Category: Crime
July 18, 2005 – A Life Sentence – A Lack Of Remorse – Hurricane Emily Heading For Land
July 18, 2005 – CNN Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 18, 2005 – 13 years ago it was about sentencing domestic terrorists and quickly approaching hurricanes. Life in prison was the sentence for domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph for bombing a Women’s clinic in Birmingham Alabama in
June 25, 1999 – National Take Your Dog To Work Day – Americas Little Road Rage Problem – Sleeping Pilots
June 25, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 25, 1999 – Maybe a slow news day, but still. It was National Take Your Dog To Work Day, and for that brief moment most employees and employers were deluged with fur people and the
May 18, 2001 – The Tit-For-Tat Of Terrorism – Israeli Retaliation-Palestinian Suicide Bombings. A Scandal In California.
May 18, 2001 – National Public Radio All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 18, 2001 – A day all too familiar in recent years. From Jerusalem came reports of Israeli F-16’s targeting Hamas positions and training camps in retaliation for a suicide bombing outside a busy
May 17, 2006 – Enron: The Jury Gets The Case – The Border Gets Another Fence – Bush Signs Another Tax Cut
May 17, 2006 – NPR Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 17, 2006 – Twelve years, and you’d think the world would have changed forever. No. This day, like many other days, the same news was happening – different people, different places and maybe different circumstances. But
May 15, 1998 – Jakarta Is Burning – The G-8 Gets Started – Women’s Clinics Are Shut
May 15, 1998 – NPR News – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – My 15, 1998 – A day of protest, violence and shock. Starting with news that riots in Jakarta, Indonesia had claimed hundreds of lives and that there was little in the way of relief
May 11, 2000 – Los Alamos Fire: “Somebody Made A Mistake – We Have To Find Out Who” – The Million Mom March Gains Momentum
May 11, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 11, 2000 – A day things spiraled out of control. The fire consuming Los Alamos New Mexico initially began as a “controlled burn”. But owing to an unexpected wind shift, it quickly exploded
May 4, 1995 – The Search For John Doe #2 – Oklahoma City Bombing Aftermath
May 4, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 4, 1995 – 15 days after the Oklahoma City Bombing, Police, FBI and ATF agents were still sifting through rubble, still looking for bodies and still looking for suspects. On this day a sketch emerged
May 1, 1995 – A Settlement Reached, A Search Continued, A Trade Ban Imposed
May 1, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 1, 1995 – A busy news day, this First of May. Beginning with news that a settlement had been reached in the trial of Malcolm X’s granddaughter Qubilah Shabazz, who was accused of a murder-for-hire