Category: Congress
Civil Rights And The View From Capitol Hill – June, 1957 – Past Daily Reference Room
Civil Rights Legislation For 1957 – American Forum – NBC Radio – June 9, 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Civil Rights. A subject bubbling under the radar around Capitol Hill for quite some time. In the 1940s, President Truman enacted legislation to integrate the Armed Forces, which were
July 25,1972 – A Candidate Under Scrutiny – Eagleton Discloses Issues
July 25, 1972 – NBC Nightly News (Audio) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 25, 1972 – Only days after the Democratic Convention celebration in Atlanta, questions rose to the surface about George McGovern’s choice as running mate, Thomas Eagleton. Reports surfaced that Eagleton had been hospitalized three times
July 17, 1977 – A Peace Proposal In Lebanon – Protests In Ann Arbor
July 17, 1977 – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 17, 1977 – A hopeful day in Lebanon and a day of protest in Ann Arbor, Michigan. News of a proposed peace settlement in Lebanon brought cautious optimism. Details of the proposed peace plan, to bring
July 6, 1974 – Nixon Heads To Moscow – Kissinger Heads To Rome – Opium Poppies Bloom Again In Turkey
July 6, 1974 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 6, 1974 – Nixon and The Moscow Summit. A month before his unprecedented resignation, President Nixon went to Moscow to meet with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to discuss a range of issues
H.R. Haldeman – Watergate Hearings – AM Session – August 1, 1973 – Past Daily Reference Room
H.R. Haldeman – Watergate Hearings – Morning session – August 1, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Part 1 H.R. Haldeman – Watergate Hearings – Morning session – August 1, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Part 2 H.R. Haldeman; one of the key figures in the Watergate
June 9, 2000 – Martin Luther King: Putting A Conspiracy To Rest . . .Temporarily
June 9, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 9, 2000 – The big news this day were findings of a Justice Department investigation into Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination and concluding that it was not the object of a conspiracy,
June 6, 1976 – Capitol Hill And Scandal
June 6, 1976 – The World This Week – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 6, 1976, a Sunday in 1976 which capped off a week of tragedies, intrigues and scandals. Starting off with news of the Teton Dam collapse in Idaho, causing mass flooding and at
May 3, 1987 – And Now, The Contras.
May 3, 1987 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 3, 1987 – Just ahead of the hearings over U.S. involvement in clandestine support for the Nicagarua Contras, who were in the midst of fighting the leftist government of Daniel Ortega. President Reagan