"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– The Open Mind – Book Censorship – Feb. 24, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the prevalent memories of the “carefree” 1950s was the preoccupation much of our society had with reading material deemed obscene,and the…
– Henry Wallace Campaign Address – October 4, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October of 1948, aside from everything else going on in the world, was also a Presidential campaign month. The Democrats had Harry Truman running for…
ABC Radio: Baukhage Talking – news for October 3, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A nervous October day in 1949. News of China – strikes dragging on, news of a creeping paranoia over Communists, news of Capitol Hill gamesmanship.…
– CBS News Reports and The World Tonight – October 2, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day 38 years ago was sad and sobering. On October 2nd 1985, actor and Hollywood icon Rock Hudson, who…
– September 29, 1940 – Sigrid Schultz reporting from Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 29, 1940 – while the elation over this newly formed Axis was continuing, the war was going on without stop. Bombing raids continued…
– September 28, 1996 – NPR – Weekend Edition News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 28, 1996 – it was billed as the most contentious Congress in recent history. The 104th Congress was about to hit the history…
– News Of The World – September 22, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – First day of Fall, 1948. Election season was in full-swing. So was the Berlin crisis. So was the Cold War. In Britain, Foreign Secretary Ernest…
Radio Paris – An Address by Prime Minister Edouard Daladier – September 21, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection- The French Premier Edouard Daladier in a world broadcast declared France would fight until “complete victory” crushed Hitler and Germany’s dream…
– CBS World News Roundup – September 19, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This September 19th in 1995 had a lot to do with still-at-large domestic terrorist The Unabomber and his demand to publish a 35,000 word manifesto…
NBC Nightly News – September 18, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 53 years ago today, the music world suffered a devastating loss – it would be one of three to go that year, and their passings signified the…