We’re here because you are: Become a Patron! The search for Osama bin Laden may have ended this day when word came that a CIA drone, equipped with missile fired on a group of suspected Al Qaeda officials, “killing them all” according to a CIA spokesperson. There was no confirmation
We’re here because you are: Become a Patron! CBS World News Roundup – Newsbreak – 9:00 CBS Radio News – February 6, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This February 6th, 1980 came with a veritable file cabinet stuffed with news. A busy day, to say the least. Starting
– CBS Radio Hourly News – December 26, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Even though it was the day after Christmas in 1989, the world was still up to its old tricks; upheavals, invasions and intrigues. Starting with the rather overwhelming U.S. invasion of Panama to oust purported drug
. – CBS Radio: Newsbreak + CBS Radio Hourly News – November 6, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When Iran underwent sweeping changes, starting in late 1978 and culminating in the exile (under the pretense of tests for Cancer) of the Shah, it should have been a warning sign
– NBC Radio – Second Sunday – 1984 Minus 10 – February 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1974 the prospect of the world of 1984 as portrayed by George Orwell seemed more real than fantasy. By 1974 we already had police surveillance, government spying on individuals, an erosion
– News for the Week of June 27, 1973 – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the bombs were falling in the hearing room on Capitol Hill, over the latest harrowing disclosures by former Nixon aide John Dean, bombs and distractions of another kind were
– ABC Overseas Assignment – Feb. 20, 1965 – One of those days full of intrigues from Southeast Asia. In this case, an attempted coup on the part of troops loyal to former Premier Diem (who was assassinated and overthrown with a little CIA help), against troops loyal to Military
Pres. Eisenhower – Latin America Policy address – July 11, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When vice-President Nixon returned from a disastrous tour of Latin America in 1958, concern was high that we were losing our sphere of influence in that region of the world. When Cuba underwent it’s
April 20, 1961 – Crisis In Cuba – Various reports – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 20, 1961 – It was all about Cuba today and news of an invasion by anti-Castro rebels and a day of conflicting reports. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a
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