[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”51424″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”June 19, 1945 – Richard Harkness and the News – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] If you haven’t already, consider: Become a Patron! June 19, 1947 – A relatively calm day. Or calm before the storm, depending on how you looked at
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Become a Patron! Vietnam in 1968. I suppose it depends on who is doing the reporting and where they are reporting from, but the Vietnam War (as with just about all wars and military involvements since) was a bubbling cauldron of differing points of view. Up until the fateful period
WOR-AM – The Barry Gray Program -2:00 am – 2:30 am – December 12, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Five bucks a month, or even a buck a month makes all the difference in the world: Become a Patron! If you were one of those people who subscribed
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– CBS Radio – Radio Beat – Our Position Versus The Russians – March 18, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection At the time of this broadcast, March 18, 1958, the Cold War had been going on for some 13 years. Glimmers of hope every now and then, but some
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7048″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”News for February 19, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Not to seem obvious, but . . .:Become a Patron! News on this day in 1951, via Edward R. Murrow and The News, gave upbeat assessments from General Matthew Ridgeway regarding the situation in
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”49225″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”News for February 13, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! Despite General MacArthur‘s spin that “we are continuing a war of maneuver”, a new phrase had entered into the Korean War Slang dictionary; “Buggin’ out”. On this February day in 1951,
