– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1945 – eighty years ago, the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t
– News for July 31, 1940 – As the Dog Days of Summer and the Nation’s Capitol sweltered for its thirteenth consecutive day, this July 31st in 1940, the news was appropriately sparse, the events were comparatively few and the air-conditioning comparatively rare. Starting with news from London that overnight
Voices And Events for week ending July 24, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A world in a state of upheaval and change, this week ending on this day in 1949. President Truman spoke those words in reaction to the weariness the world was feeling, a mere four years
The 1948 Presidential race was hard fought and hotly contested. Within the ranks of the Democratic Party there was a faction, primarily representing the South, who objected strongly to President Truman’s strong Civil Rights stand. So resentful of the President’s campaign to end racial discrimination in the Armed Forces, end
While the war in the Pacific continued, news of the Allies marking an official entry into Berlin provided a reminder that all would be over soon. News on this July 3rd in 1945 was highlighted by an extended report of American, British, French and Russian troops marching into the
– June 27, 1947 – ABC Radio Headline Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 27, 1947 – a day of diplomacy and discussion. The Paris Peace Conference took center stage on this day. Despite 100 degree temperatures in Paris, the formally dressed, and miserably uncomfortable delegates filed
– CBS Radio News – Johnson Addresses United Nations – June 25, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what is shaping up to being a very busy week in history, June 26th marks the anniversary of the first meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco. June 26th
– June 10, 1940 – British Minister of Information Alfred Duff Cooper address – BBC World Service/CBS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 10, 1940 – news for this day was about the sudden declaration of war against Britain and France, just as German troops were headed to Paris.
– NBC Radio – Continuous Coverage – June 6, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Invasion of Europe. Continuing the sounds of the day, eighty-one years ago as it happened on June 6, 1944. After the initial wave, along with first reports signaling the beginning of the invasion of
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