On a day where crises were popping up seemingly everywhere, the focus on this February 7th in 1964 was the flare-up of bad relations with Cuba and threats by the Castro regime against our military base at Guantanamo. The flap began over the seizing of four Cuban fishing trawlers off
– CBS Radio: The World This Week – February 3, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The big news for the week which ended on this February 3rd in 1980 was the successful escape of 6 Americans who had barely avoided being part of the 50 other Americans held
– January 21, 1958 – NBC News On The Hour -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 21, 1958 – the news of the hour was the situation in Caracas, Venezuela. A general strike was paralyzing the country which was under the military dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. At news time,
– ABC Radio – Voices In The Headlines – January 16, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No doubt about it, on this January 16th in 1966 we were slipping further and further into an abyss known as the Vietnam War. To a joint session of Congress, President Johnson
– News for January 14, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day was largely relegated to speculation on the new Eisenhower term, since the Inaugural was a little over a week away, this January 14th in 1957. But it was also concerned with developments in the Middle-East
– January 13, 1994 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 13, 1994 – the jury in the infamous Menendez Brothers murder trial couldn’t make a decision this day. The jury, which deliberated for days as to whether or not Erik, along with
[/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.
News reports, December 24-31, 1958 – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In case you think Christmas 2024 is weirder than most years, I’m afraid to tell you – no, it’s not – well . . .mostly. 1958 was just as strange, and it had The Cold War
CBS Radio – Sumner Welles – UN Address – Dec. 11, 1948 – With the Cold War unfolding, Independence movements springing up everywhere and disputes breaking out all around the Post-War World, it was a crucial period in U.S. history that a cohesive Foreign Policy was established, and even more
CBS Hourly News – December 11, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Although the good news for this December 11th in 1981 was word from Moscow that Yelizaveta Alexeyeva, daughter-in law of Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov had been granted an exit visa to go to the United States, news
