"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for Feb. 8, 1983 At the end of a week of heated debate, on this February 8th in 1983, it was determined by an Israeli government commission that Defense Minister Ariel…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for January 14, 1957 News for this day was largely relegated to speculation on the new Eisenhower term, since the Inaugural was a little over a week away, this January 14th…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS – Correspondents Report – 1966 Since we’re coming up on the end of our first week of the new year, I thought I would get one last “Thousand Yard Stare” at…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: Opening Day of Congress – 1937 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: Opening Day of Congress -1937 – Part 2 As a reminder…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for January 3, 1983 This January 3rd in 1983 saw the opening day of the 98th Congress. Speculation and swearing in pretty much filled up the days news, but everything was…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6302″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”1963 – End Of American Innocence – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Even early in 1963, before the assassination of President Kennedy, years before the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and decades before the…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Year End Observations – 1955-1958 The only thing more fascinating than hearing how a year in history wound up, is hearing that year in history interpreted by a pundit – those elements we…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Year-End 1953 A year of contrasts, 1953 was. Between the Coronation of Princess Elizabeth to the gas chamber execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. It…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Years of Crisis – 1958 In 1958 we were knee-deep in the Cold War with grumblings from Europe about a Common Market, or European Union. But on this edition of the year-end Reporters…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 1968 – Year Of Revolution Starting today, and going all the way until New Years Day next week, I will be posting year-end reviews throughout history. A reminder that, in some ways, many…