"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
With no end in sight and protests continuing and becoming more violent, the situation in Iran on this day in 1979 was anything but resolved. The Pro and Anti-Shah factions were battling it out in the streets of Tehran and it was only escalating with each passing day. As of...
Try as they might to gloss over the jaundiced underpinnings, the pundits of mainstream media were busily painting smiley-faces on the end of 1993 and the start of 1994, this January 2nd. Weather was the big news, as always, for the end of one year and the beginning of another....
As the newscast so aptly put it – a month earlier, everyone on Capitol Hill assumed NAFTA was dead. But on this November 18th in 1993 the White House was celebrated over what many considered to be a landslide victory for President Clinton. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)...
May 1952 – CBS Radio: The People Act: Migrant workers and families in San Joaquin Valley – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Before the age of tape recording, the only method of producing a documentary was either by a cumbersome disc-cutting machine, an undependable wire recorder or making it all up...
Violet Archer – Sonatine Number 2 for Piano – Ross Platt, Piano – CBC Transcription service – 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A name which may not be as familiar in the U.S. as it is in Canada, Violet Archer was one to most prolific and celebrated figures...
Trio Janitzio – 1. Nunca Jamas 2. Mi Ultimo Fracaso – Musart M-1222 (circa 1957) – Musart Records – When I resurrected the Nights At The Round Table feature on Past Daily, it gave me an opportunity to dig through the many thousands of 78 rpm records that I haven’t...
Rollingwood USA – KCBS-San Francisco – March 3, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Rollingwood, California – a suburb just south of San Francisco near Richmond, became the focal point of a debate on racial discrimination and violence in the early 1950s on the West Coast. While the issues...
February 22, 1976 – The World This Week – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 22, 1976 – A busy week in the world. On February 21st, former President Nixon returned to China, this time as a private citizen, making his first public appearance in some...
CBS Radio: Mexican-Americans – The People Act – circa 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Given the highly-charged nature of this years election – the question of Immigration and Immigrants in general seems to have taken center-stage – or at least vying for center stage, amidst the flood of other...
April 4, 1944 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 4, 1944 – News of raids on Japanese held islands in the South Pacific were finally being reported, with considerable damage to Japanese ships and ports. Allied losses were reported to be 27 American fighters....
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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