Category: Past Daily Reference Room
Lyndon Johnson And The Great Society – Urban Dream – Political Nightmare – Best Laid Plans –
CBS Radio – Capitol Cloakroom – Sen. Edmund Muskie – Sen.Karl Mundt – January 24, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sometimes, listening to political arguments can be akin to watching paint dry – it can be stimulating and engaging, but it also be dry as dust. In this
The Cost Of War – The $10 Billion Goof Over Vietnam – Sen. William Proxmire -Meet The Press 1967 – Past Daily Reference Room
Sen. William Proxmire – Meet The Press – February 4, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1967 and the Vietnam War was dragging on – it had escalated and it was starting to look like a war of attrition. In early 1967 it was learned that the budget for
August 11-16, 1965 – Five Nights In Watts – Chronicle Of A Disturbance – Past Daily Reference Room
August 11-16, 1965 – KMPC Reports/Newscasts – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! On the evening of Wednesday, August 11, 1965, 21-year-old Marquette Frye, an African-American man driving his mother’s 1955 Buick, was pulled over by California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer Lee Minikus for allegedly reckless driving .After
Preventive Detention – Internment – America’s Little Stain On History – 1970 Discussion: Past Daily Reference Room
Kup’s Show – Interview/Discussion – Internment/Preventive Detention In 1942. Broadcast July 29, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With public outcry growing in recent weeks over the detention, internment and forced separation of families and children over immigration, and the surprise checkpoints and raids carried out by ICE; all
June 26, 1939 – National Federation Of Press Women Awards – “To Bring Enlightenment And Understanding To The World”
June 26, 1939 – National Federation Of Press Women Awards banquet – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) was organized May 6, 1937, when Helen Miller Malloch and other members of the Illinois Woman’s Press Association (IWPA organized in 1885), along with women from