President Roosevelt – Addresses The Boy Scouts Of America – 27th Annual Jamboree – February 8, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A reminder of past Presidents and The Boy Scouts of America – this one, FDR broadcasts an invitation to the 27th annual Scout Jamboree in 1937: FDR:
June 8, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup + Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 8, 1982 – Busy news day in 1982. President Reagan addresses Parliament during this second trip to the UK. With Cold War issues, and Britain in the midst of the Falkland Islands
March 8, 1947 – NBC World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 8, 1947 – a day loaded with expectations. It was the opening of the Big Four Conference in Moscow; a conference that had a lot riding on it. People in the streets of the Russian
December 13, 1941 – News Reports of the day – NBC – Red And Blue Networks – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 13, 1941 – almost a week since the U.S. got involved in the War, it was now a World War. And suddenly, America was preoccupied with reports,
Leonard Cohen – In Session for John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – July 9, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – With the incredibly sad news earlier this evening, of the passing of legend and icon Leonard Cohen, it gives further evidence 2016 has been a terrible year for loss.
President Eisenhower addresses a Fundraiser held in Boston on September 21, 1953. With the current election season heading to the final few weeks, begin reminded that Political Parties in America have changed dramatically over the years; none probably as much as the GOP. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was a popular
August 5, 1990 – ABC Information Network News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 5, 1990 – unsettling news this day. The ongoing attempted overthrow in Liberia of the government of President Samuel Doe and the outbreak of Civil War, prompted President Bush to order the evacuation of all
August 4, 2000 – The CBS World News Roundup Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 4, 2000 – an election year, and the campaigns were off and running while the polls were tripping over each other to declare a frontrunner. With a boost of convention momentum and
Edmund Muskie was the Democratic vice-Presidential running mate of Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 election. In a year already battered by violence and loss, the fact that Democrats had lost their guiding light, Robert F. Kennedy, to an assassin’s bullet tossed the party into a state of disarray, bordering on
Adlai Stevenson – Tribute to former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt – 1964 Democratic Convention – August 27, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Adlai Stevenson, who was Presidential candidate for the Democrats in 1952 and 1956 and who became U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations up to the time of
