Category: Riots
March 22, 1993 – “Welcome To Radio 21” – Death As Matter-Of-Fact – Ethnic Cleansing as Matter-Of-Outrage.
March 22, 1993 – broadcasts from Radio 21, Kosovo – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The war consuming the former Yugoslavia. Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina – which was inhabited by mainly
Bloody Thursday – The Saga Of People’s Park, Berkeley – 1969 – Past Daily Weekend
KPFA/Pacifica – People’s Park – May 20, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the Decade of the 60s began drawing to a close, contrasts became more pronounced – celebrations became more intense, protests became more violent – it was as if the pendulum of human emotion and experience
May 15, 1998 – Jakarta Is Burning – The G-8 Gets Started – Women’s Clinics Are Shut
May 15, 1998 – NPR News – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – My 15, 1998 – A day of protest, violence and shock. Starting with news that riots in Jakarta, Indonesia had claimed hundreds of lives and that there was little in the way of relief
July 13, 1977 – New York Has A(nother) Blackout
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”34074″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”July 13, 1977 – CBS Radio News on the hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Sometime around 8:30 that evening on July 13, 1977, New York City was plunging into a blackout – the second time since the fabled Blackout Of 1965. This time
March 16, 1988 – Manuel Noriega: “The Gunshots Were Only Kisses”.
March 16, 1988 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 16, 1988 – A busy day if you lived in Central America. Starting with news from Honduras that an attack by Nicaraguan troops on Contra rebels inside Honduras was causing the White House
August 31, 1982 – Boots, MIGs And Strange Little Discs
August 31, 1982 – ABC World News This Morning – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 31, 1982 – A day filled with the usual strife and the familiar struggle. But also a day which would have far reaching consequences in how we listened to music. Israeli fighter jets
July 12, 1996 – In Blew Bertha
July 12, 1996 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Twenty years ago today, on July 12, 1996, we were wondering about just where Hurricane Bertha was going to land. Bertha, blowing at speeds upwards from 90 miles an hour, was poised somewhere off the Carolina
May 1970 – Spring Of Discontent
May 1970 – Discussion over the events at Kent and Jackson State College – KPFK-Pacifica May 1970 – Some called it the turning point in the country’s mood toward the Vietnam War. The protests and discontent had been on the rise ever since the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, and
To Be A College President In 1970 – Past Daily Reference Room
Comment – Former President of Wisconsin State College Fred Harrington – May 2, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Since we’re coming up on an anniversary – the shootings at Kent State during an anti-War Protest, on May 4,1970, I was reminded of how embattled the position of College