October 17, 1986 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 17, 1986 – A day loaded with intrigue. Former U.S. Attorney Griffin Bell was flying down to Managua in an attempt to fish American pilot Eugene Hasenfus out of a tough spot. The tough spot
– NBC Nightly News – October 15, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this October 15th, 50 years ago was about yet another mishap/near catastrophe President Ford was involved in. This time the blame was placed squarely on the Police Department in Hartford Connecticut where they failed
October 14, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 14, 1991 – The melodrama of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings was over, but the dilemma stuck around. To millions of Americans, the final judgement over whether or not Clarence Thomas did harass Anita Hill
– CBS Radio News – October 14, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sad news for this October 14th in 1990. The passing of Music Icon Leonard Bernstein at 72, from Cardiac Arrest. The conductor, guiding light for the New York Philharmonic for years, was also one of the
Cuban Missile Crisis re-cap Oct. 22, 1962 Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Missile crisis. Undoubtedly one of the scarier periods in history because the threat of all-out nuclear war loomed very close over everyone’s heads, and the possibility of going up in Atomic smoke
– NBC Nightly News – October 13, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The big news for this October 13th in 1975 was the ongoing story of New York City’s economic turmoil. A city on the edge of bankruptcy, President Ford was adamant about not offering a bailout to
– Mutual Broadcasting System – 11 o’clock News with Carl Caruso – October 10, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The frigid parts of the Cold War were becoming more apparent on this 10th of October in 1948. Reports of Supreme Court Justice Fred Vinson being recalled, practically mid-air en
– BBC World Service – World Briefing – October 9, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the overthrow and resignation of Slobodan Milosevic a few days earlier and the installation of Vojislav Kostunica as the legitimate President, members of the EU were meeting on this day to discuss
A day of many contrasts on October 7, 1967. Starting with Vietnam. In less than a week President Johnson’s latest defense of his prosecution of the war in Vietnam has been thoroughly undermined. His San Antonio speech was followed by a week in which: -American casualties in Vietnam passed the
Even though October 6th fell on a Sunday in 1996, there was no shortage of news, politics and mayhem to report. Thousands more General Motors employees were poised to join their union brethren on the picket line as the autoworkers’ strike spreads and its economic shock waves ripple through southern
