"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– ABC World News This Week – December 1, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 1, 1991 – A week where the Cold War was starting to fade from view. A week where The Doomsday Clock was set…
News Commentaries – November 29, 1961 – NBC Radio Closed Circuit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seems there was no end to hotspots around the world, this November 29th in 1961. Between allegations of attempted Cuba interfering in elections in…
– November 21, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 21, 1991 – An historic day for different reasons. One – President Bush signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1991 and Two…
– 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…
– President Truman Address to Congress – November 17, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the War over and the slow process of rebuilding underway, the economic woes of the world were becoming an increasing point of concern to…
– NET – Newsfront – Interview with Godfrey Cambridge – January 2, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – At a time when Black standup comics were just beginning to break into the White mainstream, Godfrey Cambridge was one of…
November 15, 1947 – An approaching Winter and a time of much discontent in the Postwar world. The slow rebuilding of Europe was complicated by mass flooding which wiped out crops and added a severe food shortage to the already…
– Lowell Thomas And The News – Nov. 7, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This is the week for election postmortems, it seems. This day, November 7th, was a day-after in the 1962 Mid-term election cycle. Not as…
. – CBS Radio: Newsbreak + CBS Radio Hourly News – November 6, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When Iran underwent sweeping changes, starting in late 1978 and culminating in the exile (under the pretense of tests for Cancer)…
– CBS World News Roundup – November 3, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Berlin and Capitol Hill: For all intents and purposes, the start of a historic week, this November 3rd in 1989. Starting with the showdown on…