– 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 to imagine how the world felt about this new and
– 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 the despicable. Or – if you go further along in
– 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 various organizations and movements afoot, pledged to rid every bookstore,
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– NBC Radio – The American Forum – Mergers: Are they Helpful or Harmful? – January 2, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In this almost constant state of corporate mergers, leveraged buyouts and hostile takeovers, it’s hard to imagine there was a time this was all considered unusual.
ABC Radio: Baukhage Talking – news for October 3, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A nervous October day in 1949. News of China – strikes dragging on, news of a creeping paranoia over Communists, news of Capitol Hill gamesmanship. Starting off was news that Associate Justice William O. Douglas
– CBS News Reports and The World Tonight – October 2, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day 38 years ago was sad and sobering. On October 2nd 1985, actor and Hollywood icon Rock Hudson, who only a year before had been diagnosed with AIDS, died
– Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Live At Old Waldorf – Nov. 15, 1977 – KSAN-FM – Early Elvis Costello. First U.S. tour to coincide with the release of My Aim Is True and the tour that landed him on Saturday Night Live and the incident which banned him
– News Of The World – September 22, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – First day of Fall, 1948. Election season was in full-swing. So was the Berlin crisis. So was the Cold War. In Britain, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin told the House of Commons that Britain, France and
– CBS World News Roundup – September 19, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This September 19th in 1995 had a lot to do with still-at-large domestic terrorist The Unabomber and his demand to publish a 35,000 word manifesto before a deadline which promised more letter bombs if it
