Click on the link here for Audio Player – Meet The Press – vice-President Dick Cheney – September 19, 2003 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the current situation in Iraq spirals out of control, and as the much-predicted Civil War begins to make itself clear, I am reminded that
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC Africa Service – BBC World Service News – July 23-29, 2009 With the latest horrifying news, regarding the kidnapping of some 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria by the extremist-fundamentalist group Boko Haram, I was reminded this episode is the latest in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – National Press Club – Situation in Spain – NBC Red Network – April 17, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In the days before the outbreak of World War 2 the lead-up, the harbinger of things to come lay in the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – PRI/BBC – The World – March 28, 1996 – WGBH, Boston Further evidence there are no dull days in history, no matter when – March 28th in 1996 was overflowing with its fair share of uncertainty and mayhem. Starting with revelations
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 18, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection There were glimmers of hope, this March 18th in 1994. In a historic first-step, warring factions which had been tearing apart Bosnia-Herzegovina finally signed an accord, ending the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 13, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This day in 1985 started with a funeral. Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko, after only 13 months in office, had died. His successor, a relative unknown (to all except
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News Of The World – March 12, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As Europe and the rest of the world slowly rebuilt from the ravages of World War 2, another war was brewing – this one between East and
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS – Eyewitness To History w/Walter Cronkite – Report On The Congo – February 24, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As a reminder that independence movements are often bloody, endless and convoluted struggles, you only have to look at the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC World Service – Newshour – February 18, 1999 – BBC Radio News for this day in 1999 was about the capture and arrest of Abdullah Ocalan, founding member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), who was seized by Turkish agents
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Chicago University Roundtable of The Air – Emotions And World Problems – Oct. 31, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One gets the impression the latest round of violence gripping seemingly everywhere around the world is part of a new phenomenon
