– October 25, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 25, 1978 – Depending on where you were, it was an uncomfortable day. If you were in Finance, you would be nervous over the drop in the value of the dollar overseas as reactions
CBS World News Roundup – October 24, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If the world wasn’t complicated enough on this October 24th in 1978, parts of it were catching on fire. Almost like clockwork, Southern California went through the ritual; a dry Santa Ana wind combined with lots
Forty-one years ago today we were hearing the shocking news of a truck bomb exploded outside a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. And moments later another truck bomb going off outside a French military compound a short distance away. It was a new and horrifying glimpse of what was to
– Voices And Events – For Week Ending -October 22, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This week, 74 years ago the world seemed a different place. Celebrated Poets were leaving, celebrated writers were lecturing. Wars were raging out of control, off-year elections were being fought over and compared
– CBS World News Roundup – October 21, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A day full of protests, this October 21st in 1999. Starting with a lockdown on Federal Prisons, who were seeing a spike in disturbances the previous few days. Seems much of it had to do
– October 17, 1941 – NBC Blue Network – News Here and Abroad – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 17, 1941 – With war slowly becoming a real possibility, a two-ocean crisis was developing and changes in the Japanese government made war more of an eventuality than ever. German
– ABC Radio News – WXYZ, Detroit Morning Report – October 16, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Word from The Kremlin. The stunning news, on this October 16, 1964, was the revelation that Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev had been removed from office in what many believed to be
– CBS World News Roundup – October 15, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Haiti: After some 1100 days in exile, deposed President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was heading back to Port-au Prince to resume his presidency after being overthrown by a military coup led by Raoul Cedras. On this October
– BBC/WRUL-Radio New York Worldwide – British Election Results (excerpt) – October 15, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Sixty years ago it was an election year in more places than the U.S. – Britain was in the midst of having their own, and it was looking to be a
October 11, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 11, 1999 – News for this day began with the opening phase of Jury selection for the murder trial of Matthew Shepard, whose beating and torture ignited a firestorm of protest throughout the country, and
