James Baldwin – Lecture at Castlemont High School – Oakland, California – Broadcast June 23, 1963 – KPFA – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This was not the first lecture James Baldwin gave to a group of high school students, nor was it the last. During the civil rights movement
– News for August 26, 1945 – NBC Radio/WEAF, New York – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1945 had much to do with preparations for the official surrender of Japan and the Allied occupation, getting ready to take place within days. Because of a threatened
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
A lot of things make us unhappy, including the things we thought would make us happy. What does it mean to be happy? And, perhaps more importantly, who gets to decide what happiness should look like? Those questions were at the heart of an unusual debate between economist Lord Richard
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Tom Smothers – Lecture at The Commonwealth Club of California – August 22, 1969 – It was a while ago, fifty-seven years to be exact. Seems trivial now but at the time it was one more bone of contention in a contentious decade that seemed to spread over every aspect
LBJ- Signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 – August 6, 1965 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1965 – LBJ signs into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965. President Johnson: Wednesday I will send to Congress a law designed to eliminate illegal barriers
CBS Radio – Newsmark: Housing the Homeless – January 17, 1988 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When CBS Radio’s Newsmark aired its documentary Housing the Homeless on January 17, 1988, homelessness had become one of the defining social issues of the Reagan era. Images of families living in shelters, men
– Edward R. Murrow and The News with Larry Lesueur – July 31, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – News for this day, 76 years ago, was about the ongoing war in Korea and the delicate maneuvering taking place at the United Nations at their temporary headquarters at Lake
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