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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– ABC Radio – Voices In The Headlines – June 26, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The week of June 26th in 1966 pretty much epitomized the tone of the 60s; contentious, ironic and questioning. Beginning with the…
– President Roosevelt Announces Fall of Rome – June 5, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Seventy-nine years ago today, before we were handed the momentous news of the Allied Invasion of France, we were given a glimpse of…
And a year to the day after the “official” VE Day end to the War in Europe, the creeping Cold War was making its presence known on this May 8th in 1946. As Europe continued to dig itself out of…
The opening day of the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, this April 25th in 1945. Within days of the death of FDR and within days before the eventual collapse of Nazi Germany, the United Nations was formed out of…
The news for this February 6th in 1951 began with the worst Passenger train disaster since 1918. The Pennsylvania Railroad 5:10 Commuter Express train The Broker hit a temporary spur and careened over an embankment, killing some 83 passengers (at…
– News of the Day – February 3, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1946 was about a glimpse of the future. Air travel was about to become a commonplace thing. The Lockheed Constellation…
– Results of first round of weapons inspections – United Nations – January 27, 2003 – During the inevitable windup to War, the UN sent weapons inspectors to Iraq in search of the much publicized “Weapon of mass destruction”. In…
– Y2K Reports – CBS World News Roundup – December 29, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Y2K and the coming catastrophe . . .so they said. That’s was what everyone was thinking about on this December 29th in…
News for Dec. 12, 1946 – NBC/KFI – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This day in December, 1946 was loaded with news of Union talks, threats and pickets. President Truman beginning the process of dismantling the maze of Government agencies set…
– Gemini 6 -aborted launch – CBS News – December 12, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gemini 6, which was originally scheduled for launch in October, was planned to last 46 hours and complete some 29 orbits as…