CBS World News Roundup – July 21, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day, 57 years ago saw an escalation of things. An escalation of the War in Vietnam and an escalation in the violence in reaction to the Civil Rights Movement. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara had
– NBC News – June 29, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1970 had a lot to do with the promised withdrawal from Cambodia, two months after invading and setting off a domestic firestorm which left students dead and a country bitterly divided. In
Become a Patron! Summer 1967 – KFWB – B. Mitchel Reed – KHJ – Humble Harve – KHJ – The Real Don Steele – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Summer 1967 – AM radio still reigns supreme. But the songs are suddenly longer, and edgier. No way of getting around
Further evidence May, historically, has been anything but a dull month. Take for example this past week in 1975. News for the week ending May 11, 1975 was about upheaval, reprisal and fear for the future. With the collapse of South Vietnam, the exodus of refugees to America continued. The
NBC Nightly News – May 4, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Many have said the events outside the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago started the shift in national opinion of the War in Vietnam. The events at Kent State (and a few days later at Jackson State) 52 years
On top of everything else going on this day in 1970, it was also Earth Day – the very first one. Amid a flurry of publicity and events, Earth Day was intended to be the beginning of what would be the Ecological Movement throughout the world – the day where
– April 21, 1975 – Thieu Resigns – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the collapse of South Vietnam only a matter of time this April in 1975, word came on the 21st of the resignation of South Vietnamese President Nguyen van Thieu, citing anger and bitterness
April 7, 1971 – Dave Diamond – KRLA – Rob Frankel Collection – You remember. You were exited over the possibilities. Two months to go and you’ll never HAVE to wake up every morning – never HAVE to be home by 10 – never HAVE to sweat out mid-terms (except
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