"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– CBS Radio: This Was 1954 – Dec. 31, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Continuing the week’s worth of looking back – 1954 seems like as good a place as any to stop for an hour or so.…
However melancholy one gets over the Christmas season, there’s always the possibility of getting stuck in the middle of a war to consider. Not that we aren’t without one at the moment, or there haven’t been others since the early…
On this day in 1957 a brief respite from the onslaught of Christmas shopping and Christmas music to get a report from President Eisenhower on the goings-on at the NATO Summit conference in Paris. President Eisenhower: “For the fifth time…
A crackdown in Poland highlighted the news on this December 22nd in 1981. The Solidarity Movement, which was gaining momentum was abruptly halted when General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and cited a threatened intervention by Soviet forces to seize…
– CBS World News Roundup – December 22, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the years that was winding up on a fragile note, this particular December 22nd in 1997. A 14-hour whirlwind tour of Sarajevo by…
– NBC Radio – News Of The World – December 20, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News on this day in 1944 was sketchy at best. A new word crept into our lexicon: Bastogne. What passed Military censors,…
– NBC Radio Nightline – December 17, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Kittyhawk, North Carolina – December 17, 1903, and the first successful flight by The Wright Brothers, who pioneered aviation and forever changed the course of history.…
– First Week Of War – News and updates for December 15, 1941 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – First Week of War. December 15, 1941 – Still recounting the events of the previous Sunday and…
– Debate On Algeria conflict – The Nations Future – December 3, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The conflict in Algeria. The war for independence which lasted throughout the 1950s and up until 1962 was costly and bloody.…
– CBS World News Roundup – December 3, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hearing this newscast today, you would think the Cyanide gas leak at the Union Carbide Plant in Bhopal India was not serious. But the fact…