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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– CBS Hourly News – June 17, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day, at least as far as the U.S. was concerned, centered around a hostage drama unfolding at Beirut Airport. Members of a Shi’ite…
– 30 Seconds To Mars – Live at 3FM (VPRO, The Netherlands) – 2010 – Over to The Netherlands this morning for a live session by 30 Seconds To Mars, from the 3FM program That’s Live! from 2010. A band…
Further evidence that history on any particular day isn’t about one earth-shifting event, but a series of seemingly inconsequential ones that creep up from time to time and take center stage without anybody looking. On this June 4th in 1961…
Become a Subscriber/Patron/Member: Become a Patron! NBC Radio – News On The Hour- May 1, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this First day of May in 1961 was probably more ominous in the long-run for events…
Become a member – become a subscriber – Become curious: Become a Patron! – April 15, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Busy day in space, April 15, 1985. The Shuttle Discovery crew was…
On April 24, 1970 Communist China announced its entry into the space age with a 380-pound satellite broadcasting a revolutionary anthem titled “The East is Red” to a world wondering what military use Peking would make of its leap into…
NBC News on The Hour + Eisenhower visits India News Special – Dec. 11, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Arriving in India as part of his whirlwind tour of 11 countries in 11 days, President Eisenhower landed in…
– Launch of Gemini 7 – Dec. 4, 1965 – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1965 marked the launch of Gemini 7 in what would be the longest manned space flight in U.S. history…
– JFK Remarks on Space Program – Sept. 12, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With a pledge to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade, President Kennedy took a keen interest in the…
July 20, 1969 -Yep, they did it. Landed on the Moon and now they’re walking on it. You never thought for a second they would ever do that in your lifetime. The Moon was this big romantic ball of light…