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April 12, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 12, 1979 – Tornado season was upon us – with 60 dead and counting from the first big outbreak two days earlier along the Texas/Oklahoma border. The previous day, 48 more tornadoes were reported in...
April 2, 1979 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 2, 1979 – The nuclear Power plant accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg Pennsylvania was continuing. Amid signs of optimism that the #2 reactor didn’t completely melt down, officials were upbeat that the worst of...
February 28, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup – NPR News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 28, 2001 – Big news if you lived in Seattle this day – an earthquake measuring 6.8 rattled through the Northwest cutting a wide swath of destruction, particularly in Downtown Seattle, the...
January 29, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 29, 1994 – And if you lived in Los Angeles, the earth continued to be loaded with surprises. During the night, Southern California was greeted with three strong aftershocks from the earthquake that hit over...
January 24, 2006 – National Public Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 24, 2006 – Capitol Hill was preparing to vote on the confirmation of Samuel Alito, nominated by President Bush to replace retiring SCOTUS Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The Senate Judiciary Committee vote was expected to...
January 21, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 21, 1995 – Your typical day of accidents, trials, civil war and the situation in Kobe, Japan where a 6.8 earthquake leveled great swaths of the city. But news for the day began with an...
January 11, 1997 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 11, 1997 – The Blizzard of ’97. When much of the nation was nailed by an arctic blast – bearing the brunt of it seemed to be the upper Midwest, where temperatures dipped...
January 10, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 10, 1995 – As the rest of the world spun quietly off on its own, SoCal was in the midst of getting soaked by a relentless series of storms, slamming in from the Pacific. Contrary...
December 28, 1977 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 28, 1977 – News from Ismailia, the latest in a series of seemingly endless talks and negotiations over a Peace settlement between the Israelis and Egyptians. Discussions on this day were about Menachem Begin’s 26-point...
November 16, 1970 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 16, 1970 – a day of profound contrasts. In the Middle East, word from Tel-Aviv that Israel may rejoin the Peace talks, even though Egypt had not withdrawn all of its missiles from a prohibited zone...
