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Patrons get perks – join up and find out: Become a Patron! News for this September 27th in 1938 was grim. The crisis in Munich was rapidly coming to a boil and it seemed at the time inevitable that war would break out. British Prime Minister Chamberlain, exhausted from the...
Subscribers: Become a Patron! The Crisis of 1938 – the dispute between Germany and Czechoslovakia over land claims by the Germans marked a significant change in what was going on in the world and how it was being received. First, it represented the introduction of Shuttle Diplomacy. As was mentioned...
February 5, 2000 – CBS Weekend Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 5, 2000 – a Saturday, and a wrapup of the week’s important stories from CBS News – starting with the New Hampshire Republican and Democratic primaries. Arizona Senator John McCain scored an huge upset victory over...
Address by Julian S. Sawyer – Communist Party Candidate For Lieutenant Governor, New York – Oct. 26, 1936 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 26, 1936. No major wars had broken out, yet. But there was a surplus of turmoil and discontent in the world. Europe was slowly easing...
New York Herald Tribute Forum: The Challenge To Civilization – Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover and others – October 24, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 24, 1939 – Ironically, the very same day in the same year as the previous post featuring Reich Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop...
Reich Minister of Foreign Affairs – Joachim von Ribbentrop – Address from Danzig -Berlin Radio – October 24, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 24, 1939 – a little more than a month since the War in Europe got started and Nazi Germany was flushed with victories. On...
August 25, 1944 – News Reports from BBC – NBC and a Radio Documentary from Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 25, 1944 – in a flurry of bulletins and reports, news came pouring in that Paris was now liberated and in Allied control. Despite a flood...
August 24, 1939 – BBC Radio Home Service – News Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 24, 1939 – With War in Europe only days away from breaking out, events leading up to that ominous moment become clearer in retrospect. On this day, reactions over the signing of...
August 22, 2002 – BBC World Service – World Report – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 22, 2002 – another report of another hostage situation by another terrorist group and another announcement of a beheading. 2002 had no shortage of terrorist organizations around the world. This one, allegedly funded...
August 2-6, 1939 – News/commentary from Radio Berlin – BBC, London – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 2-6, 1939 – days when tensions between Germany and Poland were heating up over the city of Danzig (now Gdasnk). The issue was one where Germany claimed Danzig was theirs and Poland...
