Objective: West Coast – December 9, 1941
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Cold War Jitters And Price Controls – December 3, 1947
– NBC Radio News Of The World – December 3, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News about the Cold War overseas and discontent over Price Controls at home, for this December 3rd in 1947. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson predicted a dramatic rise in Meat prices for 1948 unless
Pakistan: Body Counts – My Lai: Questions – November 19, 1970
– NBC Nightly News (Audio version) – November 19, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In Pakistan – In Vietnam – A horrific day in history, by most accounts. November 19th 1970 brought with it reports of some 150,000 dead, over a million refugees and untold numbers left homeless,
New York Goes Dark – Draft Cards Get Burned – Last Boat Leaves Cuba – Week Of Wonders : November 14, 1965
– ABC Radio: Voices In The Headlines – week ending November 14, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A harbinger of things to come? Maybe. But at the time, the week ending this November 14th in 1965 was no small feat no matter how you looked at it. Starting
Detroit On Strike: Pickets, Promises And The Nuisance Tax – November 12, 1964
– The Morning Report fro WXYZ-Detroit – November 12, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A lot of local news, via WXYZ in Detroit, in this November 12th in 1964. Beginning with news of the ongoing newspaper Strike at The Detroit News, the layoffs at Ford and a threatened
Election ’76: Mad Dash To The Finish Line – “I’ll Say Anything – I’ll Do Anything!” – October 31, 1976
– ABC World News This Week – October 31, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Election ’76: Down to the wire – the last full week of campaigning before America went to the polls, this week ending October 31st, in 1976. President Ford and Jimmy Carter and, by the
L.A. On Fire – October 24, 1978
CBS World News Roundup – October 24, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If the world wasn’t complicated enough on this October 24th in 1978, parts of it were catching on fire. Almost like clockwork, Southern California went through the ritual; a dry Santa Ana wind combined with lots
Beirut Barracks Bombing: Not With Open Arms – October 23, 1983
Forty-one years ago today we were hearing the shocking news of a truck bomb exploded outside a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. And moments later another truck bomb going off outside a French military compound a short distance away. It was a new and horrifying glimpse of what was to
The Week That Was: A War Out Of Control – A Poet Departs – A Writer Lectures – October 22, 1950
– Voices And Events – For Week Ending -October 22, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This week, 74 years ago the world seemed a different place. Celebrated Poets were leaving, celebrated writers were lecturing. Wars were raging out of control, off-year elections were being fought over and compared
Okinawa: Yankee, Get Out – Prisons And Crack – Baseball And Protests – October 21, 1999
– CBS World News Roundup – October 21, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A day full of protests, this October 21st in 1999. Starting with a lockdown on Federal Prisons, who were seeing a spike in disturbances the previous few days. Seems much of it had to do