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February 19, 1965 – Shapes Of Things – Attempted Coup In Saigon – Attempted Extremists In Germany.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12722″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 19, 1965 – Overseas Assignment – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] History doesn’t preserve itself, it needs your help: Become a Patron! As if there weren’t enough indications that America had gotten itself involved in a shooting war in Vietnam sooner

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February 18, 1987 – Dissidents, Shakeups And Smokers

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7035″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 18, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] No end to drama, this February 18th in 1987. Street fighting in Beirut, brokered truces falling apart, fighting over a strategically placed office building in Beirut, which just happened to be

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February 17, 1996 – A Collision Of Ideologies – A Collision Of Trains – A $19 Million Settlement

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12698″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 17, 1996 – NPR – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this February 17th in 1996 started off with a grim report of a collision between trains had taken place just outside of Washington D.C., killing at least 11

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Children protesting with signs reading "Children are not born to burn" and "Stop the war now" during a historic demonstration, highlighting activism, peace, and youth involvement in social causes.

February 15, 1967 – Protesting The Vietnam War – Calling Up The Reserves – It’s No Longer Cassius Clay –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54760″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 15, 1967 – Sixth Hour News – WNBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 15, 1967 – Sixth Hour News – WNBC New York – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 15, 1967 – News today was about Vietnam – the Vietnam War

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February 12, 1964 – Big Trouble In Little Cyprus

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12595″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 12, 1964 – ABC News – WXYZ, Detroit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Contrary to popular belief that the world changed in 1964, based on the happenings on The Ed Sullivan Show a few days earlier, it was the business-as-usual for the rest

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February 11, 1941 – War Of Nerves – War Of Words – The View From Vichy

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12582″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 11, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this February 11th in 1941 was primarily about the war in Europe; a war the U.S. was comfortably-but-getting-less-so not directly involved in. We were still

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The Grilling of Dr. Henry Foster

February 10, 1995 – About Grilling – The Foster Confirmation Hearings – The Simpson Trial – Airline Bomb Threats

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12567″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 10, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] No end to grilling going on, this February 10th in 1995. On Capitol Hill it was the grilling of Surgeon General Nominee Dr. Henry Foster and the sound of overzealous clucking

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