Category Politics

February 1, 1946 - Picket lines outside Steel Mill

February 1, 1946 – Peace, Strikes And Cross-Country Flights

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”25588″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 1, 1946 – World News Roundup – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 1, 1946 – starting a new month with the same old problems: Strikes, strife and accusations – as…

Egypt Protests - Arab Spring

January 25-February 11, 2011 – The Odyssey Of Tahrir – Arab Spring And The Ouster Of Mubarak –

January 25-February 11, 2011 – News Reports – interviews – eyewitness accounts – BBC -ABC (Australia) – CBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 25-February 11, 2011 – Ten years ago. Maybe not that far in the deep-distant past,…

Snowstorm - January 25, 2000

January 25, 2000 – Mother Nature Fools The Computers – Primary Season In Full Swing – The Great White Wasteland

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54469″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 25, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] January 25, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 25, 2000 – Weather and Primaries…

Tehran protests

January 25, 1979 – Postcards From Tehran

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6669″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 25, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] With no end in sight and protests continuing and becoming more violent, the situation in Iran on this day in 1979…

University of Texas Shooting 1966

America The Violent – 1969 – The Ghastly Things We Do – A Society Of Folded Hands – Past Daily Reference Room

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”37501″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 15, 1969- Second Sunday: America The Violent – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Another School Shooting – another invasion of what once was Safe Haven – another stain on our society.…

Sandinista rebels

January 15, 1984 – Bringing Central America To The Boil – And The Word Is Sandinista.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”19096″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 15, 1984 – World News This Week – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Thirty-seven years ago this week, the simmering stew of politics and saber-rattling hit the boiling point in Central…

Democracy in Peril 1939

Is Democracy In Peril? – Harold Ickes And Gen. Hugh S. Johnson Discuss – 1939 – Past Daily Reference Room.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”36420″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 11, 1939 – America’s Town Meeting – Mutual – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] In the early days of the War, when it was still confined to Europe, and most considered it “their problem”…

Jimmy Carter Press Conference -Starting The Political Year – January 12, 1978

This day in 1978 saw President Jimmy Carter give his first Press Conference of 1978. And by the looks and sounds of it, the political year would have enough drama to go around. Taking center stage was the crisis in…

Nixon - 1973

January 8, 1973 – Nixon – The Next Four Years –

On this January 8th in 1973, we were contemplating what the next four years of a Nixon Administration was going to be like. Having won his second term, Richard Nixon was expected to continue what he set out to do…

America 1956

January 1, 1956 – Looking Ahead At A New Year – Is America Changing? Has It Changed? – Past Daily Reference Room.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54246″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 1, 1956 – New World – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] 1956 seems so deep in the distant past that to many, any discussion of it would be purely in the…