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. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – June 16, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this June 16th in 2000 had a lot to do with lax security and rising gas prices. The two missing Hard drives...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Atlanter, in concert at Øya festival, Norway – August 8, 2013 – NRK Radio Rock Without Borders Week continues with a concert by the Norwegian Alt and Desert Blues-inspired Atlanter, in concert during this years Øya Festival on August 8th. Describing...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Barbara Tuchman address at UC Berkeley – NPR Options – July 22, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection It’s always an interesting idea to consider; how will history judge what is going on now in the grand scheme of things? Will...
A week where the vagaries of Human Nature went haywire, this September 10th in 1949. Starting with news of a deadly mass shooting in Camden New Jersey. The lone gunman, Howard Unruh, claiming people were saying bad things about his character, went on a shooting rampage, indiscriminately killing some 13...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Our Foreign Policy – The Marshall Plan – September 6, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The news on this day in September of 1947 found the world . . .pretty much as usual, sliding into a state of chaos. The...
Click here for Audio Player – News for September 3, 1974 – NBC Nightly News (Audio) News on this September 3rd in 1974 was still about Watergate and the fallout associated with President Nixon‘s resignation. On this day it was about former Watergate figure John Dean, sentenced to prison for...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS Radio – Face The Nation + Hourly News – August 21, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A day of stark contrasts from opposite sides of the world, this August 21st in 1983. At home, attention was on Capitol Hill and...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – President Roosevelt signs The Social Security Act of 1935 – August 14, 1935 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since it’s been a bone of contention and the target of avid attempts at dismantling it, here’s a reminder of what all the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Pond live at Amplifier club, Perth – April 23, 2010 – club soundboard If you’ve been staying on top of the current flood of bands coming over from Australia of late, you’ll notice a number of them have one common denominator;...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS World New Roundup – August 7, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News on this August 7th in 1945 was about the event that had taken place less than 24 hours earlier in the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The Atomic Bomb,...
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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