American Hostages In Tehran – Not good for a President’s popularity. April 14, 1980 and the day’s news was all about the hostages. Two International Red Cross officials entered d the occupied U.S. Embassy today to visit the American hostages and check on their health. Harald Schmid de Gruneck, permanent
A busy week, the one ending on this day in 1980: President Carter broke diplomatic relations with Iran today, gave Tehran’s diplomats 36 hours to get out of America and took steps to keep other Iranian citizens from entering the country. Carter also announced a new effort to keep American
April 8, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup + News On The Hour + Newsbreak – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 8, 1980 – With the U.S. Embassy situation in Tehran dragging on for 157 days and with no end in sight, President Carter announced sweeping counter-measures with reference
January 12, 1980 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 12, 1980 – news from Tabriz, Iran was loud and violent. Anti-Khomeni demonstrations in the streets of that Iranian city took a turn for the rock-throwing and sacking of offices on this day. An absolute melee
– CBS World News Roundup – January 9, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the hostage situation at the American Embassy in Tehran continuing and the Soviets settling in around Kabul Afghanistan, the 80s were getting off to a shaky start at best. Threats and saber rattling weren’t doing
– CBS Radio News On The Hour – December 9, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Compared to other December 9th’s in history, December 9, 1981 was downright calm. On this particular day the news was about the OPEC meeting in Adu Dhabi and the promise of a Christmas gift
Still working on getting the bugs out of the translation of these foreign language broadcasts. Many of you have asked if this was going to be a regular feature. It most likely will be. AI is good for something. A reminder the world is a lot small than we think.
November 14,1986 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 14, 1986 – while the world reacted to the White House‘ further sanctions against Syria and the government of Hafaz Assad for fostering terrorism. The Reagan Administration tightened the screws on the Assad government,
– ABC Radio – World News This Week – Week Ending October 20, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 45 years ago today, on October 20th 1980, we were looking back at the week with a mixture of anxiety, perplexity and amazement. The hostage drama with 50 Americans still
– July 28, 1980 – Frontline Report – CBS World News Roundup – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 28, 1980 – Day 268 for the Americans held hostage in Iran. It was also the day most Iranians woke up to the
