An LBJ Press Conference – May 30, 1968
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Category: Cold War
Class of ’53 – Teenagers Of The 50s – Past Daily Pop Chronicles
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Sixty years ago, almost to the day, America was muddling over the question “what’s happening to today’s youth?” – Crime was up, juvenile delinquency was up, unwanted pregnancies were up, drug and alcohol abuse were up, high-school drop-outs were up.
The Short Fuse Called Palestine – May 3, 1946
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for this particular May 3rd in 1946 was about the Middle East, primarily the area of Palestine. And the news wasn’t good. With tensions between Arabs and Jews mounting, with violence breaking out seemingly everywhere in the region, and
April 5, 1976 – Henry Kissinger And The Middle East – Rubbing People The Wrong Way
News for April 5, 1976 News for this day in 1976 had, among other things, much to do with Secretary Of State Henry Kissinger and the ruffling of feathers in the Middle East, most notably the Israelis. Secretary Kissinger was confronted by a Jewish-American resolution in Congress, accusing him and
The Veils – Live At 3voor12 – Nights At The Roundtable: Mini-Concert Edition.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Veils – Live at 3VOOR12 – March 19, 2009 Truths to tell, this isn’t actually a mini-concert by the entire band, it is really an acoustic set by lead singer of The Veils, Finn Andrews, whose brooding and hypnotic vocals put
Weather Forecast For Vilnius: Blustery With Occasional Posturing – April 1, 1990
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for April 1, 1990 With the runaway train of break-away republics from the soon-to-be-former Soviet Union on this April 1st in 1990, the former Soviet Republic of Lithuania was the next in line to sever ties. Amid warnings of potential dire
File Under: Best Bib And Tucker – March 8, 1947
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for March 8, 1947 As a more-or-less companion to my post yesterday, which featured news from March 7th as presented by Radio Moscow, here is the U.S. take on the Foreign Ministers Conference, which was about to get underway in Moscow.
State Of The Union – 1965 – Lyndon Johnson – Past Daily Reference Room
Click on the link here for Audio Player:  LBJ – State of The Union – 1965 This is the second State of The Union Address  by President Lyndon Johnson, delivered on January 4, 1965. His address for 1964 laid the groundwork for the sweeping changes he was proposing by declaring
The Pessimism That Was 1966 – Past Daily Reference Room.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS – Correspondents Report – 1966 Since we’re coming up on the end of our first week of the new year, I thought I would get one last “Thousand Yard Stare” at previous years before we packed it up until next December.
Commenting On The Thousand Yard Stare – 1955-1958 – Past Daily Reference Room
Click on the link here for Audio Player:Â Year End Observations – 1955-1958 The only thing more fascinating than hearing how a year in history wound up, is hearing that year in history interpreted by a pundit – those elements we overlooked, those seemingly benign events that became earth-shattering, or the