Suburban Sprawl – NBC Radio: Second Sunday – August 13, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s interesting how things change; how they go from one extreme to the other over time. In this radio documentary, produced in 1972, the issue is how this Suburban Sprawl has negatively impacted
Washington Straight Talk With Barbara Jordan – March 24, 1975 Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan shot to fame in the 1970s as part of the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate Hearings. She was also the first Black Woman elected to Congress from Texas and her memorable keynote address at the
CBS-TV audio coverage of 1964 Republican Convention – July 15, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day, at least in the U.S., had primarily to do with the Republican Convention and the selection of Barry Goldwater as Presidential Candidate. Long thought to be the turning point
By 1961, the debate over school textbooks had become one of the most visible fronts in America’s larger Cold War cultural conflict. What might once have been viewed as routine decisions by educators over curriculum had become deeply political questions. Across the country, local school boards, parent organizations, civic groups,
July 9, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 9, 1988 – A day full of painstaking searches. First; Brownsville Texas, where a department store roof collapsed under the alleged stress of collecting rainwater. Seems rooftop drains were clogged and a downpour the previous
As July 7th’s go, this one offered few surprises, at least at the time. From Washington – President Carter, in a marathon reassessment of administration domestic policies 2½ years after taking office, called a group of private citizens to Camp David on Saturday following extensive economic and energy talks with
Democrats and Presidential elections. In 1974 a potential victory was handed to the party on a platter; the resignation of President Nixon and the swearing in of his successor; a man who was not elected, but rather appointed by the President, in the face of a previous scandal involving his
Before he was tapped by President Roosevelt to be his running-mate in the 1940 election, Henry A. Wallace was Secretary of The Agriculture. In 1933, incoming President Roosevelt nominated Wallace to assume Secretary duties at the Department of Agriculture, a post Wallace’s father, Henry Cantwell Wallace held from 1921-1924. Although
June 30, 1940 – The news was ominous and hardly upbeat. France had surrendered to Germany only days earlier. Word from Berlin was, the anticipated invasion of Britain could happen within days or weeks. Britons were expecting the worst and were preparing for it. The very young and the very
June 29, 1977 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 29, 1977 – A big news day on Capitol Hill as the Supreme Court was holding their last session of the term and would be handing down two landmark decisions. One on the Death Penalty
