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September 27, 1990 – Ratcheting Up The Gulf – SCOTUS Gets A Souter – September 27, 1990 - CBS News Update - CBS Hourly News - Gordon Skene Sound Collection - September 27, 1990 - News on this day was hovering around Capitol Hill, where Supreme Court Justice-designate David Souter got the nod and became the latest Justice to serve on the highest court. The Senate Judiciary...
July 4, 1951 – Happy 175th – The View From Korea – The Sound From St. Paul’s Cathedral – July 4, 1951 - Edward R. Murrow News with Don Hollenbeck - Gordon Skene Sound Collection - July 4, 1951 - America was 175 years old on this day. And even at 175, we were still in the grip of war. Korea was the battleground and Communism was the issue. Communism and the fear that...
March 30, 1954 – A Dien Bien Phu Frame Of Mind – March 30, 1954 - Frank Hemingway News and Comment - Mutual Broadcasting - Gordon Skene Sound Collection - March 30, 1954. Word from French Indochina (Vietnam) that a desperate battle was taking place at Dien Bien Phu, a strategic French military base which had come under full-scale assault by Vietminh forces. For the first time in the...
A Matter Of Education – A Question Of Our Place In The World – 1955 – Past Daily Reference Room – State of Education - Franco-American relations - Listen To Washington - February 15, 1955 - Gordon Skene Sound Collection - In 1955 we were in the middle of what became known as the Post-War Baby Boom. Kids born after 1945 were either approaching school age or were well into...
Henry Wallace Has A Word About Free Enterprise 1944 – The Reference Room – Henry Wallace - Address of March 17, 1944 - Gordon Skene Sound Collection - Henry Wallace has been receiving a goodly amount of attention in recent years. As Secretary of Agriculture and then vice-President under FDR, he was a major supporter of FDR's New Deal policies and considered even by those within his...
Dorothy Thompson Has A Few Words For FDR In 1944 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry – Past Daily – Dorothy Thompson - Radio Address FDR For President Committee - October 29, 1944 - Gordon Skene Sound Collection - Dorothy Thompson was one of the most respected journalists working in Radio as well as print in the 1930s. She was second (only to Eleanor Roosevelt) as Most Trusted Woman In...
October 14, 1947 – Meatless Tuesday And A Hint At 1948 – Past Daily – October 14, 1947 - Pure Oil News - NBC Radio - Gordon Skene Sound Collection - October 14, 1947 - a snapshot of the Postwar world. This was a Tuesday in 1947, and that meant Meatless Tuesday if you lived in America on this day. Food rationing was a reality, and it wasn't just meat being in short supply. There was...
Election 1956 – Shuffling The Cards, Reading The Leaves – Past Daily Reference Room – Past Daily – Election 1956. Late in 1955, when speculation was rife over whether or not President Eisenhower would run for a second term, pundits and commentators fell over themselves predicting a possible outcome - everyone agreed, it would be an Eisenhower victory. But the question was, as...
