"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– September 8, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 8, 1987 – Summer vacation was over and the picket lines were forming in Chicago as negotiations between Teachers and the School District were…
– News from BBC World Service – Mutual Correspondent John Steele – Radio Paris English Service – September 4, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No sooner had war been declared than news of the sinking of an unarmed…
August 28th will mark the 60th anniversary of the legendary March on Washington. The largest Civil Rights demonstration of its kind up to this point, the march culminated in a day of speeches in front of the Lincoln Memorial and…
– News for August 25, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A momentous day in history with a lot going on seemingly everywhere, this August 25th in 1944. Word on the liberation of Paris, with a crazy mixture of…
– August 14, 1945 – Mutual – 12 Noon-2:00pm – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – NBC Radio – News – August 14, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this August 14th, 78 years ago, was like…
– CBS Radio – The World This Week – Week ending August 4, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A week of drama, the week ending this August 4th in 1973. Supreme Court challenges to the War in Cambodia,…
– News from Radio Moscow – August 3, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Forty-three years ago today, the Olympic games in Moscow came to an end. Since the U.S. and 65 other countries were boycotting the games, as…
– President Kennedy Press Conference – August 1, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A press conference by President Kennedy – given on August 1, 1963. Starting with the subject of Education – Kennedy addressed the growing number of…
– News Of The World – July 31, 1940 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 332 days since the outbreak of War in Europe. 332 days and the signs were all pointing to an imminent invasion…
– ABC World News This Week – Week Ending July 28, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 28th in 1991 was the end of a horrifying week. As news filtered out regarding the arrest of a seemingly innocuous…