"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– News From Berlin – May 23, 1938 – Radio Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in May, 1938 comes by way of Berlin Radio, broadcasting the news in English. Reports claiming three more Czech…
– Albert Roussel – Bacchus et Ariane – Paris Conservatory, Andrè Cluytens, cond. – 1949 Besançon Festival – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Music from the 1949 Besançon Festival in France this week, featuring the legendary Paris Conservatoire…
– CBS Radio – The World This Week – Week ending May 19, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A rather violent week, the one ending May 19th, 1974. Capturing the majority of attention (at least in the U.S.)…
– CBS Radio – 9:00 Hourly News w/Richard C. Hottelet – May 16, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A day for squabbles and finger pointing, this 16th of May in 1983. Wall Street was reacting to Capitol Hill…
– Farmingdale Long Island – Eyewitness reports of First Air Raid Drill in U.S. – May 16, 1938 – WOR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With ominous war clouds gathering over Europe, the question of preparedness in America…
– NET – Newsfront – May 12, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the U.S. excursion into Cambodia, and the repercussions from that move still fresh in the minds of Americans on this May 12th in 1970,…
And a year to the day after the “official” VE Day end to the War in Europe, the creeping Cold War was making its presence known on this May 8th in 1946. As Europe continued to dig itself out of…
– CBS Radio Special Report: Alan Shepard Press Conference – May 8, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On May 5, 1961 America sent its first Astronaut into space. Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7, the first of the series…
– CBS World News Roundup – May 5, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this May 5th in 1979 had a lot to do with Jimmy Carter‘s whirlwind visit to Southern California. Since it was Cinco de…
– NBC Nightly News – May 4, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Days earlier, on May 1st 1970, President Nixon was asked about the wave of Campus protests to the American excursion into Cambodia. Referring to the students…