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– April 15, 1950 -Voices And Events – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Your typical week, as far as the Fabulous 50s are concerned. This week, ending on April 15th in 1950, was no different. The Cold…
– April 14, 1941 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this April 14, 1941, the 589th day of War, had much to do with the situation in the Balkans. Yugoslavia fell to the…
April 12, 1942 – NBC News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 12, 1942 – Even for a Sunday, a war with no let-up. News from Libya of British advances and German retreats near the coastal…
April 11, 1947 – World News Roundup – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 11, 1947 – News for this day in 1947 had a lot to do with labor and the climate of walkouts, negotiations and…
April 7, 1965 – President Johnson at Johns Hopkins University – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what was billed as a Major Foreign Policy Address over our involvement in Vietnam, LBJ delivered a speech at Johns Hopkins…
– March 22, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 1942 – The world still at war, the stakes getting higher – the threat of a Japanese invasion of Australia getting more likely…
– JFK Press Conference – March 14, 1962 – On this day in 1962, President Kennedy delivered his 27th News conference. He opened by reading a portion of a letter to Secretary of State Dean Rusk regarding the upcoming disarmament…
On this March 4th in 1942, the war was a little under 90 days old for the U.S. and already nerves were running high. The news regarding the Japanese invasion of Java had gained ground against the allies who were…
– March 3, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 3, 1942 – Fighting in the Far-East was taking a bad turn for the allies. With the Netherlands giving up Batavia and slowly pulling…
– February 21, 1942 – News Of The World – Special Report By Martin Agronsky – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 21, 1942. In the midst of news regarding the worsening situation in the Pacific, there also came word…