July 16, 2007 – CBS News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Juy 16, 2007 – Eighteen years ago today, it was about earthquakes of the Terra firma and Ecclesiastical kind. An earthquake in Japan, measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale rattled Japan’s Northwestern coast; killing 5,
– Apollo-Soyuz launch – CBS Radio Special Report – July 15, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Big news, this July 15th 50 years ago. The launch of a U.S. spacecraft and a Soviet spacecraft with the sole intention of linking up in orbit. Apollo-Soyuz as it was known, was
– July 11, 1951 – CBS Radio: Edward R. Murrow News with Don Hollenbeck – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another mixed-signals day, this July 11, 1951. With truce talks going on in Korea, fighting was still going on – with a reported additional 164 American troops killed in action
– News for Week of July 11, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Busy week, this particular one in July 1974. Surprise results from elections in Canada, uneasy ceasefire staying along Israeli borders and that thing called Watergate that kept the country and much of the world
– NBC Nightly News With Chet Huntley and David Brinkley – July 10, 1970 – Had there not been so much drama, deceit and upheaval associated with the decade of the 70s, it might have been called “The Goofy Decade”, there was no shortage of strange occurrences taking place during
– News for July 9, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this particular July day in 1987 was focused pretty much on events pertaining to, or talking about, the Middle East – most notably Iran. Iranian gunboats were observed shelling the American
– Bicentennial coverage – CBS Radio – July 4, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hard to imagine it was 49 years ago today that America celebrated its Bicentennial. July 4, 1976 was a nationwide, non-stop party – and no matter who you were or where you were, you
– WNBC-AM/FM – News for New York – July 2, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Summer in Manhattan – nothing that taking up residence inside a walk-in freezer couldn’t fix. But this July 2nd in 1964 had its fair share of problems – not the least being the
– July 1, 1973 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 1, 1973 – brought a new month and new drama around Capitol Hill. The week ending for this first day of July brought news of Congress demanding an end to the bombing
– June 27, 1947 – ABC Radio Headline Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 27, 1947 – a day of diplomacy and discussion. The Paris Peace Conference took center stage on this day. Despite 100 degree temperatures in Paris, the formally dressed, and miserably uncomfortable delegates filed
