– Radio Reports on Coup in Venezuela – April 11-14, 2002 – NPR/BBC World Service Gordon Skene Sound Collection Amid conflicting reports from Caracas earlier this year, regarding protests, demonstrations-turned violent and mounting death tolls, I am reminded that the state of attempted overthrows in this South American country
February 16, 1974 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 16, 1974 – a week focusing on a dissident and a hostage. The dissident in question was writer and outspoken Soviet critic Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose milestone novel The Gulag Archipelago not only won
October 27, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 27, 1995 – this day was marked by another mass shooting – this one on an Army base at Ft. Bragg North Carolina, killing one and wounding some 18, with three listed in critical condition.
– NBC Nightly News – October 15, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this October 15th, 50 years ago was about yet another mishap/near catastrophe President Ford was involved in. This time the blame was placed squarely on the Police Department in Hartford Connecticut where they failed
– H.W. van Loon Commentary – Reigns Of Terror – March 18, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – War: While people attempt to make sense out of the events this past week in Paris and Beirut and other parts of the world where terrorism is alive or waiting, here
– January 10, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Subscribe: Become a Patron! January 10,2000 – Even though the continuing saga of Elian Gonzalez was still front-page news, the announcement of a merger between AOL and Time-Warner was the talk of the
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– News Of The World – February 24, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1941 marked the 544th day since the conflict began. The U.S. was still not involved in the shooting side of things, but was aiding Britain in their fight against Germany. On this
– CBS World News Roundup – December 30, 1986 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Only a year earlier, on December 30, 1985, President Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev exchanged warm New Years greetings and hopes for continued progress for both countries. December 30, 1986 it was a different
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