April 17, 2006 – CBS Weekend Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 17, 2006 – A Sunday 11 years ago. And a day to look back at the events of the week. On this particular week it was the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, accused conspirator in the deadly
April 13, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 13, 1995 – Another day in the infamous OJ Simpson “Trial of the Century“. This time it was the jury acting up. Dismissed Juror Jeanette Harris told reporters that the sequestered OJ Simpson Jury is
April 11, 1948 – Clifton Utley Commentary – Postwar Europe – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Strange to think, we were less than three years out of one World War and we were in danger of getting involved in another one. This one was over hearts and minds, of sorts.
Dawn Of The Replicants – John Peel Session – August 12, 1997 + Rule The Roost 1999 – BBC Radio 1 – Dawn Of The Replicants to end the week. A band you could consider criminally overlooked, but since they are still very much together, the jury is still out
April 6, 1989 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 6, 1989 – As waves of Glasnost descended over London and the Cold War continued its thaw, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in London for talks with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. With smiles all
Essential Logic – in session for John Peel – Feb. 6, 1979 – BBC Radio 1 – Essential Logic tonight, featuring former X-Ray Spex saxophonist Lora Logic. This was the band she formed just after leaving Spex in 1978 and this is their first and only session listed as Essential
March 27, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 27, 1990 – the continuing story of breakaway republics from the Soviet Union. This time it was Lithuania – and this time Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev decided to play hardball. He sent his troops after
Dave Brubeck Quartet – Live at Juan les Pines Festival, Antibes – July 22, 1967 – Radio France – Dave Brubeck Quartet this weekend. The quartet that formed a first impression of Modern Jazz on a lot of non-Jazz people in the formative period of the mid-late 1950s. And their
March 1938, News and commentary from Radio Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 1938, almost 20 years after the end of World War 1, the air was looking unsettled in Eastern Europe and, once again the threat of war was looming. This time it was over Nazi German
March 21, 1962 – President Kennedy Press Conference #28 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 21, 1962 – On this day, President Kennedy held his 28th Press conference since taking off in January of 1961. He discusses the Space program, Cuba, the United Nations and the NATO alliance. Here’s
