Category Past Daily Reference Room

European Press Conference - 1950s

The Role Of The Press In The World Of 1950 – Past Daily Reference Room

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”53744″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”November 20, 1950 – London Forum – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] London Forum – The Role Of The Press – November 20, 1950 -BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound…

Reading - 1940s

Books, Reading And The Quality Of Life – 1948 – Past Daily Reference Room.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”53684″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 26, 1948 – Chicago University Roundtable – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Books In The Modern World – Chicago University Roundtable – NBC Radio – September 26, 1948 – Gordon Skene…

World War 2 was nowhere over, but there was already talk of a humanitarian crisis.

November 12, 1943 – Anticipating A United Nations – Anticipating Repairing A Broken World. An Interview With Herbert Lehman

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”53672″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”November 12, 1945 – Sydney Mosely – News and Comment – Mutual Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Perhaps, the world having already been down this road before, it was all too painfully clear…

Britain in 1950

Britain In 1950 – New Government, New Outlook, Hopeful Economy – Past Daily Reference Room

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”53563″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”November 8, 1950 – BBC London Forum – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] London Forum – Discussion on the economy in Britain and the elections – November 8, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection –…

America Votes – 1948 – Past Daily Reference Room

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”5521″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 30, 1948 – America Votes – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Harry Truman had ascended to the presidency in April 1945 after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Defeating attempts to…

New York World's Fair 1939

October 30, 1939 – Closing The New York World’s Fair (For The Winter)

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”35811″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 30, 1939 – Closing New York World’s Fair For Winter – Mutual – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] It was October 30, eighty-one years ago that the 1939 New York World’s Fair came to…

Anwar Sadat - UN 1975

October 29, 1975 – Anwar Sadat Addresses The UN General Assembly – Past Daily Reference Room.

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Thomas E. Dewey (L) and Earl Warren (R)

Earl Warren Campaigns For VP – October 28, 1948 – Past Daily Reference Room

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”53436″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 28, 1945 – Earl Warren Campaign Address – CBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Earl Warren – GOP vice-Presidential Nominee addresses crowd at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco – October 28,…

Media In America - 1970

1970 – America And The Media: One Nation, Under Stress. The State Of Radio And TV In 1970 – Past Daily Reference Room.

John W. Macy – Pres. Corporation For Public Broadcasting – Commonwealth Club of California lecture – November 13, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s interesting that, fifty years ago, the complaint was about the vast irrelevance of our…