[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”16533″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 21, 1959 – Hawaii Statehood Special Report – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] After years of lobbying and decades of waiting, President Eisenhower finally made it official – Hawaii became the 50th state of the Union. The signing ceremony was brief,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Coup in Russia – CBS Radio/BBC World Service – August 20, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection On this August 20th in 1991, Russian history would stage a repeat of 1964. In that year, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev was overthrown in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News – reports on Peekskill riots – August 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Maybe it’s Summer. Maybe it’s August. But the amount of rage and mayhem taking place during this particular month gives one pause, to say the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Voices and Events – Week ending August 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection And sometimes Summer isn’t necessarily violent or simmering or even contentious. This particular August 14th, 65 years ago was just that; a typical August
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Lauren Bacall – Interviewed by Jeremy Issacs – March 20, 1995 – BBC I will admit, this has been a terrible week. We’ve lost two icons in as many days. Though one was sudden and shocking, the other is the end
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC Home And Overseas Service – Address by Prime Minister Clement Atlee – August 10, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the end of World War 2 came the beginning of the economic and social crisis that gripped, not only
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”16303″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 11, 1947 – Cedric Foster News And Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] The big news for this August 11th in 1947 was the abrupt ending of the Senate Sub-committee Hearings on the wartime contracts of Howard Hughes. The investigation as to where
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC/WOR – Dave Driscoll Report from London – August 2, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The post-World War 2 period is always fascinating for a lot of reasons; not the least being the slow renewal that took place throughout all
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Colin Edwards interviews a Spokesman for Al-Fatah – circa 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In looking for as many historic aspects to this current state of conflict as possible, I ran across this rare interview, conducted by historian and journalist
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio News – July 24, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection On this July 24th in 1994, news was about the U.S. mission to send relief and supplies to the refugees of the Rwandan genocide, who fled to camps in
