February 22, 1976 – The World This Week – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 22, 1976 – A busy week in the world. On February 21st, former President Nixon returned to China, this time as a private citizen, making his first public appearance in some
February 20, 2002 – BBC World Service – World Briefing – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 20, 2002 – a view of the world this day 15 years ago. Further evidence, not much has changed. The Middle East was headlining the news this day, with reports of Israeli aircraft,
WLS – Ron Riley – British Billboard – February 24, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Being a teenager, just about anywhere in America meant having your ear at least partially glued to your radio. The British Invasion was going full blast, and every week some new band, some
Impact Of Watergate – NBC Radio: Second Sunday – December 9, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the events of the past week mounting in drama and increasing in intensity almost hourly, many people have recalled another time, another event, where a President of the United States
Spiro Agnew – Attorney General Elliot Richardson Press Conference – October 11, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A little less than a year before Richard Nixon left office over the Watergate scandal, vice-President Spiro Agnew left office under a cloud of bribery, income tax evasion and influence peddling.
President Eisenhower – address to National Education Association 100th Birthday – April 4, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – President Eisenhower addressed a gathering of the National Education Association, on the occasion of their 100th anniversary in 1957. Some 60 years later, the institution of Education and higher learning
February 7, 1984 – CBS World News Roundup + CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 7, 1984 – The news had much to do with being up in the air – on one side of the spectrum, it was about a historic spacewalk and on the
Roy Wilkins – NBC Radio: Negro Newspaper Week – March 14, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Roy Wilkins – beginning in 1955 he was Administrator for the NAACP. By the end of that year he would be head of that organization, during a time of tremendous social upheaval
Ty Segall – Live At The Paradiso, Amsterdam – May 21, 2011 – VPRO-3VOOR12-FM Ty Segall tonight. For those of you not quite up for the soothing strains of Robert Schumann via our Mid-Week Concert, here is a little something from the opposite side of the spectrum in the form
Cedric Foster Commentary – Foreign Policy under Eisenhower – January 30, 1957 – MBS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Foreign Policy has always been a sticky situation for the U.S. – different approaches have yielded different results. During the Eisenhower years it was a favored approach by the President
