"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– July 7, 1998 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 7, 1998, and the third return of the notorious Linda Tripp to the Grand Jury to lay out some 20 hours of taped phone…
– Democratic Convention Preview – NBC Radio Special – July 5, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sixty-three years ago this week, the Democrats got together in Los Angeles to select a standard-bearer. Odds-on favorite was Massachusetts Senator John…
– Sunoco Three-Star Extra with Lowell Thomas – July 3, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1947 had a lot to do with looking skyward. Reports from all over the country indicated sightings of brightly colored…
– News from KMPC-Los Angeles – June 30, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Not all the news that happened on this June 30th in 1968, but enough to keep you on your toes. During one of their hourly…
– 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…
– June 19, 1968 – Coretta Scott King – Solidarity Day Address – Gordon Skene Sound Collection 1968 saw no end of turmoil and upheaval in the world. In the first six months alone there was the Tet Offensive in…
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…