"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
NBC Nightly News – May 4, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Many have said the events outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago started the shift in national opinion of the War in Vietnam. The events at Kent State…
– Pussy Riot – Putin zazhigayet kostry – August 2012 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Pussy Riot – remember them? The Russian Punk band/Social movement who grabbed the world’s attention with a little ditty entitled Putin zazhigayet kostry (Putin…
– The World This Week – CBS Radio – January 25, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 25, 1976 – and the end of another week of wild contrasts. The week began with a gloomy assessment of the…
With the sad news earlier today of the passing of talk show host and personality Michael Jackson, who dominated in the airwaves in Los Angeles in the 1960’s and 70s I am running this post, which originally ran in 2014.…
– CBS Radio: This Was 1954 – Dec. 31, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Continuing the week’s worth of looking back – 1954 seems like as good a place as any to stop for an hour or so.…
– A Christmas Sing With Bing – December 24, 1956 – CBS Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Bing Crosby and Christmas – for decades it was an institution. You couldn’t have one without the other. And every…
– NBC Radio Nightline – December 17, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Kittyhawk, North Carolina – December 17, 1903, and the first successful flight by The Wright Brothers, who pioneered aviation and forever changed the course of history.…
– Newsfront Interview with Lennon and McCartney – May 11, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Unlike the Billie Holiday interview I ran some time back, this interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney has been discovered recently and…
– December 8, 1941 – News and bulletins of the day – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 8, 1941 – the day after Infamy, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. News was moving quickly and while most radio outlets…
FCC Chairman Frank McNinch address – Nov. 12, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Bearing in mind that Radio was the modern technological advance in 1938, Television was only in experimental stages, and computers weren’t even considered, there was a…