September 15, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 15, 1995 – The War in Bosnia was hopefully drawing to an end. President Clinton announced a 72-hour suspension of air operations, while a U.S. brokered partial-peace agreement was put in place. United Nations Peacekeepers
Atomic Rooster – In Session for Alan Freeman’s Saturday Rock Show – 1970 – BBC Radio 1 Atomic Rooster were a very interesting band, although they didn’t get the immediate response from the audience and critics they should have, and they didn’t receive any of the recognition they deserved in
– ABC Radio Hourly News – 6:00 am – September 10, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day 30 years ago was probably typical of many September 10ths – labor disputes in Detroit, with newspaper workers on Strike and tensions ramping up with Police. On this
– News reports and joint Press conference – Bush-Gorbachev Helsinki Conference – Sept. 9, 1990 – As the crisis in the middle east continued to heat up and as the U.S. was continuing to drum up support for an armed confrontation with Iraq and Saddam Hussein, the fourth summit conference
– Hindi Zahra – Paris Rooftop Concert – September 30, 2015 – Culturebox French-Moroccan singer-songwriter Hindi Zahra has been active since 2009. Her voice and work have drawn comparisons to Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Norah Jones and Manu Chao. But she is no copy or imitator, Hindi Zahra is a
– Roy Harper -Live at Golders Green Hippodrome – 1974 – BBC Radio 1 – Although Roy Harper is widely recognized as one of the most unique and individual singer-songwriters to come along in many years, and his associations with everyone from Kate Bush to Led Zeppelin to Pink Floyd
– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1945 – eighty years ago, the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t
The Civil Rights Movement in America, although simmering since the Reconstruction days after the Civil War was taking center stage, almost one hundred years later. Throughout the 1950s, the movement grew as did the backlash. By the 1960s it was an unstoppable revolution, led by an increasing number of dedicated
Voices And Events for week ending July 24, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A world in a state of upheaval and change, this week ending on this day in 1949. President Truman spoke those words in reaction to the weariness the world was feeling, a mere four years
– NBC – Listen To Washington – The Subversive Activities Control Board – Sept. 21, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – At the height of the Red Scare in the 1950s, a little-known/barely publicized organization started up in Washington. The Subversive Activities Control Board was headed up by former
