– Voices And Events- week ending July 17, 1949 – NBC Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for the week, ending on July 17 in 1949 had much to do with plane crashes and turmoil. A plane crash over Bombay India claimed the lives of a group
– Andrew Young – Meet The Press- July 18, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No shortage of speculation on how the Black vote was going to influence the Presidential election in 1976. Ten years after the height of the Civil Rights struggle, and a shift of
– Sigrid Schulz – Report from Berlin – Mutual Broadcasting – July 14, 1940 – Since America wasn’t technically at war with Germany in 1940 – American correspondents were free to give nightly reports from Berlin, reporting the goings on – amid careful and thorough censorship by the German government.
– Adlai Stevenson Death Announcement – ABC Radio News – July 14, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The news came as quickly as death had come to Adlai Stevenson, former governor of Illinois, two-time Presidential candidate, UN Ambassador and eloquent statesman – collapsed on a sidewalk in
– NBC Nightly News – Huntley-Brinkley – July 13, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Rumors of peace-feelers, this July 13th in 1970. Soviet deputy Foreign Minister Nikolai Feryubin meeting with India’s Indira Gandhi over the possibilities of a Peace Conference over the war in Vietnam. Feryubin had just finished
– Arthur Lee and Love – In Session for BBC Radio 2 – July 1, 2004 – BBC Radio 2 – Taking a breather from festivals tonight. It seems only appropriate to run a session by the inimitable Arthur Lee and Love, recorded at BBC Radio 2 on July 1,
– John Frederick Peter – Quintet For Strings – Eastman Ensemble – Frederick Fennell, cond. – March 20, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Diving into early Americana this week – the music of German-American composer John Frederick Peter who settled in America in 1770 and are among the earliest
– Sonny Rollins Quintet – Live At The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – April 19, 1977 – NPR: Jazz Alive Series – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As long as we’re in a Festival mood this week, I thought I would offer a few well-chosen notes from our Official
– Harper’s Magazine: At Issue – Socialism vs. Liberalism – Michael Harrington – 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The word Socialism has been creeping into our national conversation a lot lately, along with a lot of opinions, conceptions and misconceptions as to what it is. In 1970, Socialism
– President Johnson Press Conference – July 10, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A surprise Press Conference, this July 10th in 1964. President Johnson used the time to discuss some upbeat economic news including news of Contract talks between labor and management in the Auto industry, as well as
