May 2, 2005 – BBC Radio 4 News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 2, 2005 – A day of hostage taking, insurgents attacking and terrorism in Iraq. As observed and reported by The BBC, the situation in Iraq was becoming entangled in violence and chaos with seemingly no
May 1, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 1, 2001 – Four months into the Bush Administration, the familiar laundry list of issues to tackle; tax cuts and Defense spending. In a policy speech, he said he was going ahead with
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Recap of Army-McCarthy Hearings for April 26, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Sixty-five years ago this month, the endless, far-reaching and career-destroying Army-McCarthy Hearings took place. So popular were these hearings, they were televised live, recapped in
April 25, 2000 – The CBS World News Roundup; Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 25, 2000 – The National Zoo in Washington D.C. was the scene of a gun battle between two rival gangs – caught in the crossfire were a group of school children on
April 24, 19981 – CBS World News Roundup + News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another busy day for news, this April 24th in 1981. President Reagan, recovering from wounds he received twenty-five days earlier from the assassination attempt, was eager to get back to work.
April 18, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 18, 1994 – Starting with historic news from South Africa. It was learned today that South Africa’s leader achieved a milstone breakthrough under which The Inkatha Freedom Party would be able to join the first-ever
President Eisenhower: Address to American Society Of Newspaper Editors – April 17, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – President Eisenhower took this opportunity, by way of addressing The American Society Of Newspaper Editors, to announce his proposal to reorganize The Pentagon, describing it as a “blueprint for safety and
April 17, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 17, 2001 – Busy news day – The Bush White House suddenly turned Green, letting stand a Clinton-era rule on Lead. The White House announcement drew criticism from the industrial sector, who were now obligated
FDR – Address on Pan-American Day – April 15, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On April 15, 1940, President Roosevelt addressed the leaders of the Pan American Union on its 50th anniversary gathering. Saying that the 21 American Republics must be prepared to ‘meet forces with forces’ he
