– BBC Newsreel – October 12, 1976 – BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this October 12th in 1976 there was a aura of uncertainty in the direction of China. Longtime leader Mao Tse-Tung had died in September and rumors of a coup were spreading, along
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August 20, 1970 – NBC Nightly News (audio edition) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 20, 1970 – Front and center for this August 20th was the growing concern over drug use by the Military in Vietnam. The Pentagon had sent a task force out to see if the
In the summer of 1959, Vienna became the unlikely meeting place for thousands of young people from around the world. From July 26 through August 4, approximately 18,000 young people representing more than 100 countries gathered for the Seventh World Festival of Youth and Students for Peace and Friendship. There
– WCBS News + CBS World News Roundup – July 20, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sixty-one years ago today, we were looking at a Summer awash with gloomy reports, agitated people and uncertain times. After a whirlwind 5-day fact-finding tour of South Vietnam, Defense Secretary McNamara boarded
NBC Radio – India-China War – November 1962 The one event that managed to dislodge reports regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis in November of 1962 was the outbreak of hostilities between India and China. Long a hotbed of disputes, the crisis reached boiling point late in October when China
– CBS – Edward R. Murrow Program With Charles Collingwood – June 17, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection June 17th in a Cold War 1953. With last minute appeals for clemency sent to the Supreme Court over the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of espionage in allegedly
Senator McCarthy – even telephones were dragged into the proceedings. Another day of drama on Capitol Hil, this June 2, 1954. Roy M. Cohn said today that Attorney General Herbert Brownell or his assistant “instigated” the Army-McCarthy hearings and that this constituted a “stacked deck” against the McCarthy side if
Our Foreign Policy – Question of China – May 25, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Post-war Far East. The long process of rebuilding and negotiating. The question in 1946 had much to do with China. Under attack and at war since 1937 – overrun by Japanese troops and
Eleanor Roosevelt – Meet The Press – October 26, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, contrary to fading into the woodwork and living our her days in peaceful obscurity, took to the world political stage after the death of her husband, Franklin, and
