Category: 1980’s

February 4, 1980 – ABSCAM: New Word In The Dictionary.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6822″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 4, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] On this February 4th in 1980, a new Acronym entered our Dictionary –ABSCAM, which stood for Abdul Enterprises Scam or Arab Scam implicated at least 8 Senators and Congressmen over accepting

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January 28, 1986 – “Something Terrible Has Just Happened” The Challenger Disaster.

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Snowstorm with people waiting under umbrellas and walking through heavy snow, illustrating weather news and urban life, captured in a black-and-white photo.

January 21, 1982 – A Deadly Kentucky Coalmine Explosion – The Blizzard Of ’82 – Welcome To The Me Generation.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54416″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 21, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] January 21, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A coalmine explosion in Kentucky and a blizzard sweeping across the midwest. Just a little of what

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The Big Freeze of '82

January 13, 1982 – The Big Freeze Of ’82 – The On-Going Situation In Poland – A Sit-Down With Hosni Mubarak.

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