Gemini 7 Launches Into Space – December 4, 1965
– Launch of Gemini 7 – Dec. 4, 1965 – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1965 marked the launch of Gemini 7 in what would be the longest manned space flight in U.S. history…
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Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Tag Space Race
The Right To Knowledge – Eisenhower Address At Columbia University Bicentennial Dinner – May 31, 1954
Maybe the Cold War had something to do with it. The Space Race and the dawn of New Technology, but in 1954 one of the things consistently stressed by President Eisenhower throughout much of his Presidency was the crucial role…
A Matter Of Education – A Question Of Our Place In The World – 1955 – Past Daily Reference Room
State of Education – Franco-American relations – Listen To Washington – February 15, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1955 we were in the middle of what became known as the Post-War Baby Boom. Kids born after 1945…
20th Century Nomads – 1959 – Past Daily Reference Room
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 20th Century Nomads – 1959 There was a time, if you lived in Los Angeles, that you would invariably say you actually weren’t born in Los Angeles, but born somewhere, most likely the…