Daily Archive: August 13, 2015

The Atomic Bomb – Now What? – August 12, 1945 0

The Atomic Bomb – Now What? – August 12, 1945

– Chicago University Roundtable: Atomic Force: It’s Meaning for Mankind – August 12, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the world waited for the official end of World War 2, and as the effects of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki began to settle in, the question...

Marshal Petain – State Of The Nation – August 13, 1940 0

Marshal Petain – State Of The Nation – August 13, 1940

  – Marshal Petain – Address to the French People – Radio Paris – August 13, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 75 years ago this day, the French government, now under control of Nazi German occupation, appointed former World War 1 hero Marshal Phillippe Petain as head of...

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