Tag Franklin D. Roosevelt

Henry Wallace Has A Word Or Two About America – October 4, 1948

– Henry Wallace Campaign Address – October 4, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October of 1948, aside from everything else going on in the world, was also a Presidential campaign month. The Democrats had Harry Truman running for…

Paris Calls It Quits – France Surrenders – June 20, 1940

Paris - June 1940

– News for June 20, 1940 – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this June 20th in 1940 was not the most optimistic, especially if you were around Paris at the time. Word from the government, relocated…

United Nations: Laying The Groundwork – San Francisco Conference Opens – April 25, 1945

The opening day of the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, this April 25th in 1945. Within days of the death of FDR and within days before the eventual collapse of  Nazi Germany, the United Nations was formed out of…

Funeral For FDR – The Death Of A President – April 14, 1945

FDR Funeral

– FDR Funeral (recap) – April 14, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day 78 years ago, the country was in mourning as it paid its last respects to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had died two days…

War On All Fronts – On The Third Anniversary, An Earthquake – December 7, 1944

On this day in 1944 it was the third anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the event that got the U.S. involved in World War 2. So on December 7, 1944 war was raging on all fronts, along with…