[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”16533″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 21, 1959 – Hawaii Statehood Special Report – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] After years of lobbying and decades of waiting, President Eisenhower finally made it official – Hawaii became the 50th state of the Union. The signing ceremony was brief,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Coup in Russia – CBS Radio/BBC World Service – August 20, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection On this August 20th in 1991, Russian history would stage a repeat of 1964. In that year, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev was overthrown in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Mutual Radio Coverage of Democratic Convention – August 16, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The day before Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson was scheduled to give his acceptance speech for the nomination, he made a special appearance the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Kurt Vile & The Violators – Live at Route du Rock – Aug. 17, 2014 – Radio France/FIP Back to Festival season, as Summer slowly runs down. Tonight it’s a visit to Route du Rock at Saint Malo France for yet
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Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News – reports on Peekskill riots – August 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Maybe it’s Summer. Maybe it’s August. But the amount of rage and mayhem taking place during this particular month gives one pause, to say the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio Special – Youth In A Changing World – March 9 ,1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As happens with seemingly every generation, every generation preceding the current one expresses worry. What’s going on with this generation, are they equipped
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Talulah Gosh – in session for John Peel – Dec. 29, 1987 – BBC Radio 1 You might be hard pressed to recall Talulah Gosh, unless you were a devotee of the short lived Twee-Pop Movement in the late 1980s. But
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Voices and Events – Week ending August 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection And sometimes Summer isn’t necessarily violent or simmering or even contentious. This particular August 14th, 65 years ago was just that; a typical August
Click on the link here for Audio Player – That Petrol Emotion – In session for John Peel – December 16, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 Edgy 80s tonight with a session by That Petrol Emotion, recorded for the John Peel Program at the BBC on December 16, 1986. Formed
