"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– CBS Radio – Special Broadcast from Ie Shima Island – August 18, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the end of hostilities just days earlier on August 15th, the process of making the surrender official began. On…
Edward R. Murrow News with Larry Leseur – July 28, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The war in Korea was the main news of the day. North Korea was mounting an offensive all along the line separating North…
CBS World News Roundup – July 21, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day, 57 years ago saw an escalation of things. An escalation of the War in Vietnam and an escalation in the violence in reaction to…
– CBS Radio News Update on Korean Crisis – June 27, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the hours ticked by, after the initial reports of a “we’re not playing around” invasion of South Korea by North Korea,…
Report From The San Francisco Conference – June 16, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. With the San Francisco Conference just days away from closing, a charter was being drawn up for adoption, a new name was given and…
– June 7, 1947 – ABC Radio – News Of Tomorrow – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 7, 1947 – news for this day was about survival and about reconstruction. Secretary of State George Marshall was in Paris to…
– June 2, 1961 – JFK In Paris – reports – NBC News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 2, 1961 – It was the last day of a historic visit to France by President Kennedy and the First…
– ABC News Of Tomorrow – May 27, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Some people may find it strange and unbelievable that, as late as 1947 the subject of Lynching and introducing anti-Lynching Laws was still very much…
– NBC News Of The World – May 23, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this May 23rd 1945 had much to do with the abrupt resignation of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the call for Parliamentary…
– May 12, 1945 – Report From San Francisco – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the V-E Day celebrations died down, the grim reality of what was left of Europe now had to be addressed. The…