Category Vietnam War

A Word Or Two From Senator Wayne Morse – 1964 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio: From The Capitol – Sen. Wayne Morse – August 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Contrary to popular belief, our involvement in the Vietnam War wasn’t met with universal…

Selling A War: West Point And Vietnam – 1966 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio – The Thin Grey Line – June 8, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In 1966 the groundswell of discontent over U.S. involvement in Vietnam and Southeast Asia was…

Crooked Woven Webs – May 29, 1966

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Voices In The Headlines – May 29, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for the week, ending on this May 29th in 1966, was mostly about our inevitable plunge…

May 15, 1964 – Free-For-All Primaries – The Bobby Baker Affair

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio News via WXYZ-Detroit – May 15, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This day in May, 1964 was all about Primary fever and the race to the White House.…

Mayaguez incident

May 14, 1975 – An Incident Called Mayaguez.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”14445″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”May 14, 1975 – CBS News Special Report – President Ford Address on Mayaguez – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] In what has been termed the Last Official Battle of the Vietnam War, the incident…

Escalation In Vietnam – 1966 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio News – Vietnam 1966: A Year Of Escalation – Feb. 8, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection By 1966 our military commitment to Southeast Asia escalated rapidly past the…

A JFK Press Conference – May 8, 1963 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – President Kennedy News Conference – May 8, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A typical Press conference during the Kennedy Years, this one from May 8, 1963. JFK opens with a…

A Word Or Two From Robert F. Kennedy – Meet The Press 1968 – Past Daily Weekend Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Meet The Press – Robert F. Kennedy – March 17, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Certainly, 1968 ended a lot differently than it started out. Since it…

Allan Shivers And The World Of 1954 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio: Youth Wants To Know – Guest: Governor Allan Shivers (D-Tx) – April 28, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection At first glance, the year 1954 doesn’t seem like that…

Pete Seeger Has A Word Or Two About TV Censorship In 1967 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NET – Newsfront – Interview with Pete Seeger regarding Smothers Brothers censorship – Sept.13, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Certainly no stranger to controversy, Pete Seeger had more than his…