Category Tabloid Journalism

Love

Love In America 1955 – Past Daily Evening Gallimaufry

– Love In America – Conversation 1955 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Love in America in 1955. It didn’t seem like such a hot-button topic, but people were starting to question things; the status quo, the…

Anita Hill - Clarence Thomas Hearings 1991

October 10, 1991 -Anita Hill Goes To The Hill – The Ever-present Stain Of Harrassment

– October 10, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 10, 1991 – and the atmosphere around Capitol Hill was going to get very thick with outrage. Days after revelations that Supreme Court nominee…

Censorship: 1957 – Past Daily Reference Room

– The Open Mind – Book Censorship – Feb. 24, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the prevalent memories of the “carefree” 1950s was the preoccupation much of our society had with reading material deemed obscene,and the…

Rock Hudson - Doris Day

AIDS Comes To Hollywood – Rock Hudson – October 2, 1985

– CBS News Reports and The World Tonight – October 2, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day 38 years ago was sad and sobering. On October 2nd 1985, actor and Hollywood icon Rock Hudson, who…

Jimi Hendrix – September 18, 1970

NBC Nightly News – September 18, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 53 years ago today, the music world suffered a devastating loss – it would be one of three to go that year, and their passings signified the…

‘I Have Never Been A Quitter’ – Nixon Resigns – August 8, 1974

– News Reports and Nixon Resignation Address – August 8, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection.- Forty-nine years ago today, everything stopped and all eyes were on Washington. After days and weeks of speculation and the virtual tornado of rumors…

Caryl Chessman

The Apple-Green Chamber: The Execution Of Caryl Chessman – May 2, 1960

– Caryl Chessman Execution reports and bulletins – May1-2, 1960 – Various Los Angeles Stations + Voice Of America Shortwave News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 2, 1960, the day a 12 year odyssey came to an end.…

March 29, 1953

Cold War Muckraking – Korea – The Kremlin And Frank Costello – March 29, 1953

March 29, 1953 – ABC Radio – Drew Pearson News and Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 29, 1953 – An otherwise typical Cold War day in March – news regarding surprise moves from the Kremlin regarding the…