Category Violence

‘Hungary Calling’ – Land Grabs And Storm Clouds – March 21, 1939

– English News From Radio Budapest, Hungary – March 21, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – As the storm clouds rapidly gathered in Europe, the situation in the East was quickly developing into a hotspot. The question of Hungary…

Jitters And Apprehension: The View Of Europe From London – February 21, 1938

– Mutual – John Steele, Reporting From London – Feb. 21, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – 1938 started out with War jitters. With the German issues over the situation in Austria and a general purge of Hitler‘s Generals.…

Holocaust Remembrance: The Burning Of A Nightmare – Demolition Of Belsen – May 21, 1945 –

BBC World Service – London Column – May 23, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the War in Europe ended, the horrors and atrocities of that war were coming to the surface in grim and graphic detail. Some…

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Congress: The Youthquake – January 16, 1975

– NBC Nightly News – January 16, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this day in 1975, something was happening in Congress that hadn’t happened in living memory; rank and file Democrats voted to oust some of the…

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Dr. Martin Luther King – Meet The Press – 1960 – Past Daily Reference Room – Birthday Edition

– NBC Radio – Meet The Press – Guest: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King  – April 17, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In  honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Birthday today, I unearthed this 1960 appearance on Meet…

Baghdad Gaslights – A Plague Of Clipboards And Mom-Jeans – January 13, 1998

– Newshour – January 13, 1998 – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 13, 1998 was a day mostly consumed with reports of on-again-off-again UN weapons inspections going on in Baghdad. Today it was off-again, owing…

Violence In America: Eternally Wrung Hands – January 9, 1994

ABC World News This Week – January 9, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In a week that seemed more violent than most, January 9th, 1994 summed up the mood of dismay, frustration and helplessness many were feeling twenty…

Warsaw: Solidarity In The Balance – December 14, 1981

– News for December 14, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1981 had to do with the growing protest movement in Poland known as Solidarity. Begun as a Dock Workers strike in the Port…

Post-War Europe – Foreign Ministers Conference – People Behaving Badly – December 13, 1947 –

– News for Dec. 13, 1947- Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day was dominated by the goings on in Europe. Primarily over the Foreign Ministers Conference in London, which wasn’t going as well as expected. But also,…