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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 In the Middle East, word from Tel-Aviv that Israel may rejoin the Peace talks, even though Egypt had not withdrawn all of its missiles from a prohibited zone...
November 15, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 15, 1999 – News for this day 19 years ago. The Chairman of the NTSB was quoted as saying he hoped the mystery of Egyptair Flight 990 would be solved. Although still no...
November 13, 1970 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 13, 1970 – On this day, news from Ft. Benning, Georgia was about picking a Jury for the trial of Lt. Calley, accused in the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968. Seems getting...
November 7, 1999 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 7, 1999 – Day of mourning for the families of Egyptair Flight 990 which plunged into the ocean off Nantucket, killing all 217 passengers. So far, it’s been a slow agonizing process, getting...
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 spread...
