"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– President Eisenhower – Address on the recess of the 83rd Congress – August 23, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the adjourning of the 83rd Congress, in August of 1954, President Eisenhower took to the airwaves to…
Sec. of State Dean Rusk and C. Douglas Dillon – Press Conference re: Alliance For Progress – Aug. 22, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The popularity contest for Hearts and Minds was roaring full-speed ahead on this day…
– August 18, 1973 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 18, 1973 – The end of a hair-raising week worth of Watergate and the end of an excursion into Cambodia. On August…
Al Gore Acceptance Speech – 2000 Democratic National Convention – August 17, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 17, 2000. Doesn’t seem that long ago, in retrospect. But what happened in the intervening years probably changed the world…
– June 2, 1961 – JFK In Paris – reports – NBC News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 2, 1961 – It was the last day of a historic visit to France by President Kennedy and the First…
It was sixty-nine years ago this Memorial Day that President Eisenhower officially proclaimed Memorial Day to be a National Day of Remembrance. A day of remembrance for those who fell at the end of the Civil War, the day has…
– NBC News Of The World – May 23, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this May 23rd 1945 had much to do with the abrupt resignation of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the call for Parliamentary…
Further evidence May, historically, has been anything but a dull month. Take for example this past week in 1975. News for the week ending May 11, 1975 was about upheaval, reprisal and fear for the future. With the collapse of…
As news poured in on a daily basis regarding sweeping advances and the almost total destruction of Berlin and the German Army, it was only natural that news and rumors of surrender would begin to surface, this day in 1945.…
April 26, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 26, 1980 – Aftermath and morning after for the failed hostage rescue attempt. No shortage of outrage, recriminations and wagging fingers. The blasts from Capitol…