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Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News Of The World – May 23, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this May 23rd, sixty-nine years ago, in 1945 had much to do with the abrupt resignation of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the call for...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – News of the World – February 20, 1942 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this February 20th, 72 years ago was ominous and hopeful, simultaneously. The ominous news was the impending invasion of Darwin, in northern...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Blue Network – News Of The World – November 13, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Depending on where you were getting your news from on this November 13th in 1941 was how the world, and the war, was going....
Click on the link here for audio player: News for August 15, 1941 It was finally disclosed on this day in 1941 that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had concluded a three day summit meeting with President Roosevelt “somewhere at sea” around the previous Sunday to discuss the War in...
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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