"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Pres. Johnson Address To Congress on Voting Rights Legislation – March 1965. In a stunning (although not completely surprising, considering the SCOTUS track record of late), decision regarding the question of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Eric Sevareid Commentary on Vietnam – June 21, 1966 On this day in 1966, mainstream media was still putting an upbeat face on the Vietnam War. Reports of flagging morale by…
News for this 10th of June in 1967 had a lot to do with the Middle East. Notably, the Israeli advance on Syria and the approach to Damascus. Cause for much concern in diplomatic circles. The Soviet Union decided it…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Note: This was originally posted on June 5, 2013 – still relevant today. Forty-eight years ago today, America was hanging on hourly reports from Good Samaritan Hospital over the condition…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for this day in June, 1987 was word of the passing of the legendary Andrès Segovia, whose masterful poetry of the guitar influenced entire generations of guitarists and lovers…
Not to be a pain or anything, but . . .Become a Patron! A Presidential Press Conference for this May 30th in 1968. President Johnson, mindful of his declaration in not seeking another term for the 1968 elections, was still…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Sixty years ago, almost to the day, America was muddling over the question “what’s happening to today’s youth?” – Crime was up, juvenile delinquency was up, unwanted pregnancies were up,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News on this day in 1958 had to do with the aftermath of the disastrous visit by vice-President Nixon to South America. In each of the stops on this State…
Become a Patron! Since most mainstream media will be focusing on the end of the War in Europe in 1945, May 7th also marks another anniversary; one that had far-reaching consequences during the years and decades directly following it. The…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”8157″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”May 6, 1981 – News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! Not so much a cause for alarm, an ominous glimpse of things to come or a cautionary tale, but rather a…