As days go, a rather quiet news one. Starting with word from Youngstown Florida where eight persons were killed and 67 were hospitalized after a freight train derailed early Sunday near this Florida panhandle community and a cloud of chlorine gas from a ruptured tank car spread across a nearby
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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
February 12, 1976 – The World Tonight – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12, 1976 and another day where secret documents found their way into mass circulation. This time, it was the findings by the Pike Committee on Capitol Hill, investigating the CIA. The documents revealing
February 5, 1977 – CBS Radio – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 5, 1977 – The week was full of new about the Energy Crisis that wasn’t going to go away. America was asked to curb excess, starting with turning down thermostats, while Buffalo
Saturday Night Massacre – CBS Radio News Bulletins – October 19-20, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The infamous Saturday Night Massacre. At the height of the Watergate Scandal and the eventual toppling of the Nixon Presidency, the move to oust Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, which was met by
Gregor Piatigorsky in conversation with James Day – Day At Night – May 24, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gregor Piatigorsky. Without question one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century, and to some the greatest string player of all time. The Ukranian born American cellist settled
It looked better on her anyway. Admit it – it looked better on her than it did on you anyway. Still – it was gramps favorite hat. Back when people wore those things and they looked like they had someplace to go. Suit and tie to get on a bus
Henry Kissinger and Anwar Sadat – Turbo-charged Shuttle Diplomacy. Busy week in the world, the one ending on January 20, 1974. Starting with The Middle East. Henry Kissinger pulled it off. The Israeli-Egyptian agreement to separate their troops along the Suez Canal is a brilliant achievement of personal diplomacy, although
– Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Live At Fillmore East – June 4, 1970 A classic concert this weekend via the legendary Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Recorded live at The Fillmore East, during a multi-day stint on their 1970 tour. This one is from June 4th.If you’re like
