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April 2, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 2, 1988 – A busy news day and not all of it was happening at home. Starting with news from Panama about dictator Manuel Noriega and considerations over stepping up pressure on the Military strongman...
March 15, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 15, 1985 – News of the latest kidnapping of a Westerner in Beirut. This one, AP Correspondent Terry Anderson, abducted by three gunmen earlier in the morning and taken away in a Green Mercedes. As...
March 1, 2005 – BBC World Service News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 1, 2005 – A very busy day, if you were a world-watcher. With scandals popping up seemingly everywhere and the world teetering on any one of a number of brinks, it made for some nail-biting...
February 26, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 26, 1988 – Characterized as a turbulent 18 hours in Panama, figurehead President Eric Arturo del Valle stunned the country by firing General Manuel Noriega who was his political godfather. The ploy didn’t work, as...
February 21, 1978 – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 21, 1978 – Another strike, another shutdown. This time, the Coal Miners. Beginning in December of 1977 and with seemingly no end in sight, President Carter went to Capitol Hill and met with Congressional leaders in...
February 5, 2000 – CBS Radio Weekend Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 5, 2000 – news on this day spotlighted the events of this week in 2000. Election 2000 was up and running, with primaries in New Hampshire bringing a stunning victory for John McCain and signaling...
Saturday Night Massacre – CBS Radio News Bulletins – October 19-20, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The infamous Saturday Night Massacre. At the height of the Watergate Scandal and the eventual toppling of the Nixon Presidency, the move to oust Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, which was met by...
January 10, 1973 – NBC News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 10, 1973 – The Watergate bugging case resurfaced this day with a surprise. E. Howard Hunt, former employee of the White House, pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, burglary and eavesdropping. The government said it was willing...
1974 Year-End – CBS News – December 29, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1974 – If you were around at the time, and you were old enough to remember it, 1974 was a year we thought would never end fast enough. As Gerald Ford, our first dually un-elected...
November 29, 1986 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 29, 1986 – A day loaded with intrigue over the growing scandal of Iran-Contra. “The paper shredder was really humming at the National Security Council’s offices” – according to a report in the New York...
