Tag Human Rights

Amnesty

A Question Of Amnesty – A Subject Of Conscience – 1974 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room

Coffee works too: Become a Patron! – ABC News Inquiry – Amnesty: Can you go home again? – April 24, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The only thing more contentious about our involvement in the Vietnam War was…

Guatemala Votes

November 10, 1990 – America Fishes For Support – Guatemala Goes To The Polls – Keating Goes To Court

November 10, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 10, 1990 – busy news day, no shortage of cliff-hangers. Secretary of State James Baker met with French officials in an attempt to drum-up support…

Adlai Stevenson

Adlai Stevenson Tribute To Eleanor Roosevelt – 1964 Democratic Convention

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.…

‘Out Of The Closet And Into The Streets’ – Gay Liberation 1972 – Past Daily Reference Room

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – NET – The Gay Way – 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With all the news in recent months regarding Gay Marriage, the move in some states…

Eleanor Roosevelt Discusses Human Rights – 1950 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC – Today With Mrs. Roosevelt – Human Rights – May 14, 1950 In the early days of the United Nations, one of the tireless advocates for the cause of Human…

You WILL Get Together And Talk And You WILL Reach An Agreement . . . – January 29, 1999

Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC World Service – Newshour – January 29, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day, fifteen years ago, was about limits being reached, endurance vanished and nerves frayed…