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The saga of Solidarity and the mass strikes in Poland continued and escalated, this December 18, 1981. Despite efforts at a crackdown and imposition of martial law, people hit the streets in the thousands to protest heavy-handed tactics of the police and military. Police responded by using rubber clubs and...
Subscribers can get this download for free: Become a Patron! Waking up to the news this morning in 1967 had much to do with the endless war of attrition in Vietnam. The ongoing battle, mounting casualties and airstrikes near the Marine outpost at Con Thien. The theory being to destroy...
April 18, 1956 – News Of The Day – Various newscasts – Mutual Broadcasting – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 18, 1956. If you were around on this day you would be hearing news that had a roughly familiar ring to it. Factions forwarding an agenda of Independence from...
Miles Davis Quintet – Live At Berliner Jazztage – November 7, 1969 – RBB Radio Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Miles Davis this Sunday. Playing favorites. Legends and important voices this weekend. And one of the most important of the 20th century was Miles Davis, no question. I...
March 23, 1941 -News Of The World: Sunday Edition – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 23, 1941 – An ominous day if you lived in the Balkans. Today was the day Demonstrations took over towns and cities all across Yugoslavia, protesting what was looking very...
March 16, 1946 – MBS – Frazier Hunt News and Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 16, 1946. – 7 months after the end of World War 2 and Labor continued to be an issue domestically and the beginnings of the Cold War was taking shape overseas, if...
Dean Rusk Press Conference – January 21, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the Vietnam war dragged on and casualty figures kept rising, public opinion was slowly turning against our escalation, and even those in the Military were questioning our methods and our reasons. Secretary of State Dean...
Happy Mondays – live at Le Truc, Lyon France – March 3, 1990 – Radio France International – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A taste of Happy Mondays this weekend. In concert from Lyon at Le Truc, recorded by Radio France International on March 3, 1990. One of the pivotal...
July 6, 1974 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 6, 1974 – Nixon and The Moscow Summit. A month before his unprecedented resignation, President Nixon went to Moscow to meet with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to discuss a range of issues...
Amber Arcades – in concert at Best Kept Secret 2017 – June 16, 2017 – VPRO/3VOOR12 Netherlands – Amber Arcades tonight. In concert from the Best Kept Secret Festival 2017, recorded earlier this month by VPRO in The Netherlands and broadcast by 3VOOR12–FM. Amber Arcades is no stranger to these...
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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