"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
March 11, 1975 – NBC Nightly News (audio) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 11, 1975. An uneasy day in Cambodia – a dramatic and sweeping shakeup in the government of Lon Nol which many believed was a move to get talks started with the Khmer Rouge. The shakeup...
February 25, 1940 -News and Commentary – William Hillman – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 25, 1940 – Coming up on day 176, a little less than six months of war. Attempts at achieving diplomatic peace have been fruitless, introducing the phrase Ashcan Diplomacy, since...
President Franklin Roosevelt – Address to the White House Correspondents Dinner – Feb. 12, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12 was Abraham Lincoln’s birthday – this address given by FDR on the occasion of Lincoln’s Birthday was also an assessment of the recently concluded Casablanca Conference. Here...
February 5, 1942 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 5, 1942 – depending on what part of the world you were in, your view of the War was varying differently, and the scale from optimism to downright pessimism was fluctuating...
January 12, 1951 – CBS Radio: Hear It Now With Edward R. Murrow – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 12, 1951 – The end of the second week of the new year. And judging by the reports, the year is starting out pretty the same as it ended 1950....
All Radio Networks – Command Performance – Dec. 24, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Christmas in Wartime. One of the notable aspects of World War 2, aside from it being the first war to be broadcast as extensively as it was, it was the War that took entertainment...
December 17, 1941 – NBC News Bulletins and Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 17, 1941 – Ten days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and it seemed like the entire world was engulfed in one form of war or another. Beginning with reports from Malaya over...
December 13, 1941 – NBC Red And Blue Networks News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection December 13, 1941- Six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the call to arms was louder than ever. Congress was getting ready to pass legislation enacting the Draft, asking all men between the...
Lauritz Melchior – Eva Le Gallienne – Frank Black With The NBC Orchestra – RCA Magic Key – April 17, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though you could consider it a one-hour commercial for RCA Victor records, phonographs and everything else RCA was involved in at the...
October 17, 1943 – CBS Radio: The World Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 17, 1943 – News on this day was almost completely taken over by news of the War and reports from the Fighting fronts. Allied forces were pushing ahead in Italy, scoring numerous victories in...
