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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Easter 1937 – Father Coughlin’s Easter Sermon – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Easter 1937. Father Coughlin has been referred to as one of the first, if not the first purveyors of hate radio. That under the guise of giving…
April 8, 1952 – President Harry Truman issues Executive Order over the Steel Strike – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! From 1950-1953, the United States was involved in the Korean War. To fund the war, Truman originally…
– Wartime Draft Lottery – March 17, 1942 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The First Draft Lottery to take place in wartime took place on this day in 1942. Into a giant fishbowl went many thousands…
NBC Radio – Second Sunday Series: Revolution In Revolt – 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Editors Note: This was originally posted in 2014, during another crisis involving Russia and Ukraine (along with Crimea), as an example of history often…
Today marks the Birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King. And so to commemorate his birthday, and to honor his memory and his work, here is one of a series of lectures Dr. King gave for the CBC in Canada in…
– NBC Radio – Second Sunday: The Johnson Years – January 12, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January in 1969 signified the end of one era and the beginning of another. Lyndon Johnson, declining to run for a…
FCC Chairman Frank McNinch address – Nov. 12, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Bearing in mind that Radio was the modern technological advance in 1938, Television was only in experimental stages, and computers weren’t even considered, there was a…
– President Franklin Roosevelt – Message for the 1934 Mobilization For Human Needs – Oct. 22, 1934 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1934 we were still in the grip of a Depression. Federal, State and Local governments were…
– Geoff Edwards Show – November 26, 1979 – Looking around for events which occurred on this day in history, I ran across this tape of an hour’s worth of L.A. radio station KMPC, recorded between 9 and 10 in…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”17287″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 30, 1964 – ABC Radio – Campaign Digest ’64 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] ABC Radio News – Campaign Digest ’64 – September 30, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the…