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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– February 12, 2002 – NPR News – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12, 2002 – A day which would sound all-too familiar for the months and years ahead. A heightened state of alert, based…
We’re here because you are: Become a Patron! The search for Osama bin Laden may have ended this day when word came that a CIA drone, equipped with missile fired on a group of suspected Al Qaeda officials, “killing them…
– January 18, 1987 – CBS News on The hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 18, 1987 – a day of cautious diplomacy. News from West Germany that suspected 22-year old Palestinian terrorist Muhammed Ali Hamedi was scheduled…
– December 22, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 22, 1988 – Pan Am flight 103 bound for New York, exploded and rained burning debris down on the Scottish village of Lockerbee, killing…
Squeeze – In Concert at Oxford Polytechnic – Recorded by BBC Radio 1 for In Concert series – 1981 – BBC Radio 1 Squeeze to kick off this rather hair-raising week. In concert from Oxford Polytechnic and recorded by BBC…
October 24, 1983 – Beirut Bombing aftermath – President Reagan Press Conference – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 24, 1983 – The aftermath of the bombing of Marine Barracks and a French Army Command Post…
-Story Behind The Headlines – Palestine And The UN – Sept. 14, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – “Had we known then what we know now . . . . .” – I’m sure that mantra has been said…
– NPR – Options – International Terrorism: A New Mode of Conflict – Dec. 2, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Forty-six years ago, the concept of International Terrorism seemed new and remote. The idea of America being attacked…
– CBS World News Roundup – September 19, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This September 19th in 1995 had a lot to do with still-at-large domestic terrorist The Unabomber and his demand to publish a 35,000 word manifesto…
– September 11-12, 2001 – NPR Continuing Coverage – 11 pm – 1 am (PDT) – September 11-12, 2001 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this day in 2001, it seemed as though everyone knew someone who was either…