Category: Day in history

January 1945 - Belgium

January 2, 1945 – Back And Forth In Belgium

– January 2, 1945 – News Of The World – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 2, 1945 – Two days into the new year and word from Belgium was one of advancing, pulling back and advancing again. Allied relief was pouring into the Bastogne area, with news

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Christmas

Pondering Christmas Past – 1956 – Past Daily Reference Room

– NBC Radio – Conversation: Christmas 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Christmas Eve 1956. Certainly a different time – different sets of values, different communication skills, different world all together. But then, as now, the times were nervous and uncertain. The Cold War cast a shadow over everything,

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