– NBC Blue Network – News Of The World – November 13, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Depending on where you were getting your news from on this November 13th in 1941 was how the world, and the war, was going. If you were in Britain, the heat
– WOR News – October 10, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the War over, and peace settling in, October 10th, 1945 was a day loaded with transition, and frustration, and a new set of concerns. Domestically, the adjustment to peacetime was slow. The legislation put in effect
Becoming a subscriber is easy: Become a Patron! – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 17, 1972 – News on George Wallace, who was victim of an assassination attempt only days earlier. Good news; Wallace won primaries in Michigan and Maryland. Bad news; no feeling in
– Pussy Riot – Putin zazhigayet kostry – August 2012 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Pussy Riot – remember them? The Russian Punk band/Social movement who grabbed the world’s attention with a little ditty entitled Putin zazhigayet kostry (Putin Lights Fires)? And subsequently landed two of the band members
– Radio Moscow – News from Moscow to America – March 7, 1947 – One of the constants during the Cold War period was the War of Words waged between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This broadcast, from Radio Moscow on March 7, 1947 is no different. Featuring news
Passing the hat: Become a Patron! – February 8, 1976 – The World This Week – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 8, 1976 – 48 years ago this week, news that a devastating earthquake hit Guatemala leaving (as of this newscast) some 12,000 dead and many
– Love In America – Conversation 1955 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Love in America in 1955. It didn’t seem like such a hot-button topic, but people were starting to question things; the status quo, the reason why some traditions were the way they were. In
– News for January 1, 2000 + review of 1999 – January 1, 2000 – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Y2K – all the doomsday scenarios; all the fear, paranoia and hoarding. When January 1, 2000 arrived, so did just another day. So the news for this
– December 29, 1981 – CBS News On The Hour + Spectrum Commentaries – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Poland in the news. This time with “official word” that order was restored, General Wozek Jaruzelski was still in charge and that the striking miners at the Pilast Mines had gone
– CBS World News Roundup – December 18, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It seems this news happen every few years. Another stalemate on Capitol Hill over a budget, another shutdown, another wave of hysteria. News for this December 18th in 1995 wasn’t any different. Congress failed to
