January 12, 1942 – Radio Tokyo English Service – News broadcasts – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 12, 1942 – News from Radio Tokyo. Chances are, if you were around and at home during the war years you may have missed hearing these broadcasts completely, unless you had a
Recovering from a bad case of the Flu, President Roosevelt delivered the 1944 State of The Union address from the Oval Office, rather than in a Joint Session of Congress. The war had been going on for 3 years and the tide was turning in the Allies favor. It was
January 9, 1942 – News From Radio China – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The Battle of Wuhan, popularly known to the Chinese as the Defense of Wuhan, and to the Japanese as the Capture of Wuhan, was a large-scale battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Engagements took place across vast
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[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6144″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 21, 1939 – Guy Savage News – Mutual – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Despite news earlier in the week of the sinking of the German Battleship Admiral Graf Spee, Germany was celebrating Christmas, this week in 1939, with a shipment of some 1
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”18599″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 18, 1939 – News – Mutual Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this day in 1939 had to do with the sudden scuttling and sinking of the German Battleship Graf Spee, after an intense sea battle off the Uruguayan coast. The
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”11513″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 13, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] It was now a World War, this December 14th in 1941. America was busy gearing up for what would be a long haul. Cities were routinely going through
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”24804″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 9, 1947 – News Of The World – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Not very much means a whole lot: Become a Patron! December 9th in 1947 – Post-War discontent, Cold War jitters and the slow, painful process of getting a
News reports via Mutual Broadcasting System – December 7, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy-two years on, the event which triggered our involvement in World War 2 is getting further and further from the collective memory. Much the same way the beginning of America‘s involvement in World War 1
René Amengual – Preludio – NBC Studio Orchestra – Joseph Stulpak, cond. June 24, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Chipping in really helps: Become a Patron! Mid-twentieth century music from Chile this week, via composer, pianist and educator René Amengual in a rare performance of his Preludio for Orchestra,
