"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– JFK Press Conference – March 14, 1962 – On this day in 1962, President Kennedy delivered his 27th News conference. He opened by reading a portion of a letter to Secretary of State Dean Rusk regarding the upcoming disarmament…
– March 10, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 10, 1990 – The continuing and developing story of the breakaway Soviet republics got its latest chapter in the form of Lithuania, whose Parliament…
– Pussy Riot – Putin zazhigayet kostry – August 2012 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Pussy Riot – remember them? The Russian Punk band/Social movement who grabbed the world’s attention with a little ditty entitled Putin zazhigayet kostry (Putin…
February 25, 1979 – CBS Radio – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With grossly inflated casualty and capture claims coming from both sides, the war between China and Vietnam was heating up, this week in…
– CBS Radio – This Was 1955 – December 30, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Starting our look at year-ends gone by – here is what December 30th 1955 sounded like. Another set of notches in the Cold…
On this day in 1957 a brief respite from the onslaught of Christmas shopping and Christmas music to get a report from President Eisenhower on the goings-on at the NATO Summit conference in Paris. President Eisenhower: “For the fifth time…
– NBC Radio – Voices And Events – November 19, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The endless debate on Foreign Policy – where America stood in the world. The World in conflict once again – the Cold War…
Sec. of State James Byrnes – Report on Paris Peace Conference – Oct. 18, 1946 – As a harbinger of things to come, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes returned from the Big-3 Paris Peace Conference with a pessimistic outlook.…
– News for October 15, 1986 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in October of 1986 had to do with assessing the Summit between Reagan and Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland and the beginning of renewed talks…
For the seventh time since she took office four years earlier, Philippines President Corazon Aquino was faced with yet another military coup. From 1986 to 1990 numerous coup attempts were enacted on the Aquino administration and the new Philippine government.…