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Living On The Edge: 1956 – Past Daily Reference Room

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7463″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”April 22, 1956 – The Great Challenge – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] By 1956 it would be pretty safe to say America was headed well into nervous breakdown territory. Everything was…

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October 8, 2020
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Detroit – City Of The Future In 1949 – October 7, 1949 – Past Daily Reference Room

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10484″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”October 8, 1949 – Report On America: Detroit – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] As a kid growing up in Detroit in the 1950s, I wasn’t really aware of how much Detroit…

gordonskene
October 7, 2020

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September 16, 1980 – Fly In The Ointment – John Anderson And The Third Party Question – Day 314 For Hostages

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10133″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 16, 1980 – ABC World News This Week (Sept. 14) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Hard to forget this week in September of 1980 was all about the Presidential Election campaign and the…

gordonskene
September 16, 2013
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September 10, 1949 – “Something Went Snap” – Mass Shooting In New Jersey – Throwing Rocks In Peekskill –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10038″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 10, 1949 – Voices And Events – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] A week where the vagaries of Human Nature went haywire, this September 10th in 1949. Starting with news of…

gordonskene
September 10, 2013

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August 15, 1969 – And While The Scent Of Incense And Patchouli Wafted In One Part Of The World – The Scent Of Teargas And Burning Tires Wafted In The Other –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”9617″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”News from KSRO – August 15, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! While the much-fabled Woodstock Festival was getting underway for its first day, the world was spinning wildly away…

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August 15, 2013

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August 13, 1965 – City On The Edge – A City Engulfed – Watts Riots –

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Watts Riot Coverage – KTLA-audio – August 13, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection If you were living in Los Angeles on this August 13th in 1965 you were no doubt…

gordonskene
August 13, 2013

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The Temptations – 1970 – Nights At The Roundtable

Click on the Link: The Temptations – Ball Of Confusion – 1970 Forty-two years ago The Temptations summed it all up with Ball Of Confusion. Forty-two years later, they’re still summing it up. The ball of confusion stays the same.…

gordonskene
July 21, 2012

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America: The Vision And The Violence – 1969 – Past Daily Reference Room

With the news beginning this morning, and the updated reports concerning the shootings at a movie theater in Aurora Colorado throughout the day, I’m reminded of how all-too-familiar this seems. How it has repeated over and over throughout the years.…

gordonskene
July 20, 2012

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Cities On The Edge – 1975

With the latest reports of several towns in California filing for bankruptcy, and the growing problem of cities in default nationwide, I was reminded of the last time such a wave occurred. The 1970’s were a particularly harrowing period for…

gordonskene
July 13, 2012

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