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Election ’64: Dancing With The One What Brung Ya – Barry Goldwater Gets The Nod And Runs With It – July 16, 1964

https://e2wyeghodh5.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/22120125/GOP-Convention-July-16-1964.mp3 – CBS News – Continuous coverage of Republican Convention – July 16, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – https://e2wyeghodh5.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/22120125/GOP-Convention-July-16-1964.mp3 – CBS News – Continuous Coverage of Republican Convention – July 16, 1964 -Part 2 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – https://e2wyeghodh5.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/22120117/Barry-Goldwater-1964-Republican-Convention-Speech-July-16-1964.mp3 – NBC News – Barry Goldwater –

LBJ Has A Word About China – July 12, 1966

On July 12, 1966 – With the Vietnam War pulling us deeper and deeper into the conflict-with-no-end, and Red China showing increasing antagonism toward the U.S. – and now that they had the Atomic Bomb – the balance of power in Southeast Asia was looking precarious, at least to our

Censorship: Broadcasting And The First Amendment – 1973 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room

– Discussion Regarding Broadcasting And The First Amendment – Jan. 30, 1973 – National Public Radio – Gordon Sound Sound Collection Coming during the time of the Supreme Court case known as The Seven Filthy Words, the issue of TV censorship in the area of news, the testing of boundaries

Palestine In Turmoil – Berlin Airlift Continues – Democratic Convention Preview – July 8, 1948

– July 8, 1948 – News Of The World – Palestine Crisis and more – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1948 had much to do with the crisis in Palestine, which had now blown up into full-scale war. UN mediators were scrambling for negotiations to

Girding Up For A Convention – Senator Everett Dirksen – July 5, 1964

– Senator Everett Dirksen on Issues and Answers – July 5, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Heading into the Republican Convention of 1964, this day 50 years ago American media was taken up with the subject of who would run against Lyndon Johnson from the Republican Party. The

A Word Or Two From Upton Sinclair – 1962 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room

– The Open Mind – interview with Upton Sinclair – May 2, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If Upton Sinclair were alive today it would be hard to say what his fate would be. At the turn of the 20th century, he was one of the most outspoken

President Johnson Signs The Civil Rights Bill – July 2, 1964

It works – it really does: Become a Patron! July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As part of the legacy of John F. Kennedy, who had proposed the Civil Rights Bill a year earlier, Johnson was committed to making the Act a

Dewey-Stassen Debate – An Exercise In Civility – May 17, 1948 – Past Daily Reference Room

– Dewey-Stassen Debate – 1948 Presidential Election; Republican Ticket – May 17, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When former New York Governor and Republican Presidential hopeful Thomas E-Dewey debated former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen during the Republican Presidential primaries of 1948, it was something new that hadn’t been

AIDS: Losing Entire Generations Of People – June 27, 2000

– CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – June 27, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this June 27th, twenty-four years ago was somber and pessimistic on a number of levels. The Global AIDS crisis had gone from bad to worse, with a bleak prognosis that entire

President Truman – The San Francisco Conference – June 26, 1945

– President Truman addresses closing of San Francisco Conference – June 26, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 79 years ago today, on June 26, 1945 there was cause for celebration. A cautious one, because we were still in the middle of the war in the Pacific, but an

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President Truman – The San Francisco Conference – June 26, 1945

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