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Pentagon Pressure over Vietnam

April 8, 1975 – The Bleed-Out – Pressure From The Pentagon Over Vietnam

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20573″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”April 8, 1975 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] As the situation in Vietnam went from bad to worse to hopeless – the Pentagon was pressuring The White House to pressure Capitol Hill  to provide $ 1/2 Billion in immediate Military

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Soldiers marching during wartime, vintage military image, historical war scene, black and white photo.

April 7, 1941 – German Invasion Of Yugoslavia – Unconfirmed Messages From Athens – No Direct News From Belgrade.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”55487″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”April 7, 1941 – NBC News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] April 7, 1941 – NBC News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 7, 1941 – News from the Balkans was grim this day. The German Army

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Vietnam - The panic was on.

April 1, 1975 – ‘The Military Has Lost Control Of The City’ – The Situation In South Vietnam

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20458″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”April 1, 1975 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] In what was previously described as a strategic withdrawal of South Vietnamese forces from key provinces, became a rout as South Vietnamese soldiers abandoned weapons and equipment and fled in front of

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March 30, 1981 – The Day All Hell Broke Loose

March 30, 1981 – CBS News Special Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 30, 1981 – Starting off normal, unremarkable in so many ways – but by mid-morning East Coast time, pandemonium had broken out. President Reagan, on his way out of the Washington Hilton, where he had

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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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Forced migration during wartime, refugees with children walking along a rural road in black and white.

March 23, 1999 – Frustration From Kosovo – A Firing Squad In Cuba – OPEC Cuts Production

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”55266″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 23, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] March 23, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 23, 1999 – News from Kosovo and the word was Frustration. U.S. envoy Richard Holbrook failed

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