[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”16533″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 21, 1959 – Hawaii Statehood Special Report – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] After years of lobbying and decades of waiting, President Eisenhower finally made it official – Hawaii became the 50th state of the Union. The signing ceremony was brief,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Coup in Russia – CBS Radio/BBC World Service – August 20, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection On this August 20th in 1991, Russian history would stage a repeat of 1964. In that year, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev was overthrown in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Kurt Vile & The Violators – Live at Route du Rock – Aug. 17, 2014 – Radio France/FIP Back to Festival season, as Summer slowly runs down. Tonight it’s a visit to Route du Rock at Saint Malo France for yet
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News – reports on Peekskill riots – August 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Maybe it’s Summer. Maybe it’s August. But the amount of rage and mayhem taking place during this particular month gives one pause, to say the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio Special – Youth In A Changing World – March 9 ,1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As happens with seemingly every generation, every generation preceding the current one expresses worry. What’s going on with this generation, are they equipped
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Voices and Events – Week ending August 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection And sometimes Summer isn’t necessarily violent or simmering or even contentious. This particular August 14th, 65 years ago was just that; a typical August
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Lauren Bacall – Interviewed by Jeremy Issacs – March 20, 1995 – BBC I will admit, this has been a terrible week. We’ve lost two icons in as many days. Though one was sudden and shocking, the other is the end
Click on this link to make a donation: http://igg.me/p/881521/x/6847927 I thought I would give you a progress report on how we’re doing so far. As I’m sure you all know by now, we’re in the midst of fundraising to keep the preservation and restoration of thousands of hours of historic
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”16303″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 11, 1947 – Cedric Foster News And Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] The big news for this August 11th in 1947 was the abrupt ending of the Senate Sub-committee Hearings on the wartime contracts of Howard Hughes. The investigation as to where
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Skip Weshner’s Accent On Sound – Live From The Village Gate – May 23, 1959 – KRHM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A few months ago I ran a Skip Weshner Accent On Sound Folk Program live from One Sheridan Square.
