Category Social Commentary

Iran And The Patient On Floor 17 – October 23, 1979

– CBS World News Roundup – October 23, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this October 23rd in 1979 was a harbinger of things to come. On this day, The Shah of Iran arrived in New York…

Palestine

The UN Mandate On Palestine: Trading An Upset Stomach For A Splitting Headache – Sept. 14, 1947 – Past Daily Reference Room

-Story Behind The Headlines – Palestine And The UN – Sept. 14, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – “Had we known then what we know now . . . . .” – I’m sure that mantra has been said…

Clarence Thomas

SCOTUS: Dawning Of The Age Of Clarence – October 20, 1991

– ABC World News This Week – October 20, 1991 – ABC Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 20, 1991 culminated a week of contentious questioning and cross-examination over President Bush’s nomination of Clarence Thomas to the…

Television In 1940 – Boob Tube – Idiot Box – Savior Of Mankind – Past Daily Reference Room

– Sen. Ernest Lundeen Discusses Future of Television and The FCC – April 6, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When Television was in the experimental stage – when it was just at the dawn of being realized as…

Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas Hearings 1991

October 10, 1991 -Anita Hill Goes To The Hill – The Ever-present Stain Of Harrassment

– October 10, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 10, 1991 – and the atmosphere around Capitol Hill was going to get very thick with outrage. Days after revelations that Supreme Court nominee…

Artur Schnabel With Alfred Wallenstein And The Los Angeles Philharmonic – In Concert 1945 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone

– The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Alfred Wallenstein, Cond. – Artur Schnabel, Piano – The Standard Hour – March 4, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! Something historic for a Sunday night. A performance by the Los…

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein Reads Gertrude Stein 1934 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry

– Gertrude Stein reads Gertrude Stein – 1934 recordings – Gordon Skene Sound Collection.- Realizing this was recorded almost 90 years ago, and wondering what the reaction was at the time to the poetry of Gertrude Stein, it’s impossible not…

Human Behavior – Is It Really Getting Worse? 1976 – Past Daily Reference Room

– NPR – National Town Meeting – September 1, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Depending on who you talked to, Human Behavior has either vastly improved since the Dark Ages, when atrocities towards fellow human beings ran to…

Censorship: 1957 – Past Daily Reference Room

– The Open Mind – Book Censorship – Feb. 24, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the prevalent memories of the “carefree” 1950s was the preoccupation much of our society had with reading material deemed obscene,and the…