Gloria Steinem Interview – Oct. 25, 1970 Note: I originally ran this post in 2012 – the world has changed, even in the years since then. But Gloria Steinem has left us and we can’t forget what a pivotal figure she was as well as what a remarkable human
– ABC Radio – World News This Week – Week Ending October 20, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 45 years ago today, on October 20th 1980, we were looking back at the week with a mixture of anxiety, perplexity and amazement. The hostage drama with 50 Americans still
– BBC World Service – Newshour – January 29, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day, fifteen years ago, was about limits being reached, endurance vanished and nerves frayed out of existence. The War in Kosovo, indeed the strife enveloping the entire region formerly known as
– NPR: National Town Meeting – The Future Of The Family 1974 – December 8, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the offshoots to the Generation Gap of the 1960s was the changing family structure of the 1970s. Marriage was down, co-habitation was up. Single parent households
– First Tuesday: Domestic Spying – How Much Do They Know About You? – Dec. 1, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to many that our preoccupation with Domestic spying has been with us for a very long time. In 1970 it was
It’s hard to imagine something seemingly so logical was so vehemently opposed at the time, and still is for the most part. With the current state of things; the repeal of Roe v. Wade and all the implications that went with it. The looming presence of Project 2025 and the
Campaign 76 – second installment. This series of recordings take place between August 11 and 31, 1976 just prior to the Republican Convention. There is still squabbling between the Ford and Reagan camps over delegate count. The Equal Rights Amendment question becomes front and center with the Platform committee along
The end of World War 2 signified more than just the task of picking up pieces and putting them back together again, it signified a change in our attitudes towards race and gender, not to mention sweeping changes in the world regarding former colonies. Independence was by and large more
Re-cap of Days activities – Women’s Equality Day – August 26, 1970 – WBAI, New York – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day had to do with the celebration of Women’s Equality Day, and a flood of protest marches throughout the U.S. commemorating Women’s Right To Vote
– NBC Radio – Second Sunday – Marriage In The 70’s – July 8, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the sexual revolution of the 1960s settled in, the concept of Marriage in the 1970s took a big hit. Marriage, it was felt, was an antiquated institution that
