[/caption] – NBC – Chicago University Of The Air -Should A United States Army Enforce The Partition of Palestine? – Feb. 22, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the Partition of Palestine began to unfold and as the violence increased, a question was raised as to whether the U.S.
NPR – Morning Edition + new reports – November 21, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this November 21st in 1995 was hopeful. In what had been described as the worst conflict in Europe since World War 2, a settlement had been reached in Dayton, Ohio where
– CBS Radio News – The World Tonight – October 1, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The new month got off to a roaring start, this October 1st in 1980. Iran and Iraq were at war and this was Day #9. The economy was making news with Interest
– ABC Information Network News – August 5, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this August 5th in 1990 was unsettling, taken with a grain of salt accompanied by shrugged shoulders. While the situation in Kuwait was achieving uncertainty, U.S. Marines were wading ashore in Liberia in
– News for July 29, 1979 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though July 29th came on a Sunday in 1979, there was still enough going on to not call it a slow news day. For one thing, the prison riot/hostage/stand-off situation at Walpole was continuing,
On July 12, 1966 – With the Vietnam War pulling us deeper and deeper into the conflict-with-no-end, and Red China showing increasing antagonism toward the U.S. – and now that they had the Atomic Bomb – the balance of power in Southeast Asia was looking precarious, at least to our
– July 8, 1948 – News Of The World – Palestine Crisis and more – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1948 had much to do with the crisis in Palestine, which had now blown up into full-scale war. UN mediators were scrambling for negotiations to
Further evidence that history on any particular day isn’t about one earth-shifting event, but a series of seemingly inconsequential ones that creep up from time to time and take center stage without anybody looking. On this June 4th in 1961 it was about the upcoming Vienna Summit with Soviet Prime
Become a member – it works wonders:Become a Patron! – ABC Voices In The Headlines – May 29, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for the week, ending on this May 29th in 1966, was mostly about our inevitable plunge into the quagmire called Vietnam. Rioting had erupted
Coffee works and it works real good! – ABC Radio – Report From Santo Domingo – May 12, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 59 years ago today, May 13, 1965, we were embroiled in another Latin–American conflict. This time it was the Dominican Republic and a coup with
