Cedric Foster – News And Comment – April 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1946 signified one year since the end of World War 2. In that year, the world went from a sigh of relief to an uneasy holding of breath, to glimpses of an uncertain future. In
G. Mennen Williams – Meet The Press – Discussion on Africa – March 28, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When Assistant Secretary Of State for African Affairs G. Mennen Williams returned from a month-long tour of sixteen African nations, he returned with a suitcase full of mixed messages.
November 22, 1962 – NBC Radio News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 22, 1962 – A busy Thanksgiving Day in 1962. On Capitol Hill, an uproar over the new Tax Reform package and fears it may be shot down. Congressional leaders were putting the brakes
November 7, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 7, 1991 – Busy news day. Starting with the NATO summit in Rome where President Bush voiced concerns over the formation of a joint European Army. The Joint Communique, worked out largely before Secretary General
Dr. Edward Teller – Meet The Press – September 1, 1963 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dr. Edward Teller – Father of the H-Bomb, being interview during this episode of the NBC series Meet The Press on his resistance to the Nuclear de-armament Treaty, then in
Ornette Coleman Quartet – live in Paris – Théatre du Palais de Chaillot – October 25, 1971 – Radio France – Ornette Coleman in concert this weekend. With his Quartet: Dewey Redman on Tenor sax and Clarinet, Charlie Haden on bass and Ed Blackwell on drums. Recorded at Théatre du
Army-McCarthy Hearings – April 27, 1954 – CBS Radio Recap of days proceedings – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The history of Senate Subcommittee hearings is a long and contentious one. Before the current fiasco we had Watergate. In the 1970s that pretty much defined what America was all about,
Tony Scott Quartet – live at Prague International Jazz Festival – Nov. 22, 1968 – Czech Radio Tony Scott this weekend. One of the more underrated and overlooked Jazz clarinetists, Scott was a major practitioner of Cool School Jazz. After achieving considerable notice via Downbeat magazine (awarding him Downbeat Critics
JFK Address to the Society Of Newspaper Editors – April 20, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – JFK addresses the Society of Newspaper Editors during their annual convention in Washington D.C. on April 20, 1961. The bulk of this address was regarding the recent failed invasion of Cuba by,
August 26, 1986 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 26, 30 years ago today – A seismic and Volcanic surprise in the African nation of Cameroon – one of the rare volcanos situation under a lake, erupted and spewed lethal carbon dioxide gas and
