"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
May 10, 1981 – CBS News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 10, 1981 – Big news from France this day. As polls closed and results were being tallied, Socialist candidate for President Francois Mitterrand was emerging the winner. Elected with Communist support, Mitterrand would be...
The Fourth Amendment – The American Forum Of The Air – April 15, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Fourth Amendment – in case you forgot: The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and...
March 26, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 26, 1942 – News from all the fighting fronts throughout the world this day. More calls for opening a second front – this time from Russia, as Soviet troops launched a counteroffensive, pushing German troops...
Adlai Stevenson – Address To Florida Democratic National Committee Dinner – March 6, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It seems ironic in some ways and prophetic in others to listen to this address from Former Illinois Governor and two-time Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson, on this day in 1954....
February 21, 1978 – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 21, 1978 – Another strike, another shutdown. This time, the Coal Miners. Beginning in December of 1977 and with seemingly no end in sight, President Carter went to Capitol Hill and met with Congressional leaders in...
February 2, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 2, 1980 – In the midst of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, the turn of events in Iran and the taking of 52 American Embassy employees hostage, it was a day of fast moving news....
NPR – National Town Meeting – Appraising The Washington Press Corps – Sept. 17, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Washington Press Corps; that group of members of the Radio-Television-Print Media whose main job it is to cover the goings on in The White House and on Capitol...
Blink 182 – In session at The BBC – 2000 – BBC Radio 1 – Jumping into Hump Day with a West Coast band doing a BBC session in 2000. Blink 182 are from Poway California, a little over 2 hour drive from L.A. to San Diego. They got started...
January 10, 1973 – NBC News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 10, 1973 – The Watergate bugging case resurfaced this day with a surprise. E. Howard Hunt, former employee of the White House, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, burglary and eavesdropping. The government said it was willing...
September 29, 1973 – Not enough we had Nixon and Watergate to weather through, we now had a scandal involving vice-President Spiro Agnew, which was not going to go away anytime soon. Seems the issue stemmed from his time as Governor of Maryland, prior to his selection by then-candidate Nixon...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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