– NPR News – September 5, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this September 5th the world is holding it’s collective breath. On September 5th in 1995 the world was looking at the situation in the region formerly known as Yugoslavia and that nightmare the ensued after the
– News from BBC World Service – Paris Radio English service – September 4, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With War in Europe officially declared, this day in September 1939, the first official casualties reported wound up being civilians, innocent bystanders, caught in the wrong place at the
– August 14, 2003 – CBS Special Reports – Network Newscast – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The power went off around 4:10 in the afternoon, that August 14th, twenty-two years ago. Coming up on the second anniversary of the 9/11 attack and the destruction of The World Trade Center,
– August 13, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 13, 1990 – All eyes on the Persian Gulf, this August 13th. The Iraq invasion of Kuwait touched off a firestorm of protest – both for and against the events in the region. Saudi
– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1945 – eighty years ago, the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t
– News for July 31, 1940 – As the Dog Days of Summer and the Nation’s Capitol sweltered for its thirteenth consecutive day, this July 31st in 1940, the news was appropriately sparse, the events were comparatively few and the air-conditioning comparatively rare. Starting with news from London that overnight
– CBS World News Roundup – July 30, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While much of the world was busily distracted by the Olympics in Los Angeles, a quiet pessimism was bubbling unabated under the surface, this July 30th in 1984. Summit talks between the U.S. and the
Medicare and Vietnam: 60 years ago this week. Medicare became a reality for millions of Americans, By an overwhelming majority on July 28, the Medicare bill passed Congress and headed to President Johnson for signature. On July 30 it was signed into law and would be effective on September
– July 28, 1980 – Frontline Report – CBS World News Roundup – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 28, 1980 – Day 268 for the Americans held hostage in Iran. It was also the day most Iranians woke up to the
July 25, 2001 – While the U.S.this day was focusing on the sleight-of-hand from OPEC, it was in the process of learning a new and potentially devastating word: Oxycontin. OPEC, in an attempt to prop-up falling oil prices, revealed it would cut production by a million barrels a day.The news
