– Little Rock – Integration – Oct. 17, 1957 – Sixty-Six years ago, starting in September, the controversy and the battle began over Integration in public schools. Nowhere was it more contentious than in the South, where Federal troops were sent in to insure School Integration legislation was carried out.
ABC Radio: Baukhage Talking – news for October 3, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A nervous October day in 1949. News of China – strikes dragging on, news of a creeping paranoia over Communists, news of Capitol Hill gamesmanship. Starting off was news that Associate Justice William O. Douglas
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– America The Violent-1969 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Perhaps not as bad as it is now, but violence seems to be just as integral a part of American society as the automobile. The question has always been ‘why?’ and the hand-wringing and breast-beating comes with
– News for the Week of June 27, 1973 – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the bombs were falling in the hearing room on Capitol Hill, over the latest harrowing disclosures by former Nixon aide John Dean, bombs and distractions of another kind were
– June 19, 1968 – Coretta Scott King – Solidarity Day Address – Gordon Skene Sound Collection 1968 saw no end of turmoil and upheaval in the world. In the first six months alone there was the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.
– WOR – Martha Deane Pgm. N.Y. Teachers Strike – 1968 A reminder of Teachers’ strikes past – The New York City Teachers’ Strike of 1968 was a months-long, arduous and deeply dividing strike that dragged on for a total of 36 days between May and November of 1968. At
News And Comment for January 24, 1961 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Four days after his Inaugural and six days before his first State of The Union, President Kennedy was already presented with a full plate of crises, this January 24th in 1961. On January 21st, Kennedy’s
The Non-Conforming American – March 12, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – During the era of the 1950s a gradual, unmistakable undercurrent of social upheaval was starting to take place. Brought on largely by the Cold War, the threat of Nuclear annihilation , the stringent social mores and arch
– News for Dec. 13, 1947- Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day was dominated by the goings on in Europe. Primarily over the Foreign Ministers Conference in London, which wasn’t going as well as expected. But also, news of civil unrest throughout all of Europe brought on
