"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
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…
– NBC Nightly News – June 2, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With reports slow to come in, news regarding the massive earthquake hitting Peru two days earlier painted a grim picture, guaranteed to get grimmer as the…
– Ike & Tina Turner – Live At L’Olympia, Paris – January 30, 1971 – RTL – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ike & Tina Turner, live at the legendary Olympia in Paris from January 30, 1971. They always said…
– Tina Turner – Live At Park West, Chicago – August 17, 1984 – With the sad news today of the passing of the legendary Tine Turner, our year of loss in the music world is compounded. This post was…
– 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…