An LBJ Press Conference – May 30, 1968
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Class of ’53 – Teenagers Of The 50s – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Sixty years ago, almost to the day, America was muddling over the question “what’s happening to today’s youth?” – Crime was up, juvenile delinquency was up, unwanted pregnancies were up, drug and alcohol abuse were up, high-school drop-outs were up.
Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) – Symphony Number 1 – World Premier 1951 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Even at the ripe old age of 97, the passing earlier this week of French Contemporary composer Henri Dutilleux was sad news. One of the leading Contemporary Composers of the late 20th Century, Dutilleux was a rugged individualist, refusing to
A Few Words From Ray Manzarek (RIP – 1939-2013) – Past Daily Pop Chronicles: Tributes
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Yet another sad passing to report. News today of the passing of Doors co-founder and author Ray Manzarek at 74 from a long bout with Cancer in Germany took a lot of people by surprise, me included. Despite reports coming
Spiro Speaks – An Interview With vice-President Spiro Agnew – May 17, 1970
Click on the link here for Audio Player: With the disastrous events at Kent and Jackson State and the rising opposition to the War in Southeast Asia and our incursion into Cambodia, the White House desperately needed to shore up some dramatically falling popularity. So vice-President Spriro
Pakistan At The Polls – 1950 – Today With Mrs. Roosevelt – Past Daily Reference Room
Click on the link here for Audio Player: With the first open and democratically held elections in Pakistan in several decades coming up this Saturday (May 11), I ran across this very early interview, less than three years after independence was declared for Pakistan and the neighboring India.
The Short Fuse Called Palestine – May 3, 1946
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for this particular May 3rd in 1946 was about the Middle East, primarily the area of Palestine. And the news wasn’t good. With tensions between Arabs and Jews mounting, with violence breaking out seemingly everywhere in the region, and
April 5, 1976 – Henry Kissinger And The Middle East – Rubbing People The Wrong Way
News for April 5, 1976 News for this day in 1976 had, among other things, much to do with Secretary Of State Henry Kissinger and the ruffling of feathers in the Middle East, most notably the Israelis. Secretary Kissinger was confronted by a Jewish-American resolution in Congress, accusing him and
Death In Memphis – Day Of Rage – April 4-5,1968
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Robert F. KennedyAnnounces the death of Martin Luther King – April 4, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Death of Martin Luther King – The Aftermath – CBS Radio – April4-5, 1968 –
A Plague Of Scrap-Metal Merchants – April 3, 1982
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for April 3, 1982 On April 3rd, 1982 the most common sound heard this day was the flipping of map pages, trying to figure out just where exactly and what exactly The Falkland Islands were. Because on this day it was