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Membership has percs: Become a Patron! – April 18, 1956 – News Of The Day – Various newscasts – Mutual Broadcasting – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 18, 1956. If you were around on this day you would be…
– CBS World News Roundup – April 11, 1987 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this particular day in 1987, much of the news was regarding an unfolding sex scandal at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. How this scandal…
Membership has its percs: Become a Patron! – President Harry S. Truman – Signing The NATO Agreement – April 4, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As a reminder of why NATO was an important step in the history…
Membership has its percs: Become a Patron! – The Eisenhower Years – CBS Radio News – January 8, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Eisenhower Years – the years that started in January of 1953 and ended in…
Become a subscriber: Become a Patron! – CBS Radio – The World This Week – ending March 22, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 1981 – Ending a week of turmoil and uncertainty. The situation in El…
Subscribe? Become a Patron! – NBC Radio – News for March 21, 1947 – News for this first day of Spring in 1947 was about the situation in Salonika and economic crisis spreading throughout Europe, with Greece and Turkey in…
– Operation Alert 1959 – Conelrad Emergency Broadcast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection If the Cold War period wasn’t frightening enough for the average person, with daily news reports of tensions and takeovers and thinly-veiled threats, there was the extra…
News on this March 14th in 1948 came by way of commentary on the Marshall Plan for reconstruction of Europe. Branded by some as an unwarranted blank check to the former European allies with no obligation to pay back, while…
– Radio Moscow – News from Moscow to America – March 7, 1947 – One of the constants during the Cold War period was the War of Words waged between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This broadcast, from Radio…
Subscribing works wonders: Become a Patron! – Today With Mrs. Roosevelt – Feb. 26, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1950, just prior to the outbreak of the Korean War and during the steady boil of the Cold…