April 21, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 21, 1994 – the civil war that raged in the former Yugoslavia was now making a living hell out of the Muslim enclave of Gorazde, as Bosnian Serbs continued a relentless barrage of shelling and
March 9, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 9, 1991 – Desert Storm was over. The Hundred-hour war was now history. Troops were starting to come home. And hints and revelations it could have gone worse were starting to surface. Before leaving
February 23, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 23, 1987 – A milestone day – at the time immersed in Jewish-Russian dissidents and the ongoing Iran-Contra investigation – but also reflecting on the loss of two Popular Culture giants.
February 17, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 17, 2000 – A lot going on – an election year, higher interest rates and the Pentagon defends its program to vaccinate troops against the Anthrax virus. Amid criticisms and a Congressional
February 6, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 6, 1995 – Baseball Strike news this day. Ironically, February 6, 1995 would have been Baseball legend Babe Ruth‘s 100th birthday. But instead, one would have imagined him spinning in his grave, as it was
February 3, 1988 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 3, 1988 – and on Capitol Hill, debate was raging back and forth over President Reagan‘s aid package to the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. Reagan had requested additional funding to aid the Rebels, and the arguments
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
December 15, 2000 – World Briefing – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 15, 2000. A day where a lot was going on the world, and much of it, if you lived in the U.S., you missed. And as so often is the case, while we
– CBS News – August 29-30, 2005 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – When Hurricane Katrina made landfall, all the fears were confirmed and all the warnings were true. Those who stayed behind, and survived, were reporting unfathomable scenes of devastation. And even after the worst of it had passed,
– President-Elect Jimmy Carter – First Press Conference -November 4, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – President-Elect Jimmy Carter, in his first press conference since winning the White House, from November 4, 1976. In retrospect probably not an earth-shattering press conference, certainly sedate by todays standards, but a press
