"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
On this day in 1957 a brief respite from the onslaught of Christmas shopping and Christmas music to get a report from President Eisenhower on the goings-on at the NATO Summit conference in Paris. President Eisenhower: “For the fifth time…
A crackdown in Poland highlighted the news on this December 22nd in 1981. The Solidarity Movement, which was gaining momentum was abruptly halted when General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and cited a threatened intervention by Soviet forces to seize…
– CBS World News Roundup – December 22, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the years that was winding up on a fragile note, this particular December 22nd in 1997. A 14-hour whirlwind tour of Sarajevo by…
– KBLA – Humble Harve – December 17, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s December 1966. You have this band; The Bow-Tiks. You’ve been practicing ever since you got your bass last Christmas. There’s six of you. Three…
– NBC Radio Nightline – December 17, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Kittyhawk, North Carolina – December 17, 1903, and the first successful flight by The Wright Brothers, who pioneered aviation and forever changed the course of history.…
– December 10, 1941 – News – bulletins – commentary – NBC Networks – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 10, 1941 – the war had entered its 2nd official day, the 3rd since the attack on Pearl Harbor. In…
– Newsfront Interview with Lennon and McCartney – May 11, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Unlike the Billie Holiday interview I ran some time back, this interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney has been discovered recently and…
– President Truman Dedicates Everglades Park – December 6, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1947, in the midst of Post-War reconstruction and upheaval, President Truman dedicated the Everglades National Park, an immense area of land…
– Debate On Algeria conflict – The Nations Future – December 3, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The conflict in Algeria. The war for independence which lasted throughout the 1950s and up until 1962 was costly and bloody.…
– CBS World News Roundup – December 3, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hearing this newscast today, you would think the Cyanide gas leak at the Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal India was not serious. But the fact…