"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Walter Cronkite – News and Commentary – November 5, 1980 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Walter Cronkite – the last election he covered before his retirement was the 1980 Presidential campaign. The Most Trusted Man…
CBS Reports – The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson – 1963, rebroadcast 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1962, when Marine biologist and Conservationist Rachel Carson‘s landmark book Silent Spring was published, it immediately caused a storm of…
– Daniel Ellsberg – Interview from The Today Show – July 2, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Editors Note: Hearing the news today of the death of Daniel Ellsberg at the age of 92, it occurred to…
Documentary Recordings from The protests and Police actions – Paris 1968 – Institut des Archives Sonores, Paris – While the drama was unfolding in the streets of Paris and other cities and towns all across France in 2018 and more…
– Keeping Up With The Joneses – April 15, 1959 – KNX-Los Angeles – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Hard to imagine now, but in 1959 Los Angeles was in danger of becoming an overcrowded city, like so many cities…
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Robert F. Kennedy – Address to Town Hall meeting – Biltmore hotel – April 19, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The election year 1968 – a year of tremendous upheaval, uncertainty, conflict, protest and glimmers of hope. No…
Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret – Address To The Children Of Britain – October 13, 1940 – BBC Home Service – Become a Patron! Watching and listening earlier today to Queen Elizabeth deliver an unusual message to the world during…
Army-McCarthy Hearings – June 4, 1954 – CBS Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Army-McCarthy Hearings. Before Trump-Russia, before Whitewater and The Ken Starr Report, before Iran-Contra, before Watergate we had the Army-McCarthy hearings. For the goodly…