Category: Social Commentary
Robert F. Kennedy Discusses Refugees, Civil Rights and Crime – 1963 – Past Daily After-Hours
Become a Patron! – Robert F. Kennedy – Issues And Answers- April 22, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Robert F. Kennedy may go down in history as an Attorney General of the United States who oversaw some of the most crucial and important issues of the 1960s. Appointed
Love In America 1955 – Past Daily Evening Gallimaufry
– Love In America – Conversation 1955 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Love in America in 1955. It didn’t seem like such a hot-button topic, but people were starting to question things; the status quo, the reason why some traditions were the way they were. In
Nixon And The Milk Fund – Drilling In Shale And Wounded Knee – January 8, 1974
News for January 8, 1974 News on this January 8th in 1974 continued with goings-on at The White House. Watergate was not going to go away, much to the Nixon Administration’s wishes it would. The White House did issue a White Paper on the growing controversy surrounding contributions to the
You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – It’s March 1966 – You Ate At The Cafeteria Yesterday – You Are Having An Out-Of-Body Experience, Or Maybe It’s Lord Tim
– Top-40 Radio -Los Angeles – March 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was the Tuna Fiesta. It had to be. Nobody else ate it – they knew. You were starving. You missed Nutrition. You were building sets for the Talent Show. That’s what you get, taking Stage
Elian Gonzalez: The Odyssey Of Elian – The NAACP Takes On The Networks – Ditka’s Coaching Days Are Over – January 5, 2000
– CBS World News Roundup – January 5, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – On this day 24 years ago, the on-going tug-of-war between relatives of Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban-American community in Miami and the Justice Department were approaching fever-pitch. On January 15,2000 U.S. Immigration officials determined the boy
Sophie Tucker Story 1953 – Past Daily Evening Gallimaufry
– Sophie Tucker Story – October 16, 1953 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sophie Tucker – a name completely unfamiliar to most people. She was one of the biggest stars of the Vaudeville stage in the early years of the last century. And later became a
The Exurbanites – Leaving The City Behind – 1956 – Past Daily Evening Gallimaufry
The Exurbanities – CBS Radio Workshop – March 30, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As far back as post-World War 2 America, the idea of leaving the city, living the bucolic life in the country – getting as far away from noise and crime and smog was a
Y2K – A Four Month Supply Of Spam – January 1, 2000
– News for January 1, 2000 + review of 1999 – January 1, 2000 – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Y2K – all the doomsday scenarios; all the fear, paranoia and hoarding. When January 1, 2000 arrived, so did just another day. So the news for this
Nirvana – In Concert From Rome – 1991 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth
– Nirvana – Live in Rome – Nov. 19, 1991 – RAI Radio 2 – Historic Nirvana this Holiday Hump-Day. From a concert in Rome, recorded by the Italian Radio network RAI on November 19, 1991, the inimitable Kurt Cobain and cohorts, at the zenith of their success around the