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August 17, 1977 – CBS News – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 17, 1977 – It was the day after the death of Elvis Presley. A wave of nostalgia hit the country as fans by the thousands gathered outside his Graceland home in Memphis to
Heaven 17 – (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang – 1981 – Virgin Records Heaven 17 – still around – still gigging. But in 1981 they released this song and they made it clear that, like so many felt at the time, the state of the world was going
TV: Dream Or Nightmare – NPR – National Town Meeting – July 28, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – TV – we don’t think twice about it today. Between cable Television and on-line streaming, the choices of what to watch have become endless and often overwhelming. But just as
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Ethel Hubler – The National Voice – Bring Back Prohibition – circa 1935 -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Prohibition. In case you didn’t know, there was a time in the 20th century when it was illegal to buy alcohol or consume it in public. It was an Amendment to the
May 31, 1987 – ABC World News This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 31, 1987 – the last day of a perplexing month in 1987, and the last haywire week of May, 30 years ago. A week you needed a scorecard and interpreter to figure out. Starting
Roy Wilkins – NBC Radio: Negro Newspaper Week – March 14, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Roy Wilkins – beginning in 1955 he was Administrator for the NAACP. By the end of that year he would be head of that organization, during a time of tremendous social upheaval
