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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– CBS World News Roundup – April 11, 1987 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this particular day in 1987, much of the news was regarding an unfolding sex scandal at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. How this scandal…
Coffee goes great with everything: – NBC News – April 2, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It was smack in the middle of Primary Season, this April 2nd in 1980. With Carter landslides in the Wisconsin and Kansas…
It adds up, so subscribe: Become a Patron! – Radio Paris Shortwave – Radio Moscow Shortwave – News – March 20, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As tensions increased throughout Europe, this first day of Spring in 1939,…
– Operation Alert 1959 – Conelrad Emergency Broadcast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection If the Cold War period wasn’t frightening enough for the average person, with daily news reports of tensions and takeovers and thinly-veiled threats, there was the extra…
News on this March 14th in 1948 came by way of commentary on the Marshall Plan for reconstruction of Europe. Branded by some as an unwarranted blank check to the former European allies with no obligation to pay back, while…
– 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…
Costs a little, does a lot: Become a Patron! – March 5, 1945 – Secretary Of State Edward Stettinius – Address from Mexico City Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 5, 1945 – A significant day in history.…
We do coffee too: News for Week ending January 29, 1951 – Voices And Events – NBC Radio – News of this January 29th in 1951 began on an ominous note by way of 8th Army Headquarters in Korea when…
– 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…
NBC News on The Hour + Eisenhower visits India News Special – Dec. 11, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Arriving in India as part of his whirlwind tour of 11 countries in 11 days, President Eisenhower landed in…