Category: Past Daily Reference Room
New Technology 1973 – Communications And People – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
You know you want to: Become a Patron! – CBC Radio: Toward A New Humanism – Episode 13: New Technology; a look ahead – 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 51 years ago. Talk about computers and a new form of communication – of exchanging ideas and data between
British Elections – February 1950 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Make a huge difference: Become a Patron! CBS Reports – The British Elections – February 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – There was a time, right after World War 2, and well into the 1960s, where America expressed great interest in the political fortunes of other countries, particularly those
Poverty In Heartland America – The People They Don’t Talk Much About – 1967 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Become a Patron! – CBS Radio – Capitol Cloakroom – February 1, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Poverty. In 1967 much of the focus on poverty and the programs proposed by President Johnson through his Great Society and War On Poverty programs focused much of the attention on
Issue Of Immigration: The Wetbacks – 1954 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Coffee? – CBS Radio – The Wetbacks – April 11, 1954 – The hot-button topic of Immigration is once again heading to the front page. The decades-old question of how to deal with waves of immigrants entering this country to work, live and pay taxes, albeit illegally, has been a
The Death Of Gandhi – January 30, 1948 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Prime Minister Nehru announces the death of Mahatma Gandhi – All India Radio – January 30, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the world was slowly absorbing the news that India’s spiritual leader, Mahatma Gandhi was cut down by an assassins bullets, Prime Minister Nehru had the overwhelming
Them That’s Got – Taxes In America 1974 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Subscribing works wonders: Become a Patron! – The Great American Tax Ripoff – NBC Radio: Second Sunday – April 14, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Taxes, one of the few sure things in life. And there always been a very vocal complaint about our Tax system – how,
Should Abortion Be Legal? – 1964 – Past Daily Reference Room.
Coffee works and it works real good: – Open Mind: Should Abortion Be Legal- 1964 – The controversy over the issue of Abortion has been raging, certainly since the landmark SCOTUS Roe v. Wade in 1971, but much-much earlier than that. The question was always “should they be legal?”, but
Kenneth Rexroth Has A Word Or Two About Censorship And Free Speech – 1957 Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
If you don’t mind: Become a Patron! Kenneth Rexroth On Censorship1957- Kenneth Rexroth was a central figure and guiding light for what became know as the San Francisco Renaissance Movement. He preferred that name, rather than being labeled Father Of The Beat Generation – which, truths to tell, he pretty