April 22, 1956 By 1956 it would be pretty safe to say America was headed well into nervous breakdown territory. Everything was on the rise – divorce, alcohol abuse, prescription medications, fear, paranoia and irrevocable change. And it wasn’t being
– CBS Radio – Eric Sevareid commentary – November 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seemingly, the situations never change. In November of 1958 the big concern was the Cold War – the “control of outer space”, the situation in Berlin and the situation in the Middle East. The grumblings
