Category: Society
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
April 22, 1957 – Secretary Of State John Foster Dulles – Foreign Policy In The 1950s – Past Daily Reference Room
John Foster Dulles – Address to Associated Press Luncheon – April 22, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The issue of American Foreign Policy has been in the spotlight recently, with the recent developments in our relations with North Korea as well as the ongoing issues with Iran and
April 17, 1995 – Pondering A Flat Tax – A Widening Gap Between Rich And Poor – Washington Puts Pedal To Metal
April 17, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 17, 1995 – even this day, twenty-three years ago, it was all about money. It was Tax Day – the one day of the year that threw most everyone in America into a panic, the
It’s September 1967 – You’re A Teenager – You Live In L.A. – You Spent Summer In Golden Gate Park – Your Mind Is Blown
KRLA – Casey Kasem – September 16, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Summer is over – life gets back to normal. You spent the summer wandering the streets of San Francisco with your friends from L.A. – you crashed in Berkeley and panhandled for cigarettes. You lost your
When Students Protest – The Anti-War Movement Of The 1960s And 70s – Past Daily Reference Room
Click on the link at the Past Daily site and listen to a discussion from 1970 about the state of Student protests.
A Word Or Two From Jack Tworkov – 1966 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry
Click on the link at the Past Daily site and listen to this 1966 interview with Jack Tworkov, one of the founding figures in the American Abstract movement in painting.
March 2, 1969 – World Amok With Hot-Spots – View From The International Press
March 2, 1969 – NET – World Press Review – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 2, 1969 – Not that America had more than it’s fair share of issues and problems to deal with, seems the entire world was either in a state of demonstration or verging n
March 1, 1950 – The Clock Is Ticking-Ticking – The Atomic Bomb And World Peace
March 1, 1950 – Edward R. Murrow and The News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 1, 1950 – World Peace, the Atomic Bomb, the Soviet Union – the Cold War. These were the issues at hand, this first day of March 68 years ago. On Capitol Hill, Senator