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May 12, 1974 – Issues And Answers: Barbara Jordan, Charles Rangel, Andrew Young – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 12, 1974 – a Sunday that year. And as with most all Sundays, the day for observing, speculating and recalling, and the day for Sunday Talk Shows. This one; ABC’s...
March 16, 1988 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 16, 1988 – A busy day if you lived in Central America. Starting with news from Honduras that an attack by Nicaraguan troops on Contra rebels inside Honduras was causing the White House...
Secretary of The Interior Harold Ickes Resignation Press Conference – Feb. 14, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Thinking back on Cabinet position resignations in the past, not a lot mired in scandal come to mind before the days of the Nixon Administration in the 70s. Although I’m sure...
Black Power – BBC Radio 1 Documentary – 2004 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1968 – the year things came to a head – the year of confrontation and questioning; the year it all changed. The Civil Rights struggle of the 1960s was continuing – coupled with social changes...
Phil Ochs – 1970 Greenpeace Concert – October 16, 1970 – Amchitka Phil Ochs to end the week and to begin the next one. Can’t think of a better voice of conscience than Phil Ochs right now – he was one of the most vocal opponents of the Vietnam War,...
January 24, 1958 – Dag Hammarskjold Nuclear Disarmament Talks – UN Radio Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 24, 1958 – the Cold War 50s and the United Nations was filled with anticipated Nuclear Disarmament talks. At the helm, and pleading the case for sanity in this new...
January 19, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup + reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 19, 1981 – The last full day in the White House for Jimmy Carter. And it was spent on pins and needles, waiting for word on the pending hostage release from Tehran on...
January 18, 1987 – CBS News on The hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 18, 1987 – a day of cautious diplomacy. News from West Germany that suspected 22-year old Palestinian terrorist Muhammed Ali Hamedi was scheduled to be freed. The U.S. wanted to extradite Hamedi back to...
President Eisenhower – Press Conference – May 31, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Presidential Press Conferences during the Eisenhower years. Continuing a look at Presidential press conferences from the past few decades, President Eisenhower during his two terms of office. 1955 put America right in the middle...
Congress And The CIA – National Town Meeting – November 30, 1974 – NPR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Central Intelligence Agency, long the shadowy figure in world affairs, it began in 1947 when President Truman signed The National Security Act into law. And since that time the...
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