"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
July 20, 2007 – CBS Weekend Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 20, 2007 – Ten years ago – a war then too – an endless war. A war of insurgents and car bombs and raids. No sign of peace. And ten years later, the region is still...
January 4, 2007 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 4, 2007 – A historic day on Capitol Hill. For the first time in U.S. History, a Woman took the gavel as Speaker of The House. Nancy Pelosi, Representative from California, signaled a new era in...
The First Amendment and Broadcasting – Antonin Scalia – Eric Sevareid et al. – March 27, 1973 – NPR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The First Amendment and Broadcasting – in 1973, a hot button topic and one which further drove wedges between already fractured elements of our society....
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup + The World Tonight – May 29, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. News of assassination attempts, this May 29th in 1980. Civil Rights leader and Executive Director of The National Urban League...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Alabama USA – May 29, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection While most people are observing Martin Luther King’s Birthday, a lot of people have no idea why. Call it the deep, murky past – call it...
. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player (or download) – Lowell Thomas And The News – Nov. 7, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This is the week for Postmortems, it seems. This day, November 7th, was a day-after in the 1962 Mid-term election cycle. Not...
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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