"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– News for the Week of June 27, 1973 – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the bombs were falling in the hearing room on Capitol Hill, over the latest harrowing disclosures by former Nixon…
– ABC Radio – Voices In The Headlines – June 26, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The week of June 26th in 1966 pretty much epitomized the tone of the 60s; contentious, ironic and questioning. Beginning with the…
– ABC Headline News – June 23, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A lot of Labor news this June 23rd in 1947. Starting with the override of President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley bill, the Senate voted to…
– Daniel Ellsberg – Interview from The Today Show – July 2, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Editors Note: Hearing the news today of the death of Daniel Ellsberg at the age of 92, it occurred to…
Cited in Life Magazine as one of the most influential movements of the 20th Century, the movement that gave birth to the concept of the 12-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous got its start on June 10th 1935. Not without its detractors,…
– Newsfront – The Future of Cable TV – Dec. 16, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Difficult to imagine now, but in 1968 there was talk about Cable TV coming into our lives – and we weren’t quite…
– June 9, 1940 – WJR A Reporter Speaks: News With Jack King – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 9,1940 – news for this day in history was about the war in Europe and German advances into France, with…
– CBS News – June 8, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1978 was an interesting one if you lived in California. The Jarvis-Gann Initiative, or Prop 13 was passed by a landslide vote in the…
– June 7, 1950 – Report From Tokyo – Robert Martin, CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 7, 1950 – Coming up on 5 years since American forces began occupying Japan. Five years since Gen. MacArthur took…
– June 6, 1944 – Continuous news broadcasts and bulletins – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 6, 1944 – A day etched in stone in most history books – the turning point of World War 2. Whether you remembered…