Category: Cold War

March 30, 1948 – Foreign Aid – Fragile Elections – Italy Goes To The Polls.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20424″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 30, 1948 – Alka-Seltzer News Of The World – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] A busy and “interesting” news day, this March 30th in 1948. Starting with news on the upcoming elections in Italy, which were awash in violence and fears

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Africa in 1964

March 26, 1961 – Soapy Goes To Africa – Fact-Finding In A Region Roiling In Conflict.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7580″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 26, 1961 – Meet The Press – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] The ongoing turmoil/growing pains/strife that marked the Africa Independence Movement in the 1960s continues, to a degree, to this day. But in 1964 it was all pretty fresh. There

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March 25, 1985 – Incident At Potsdam –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”13355″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 25, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this day in 1985 began with a murky report of an alleged Soviet murder of an American Army Major in Potsdam, Germany. The incident had something to do with

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Missiles in March

March 19, 1985 – World Full Of Missiles – Pockets Full Of Empty –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20254″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 19, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] March 19th 1985 was about nuclear weapons, MX Missiles, Geneva Arms talks. East-West relations, saber-rattling and words. On this day the first of two Senate votes was scheduled to take place

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March 4, 1950 – “Brilliant Mind – Nasty Person”: The Klaus Fuchs Affair – The Ever-Present Cult Of Doom.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7247″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 4, 1950 – Voices And Events – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for the week ending on March 4, 1950 had a lot to do with the Cold War and the ever-present threatening cloud of catastrophe which seemed to spread

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February 25, 1948 – An Election On The Horizon – Washington: Same As It Ever Was – Palestine: War Over Partition

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54897″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 25, 1948 – H.R. Baukhage – Baukhage Talking – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 25, 1948 – Baukhage Talking – ABC Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 25, 1948 – News and commentary from H.R. Baukhage, starting

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