– NBC News Of The World – April 16, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection- On this day, 80 years ago, America was still coming to grips with the loss of President Roosevelt. But there was still a war going on, and events were unfolding quickly. At airtime, the German
– CBS Radio – The Dulles Era – April 15, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On April 15, 1959 it was announced that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was stepping down. The terminal Cancer he’d been diagnosed with was taking its toll, and Dulles would be dead
– NPR: Options In Education – Illiteracy In America – 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. I guess, despite advances in technology, the age-old problem of Illiteracy continues at full gallop – always has/maybe always will. In 1974; forty years ago, the problem of illiteracy in our schools was acute.
– NBC Nightly News – March 27, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the odyssey of Vietnam wound up the last remaining weeks, the panic spread and the evacuations continued. This time is was Danang; second largest city behind Saigon and site of the largest U.S. airbase. With
– NBC Radio – News Of The World – March 26, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this March 26th in 1948 had much to do with the changing face of Europe and the ever-changing relations between East and West in the Post-War world after events in
March 20, 1975 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 20, 1975 – The subject was Vietnam on this day – not of American involvement or casualty numbers, but reports that the North Vietnamese army was on a steady, relentless advance South, and that South Vietnamese
– President Roosevelt Address to Congress – March 4, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – For those of you who may have forgotten, today is the birthday of the founding of Congress. And 76 years ago this day, President Roosevelt addressed Congress in observance of its 150th birthday: President
– CBS Radio – The World This Week – Feb. 18, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection.- Not a particularly good week for U.S. Foreign Policy – this week, ending this day in 1979. From anti-U.S. riots in Tehran, the murder of the U.S.Ambassador to Afghanistan murdered in Kabul. Mexico
– President Clinton – Address to Joint Session of Congress – Feb. 17, 1993 – NPR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A wave of optimism, this February 17th in 1993. President Clinton, addressing a Joint Session of Congress, presented his plan for building the economy, cutting waste and bringing
– America United Program – Should Federal Aid To Education Be Expanded? – May 29, 1949 – In 1949 access to a good, or even adequate education, depended on where you lived and what your economic circumstances were. There was no uniform policy on education where students in rural areas
