Category: Past Daily Reference Room
President Ford Talks Tax Cuts – March 29, 1975
Being a subscriber has percs – honest: Become a Patron! – March 29,1975 – President Ford Signs the Tax Cut Bill – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Congress on both sides of the aisle praised President Ford this day for singing the $24.8 billion tax cut,
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff And The State Of The American City – 1967 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Subscribing works wonders: Become a Patron! – Sen. Abraham Ribicoff – Meet The Press – January 1, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Plight of the American city – Urban decay – urban unrest – poverty – no jobs – no schools – no alternative. These were the issues
Adlai Stevenson Begins His 1956 Presidential Campaign – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Become a subscriber with Patreon: Become a Patron! – Adlai Stevenson – first Campaign speech of 1956 Campaign – Sept. 13, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Adlai Stevenson, probably a name not many remember these days. Former Governor of Illinois who ran for President on the Democratic Party
Paranoia In The Age Of Anxiety – Operation Alert – 1959 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
– Operation Alert 1959 – Conelrad Emergency Broadcast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection If the Cold War period wasn’t frightening enough for the average person, with daily news reports of tensions and takeovers and thinly-veiled threats, there was the extra added bonus of having to deal with the almost constant
LBJ Addresses Congress – Voting Rights Act Of 1965 – March 15, 1965
Become a Patron! – President Johnson – Address to Congress – Voting Rights Act – March 15, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With a legacy started by President Kennedy, and beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, President Johnson began his first official term of office by
Eisenhower – Republican Convention – 1952 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Become a Patron! As Convention season gets closer (and one can only guess what 2024 will be like), here is a sampler from another Republican Convention – seventy-two years ago – July 11,1952. General Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers the acceptance speech for his party’s nomination on July 20, 1952. Eisenhower
A Word Or Two From Swami Satchidananda – 1967 – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
NET: Newsfront – Interview with Swami Satchidananda – September 6, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In that wildly upheaval year of 1967 among so many revolutionary changes, came an onslaught of Gurus from India. Not that Eastern Philosophy and Indian Swami’s were new to the U.S. – but
National Farm Day – 1941 – FDR, Henry Wallace, Claude Wickard – March 8, 1941
Check us out for 7 days free: Become a Patron! – Pres. Roosevelt, vice-President Wallace, Sec. of Agriculture Claude Wickard – Farm Day 1941 – March 8, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection March 8, 1941 marked the 2nd annual National Farm Day. To commemorate the event, President Roosevelt,vice-President Henry