– Sen. J. William Fulbright on Issues and Answers – June 23, 1963 – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this June 23rd in 1963 had much to do with our Foreign Policy. June 23 in 1963 was a Sunday, and so the day was given over
– CBS World News Roundup – June 13, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this particular June 13th, there was talk of yet another intervention in another country’s political turmoil. In 1994 the subject was Haiti and the Military regime which overthrew the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in
A day where things looked particularly grim, this May 21st, 85 years ago. With the German Army advancing into Belgium and crossing into France, and with the French Army in a state of disarray and chaos, the situation was looking bleaker by the hour. The British Army, now heading to
– CBS World News Roundup – May 14, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this May 14th in 1984 was hopeful, as far as the kidnapped Americans in Sri Lanka were concerned. Word surfaced the rebel group holding the tourists, Stanley and Mary Allen, were relenting on
On a day where crises were popping up seemingly everywhere, the focus on this February 7th in 1964 was the flare-up of bad relations with Cuba and threats by the Castro regime against our military base at Guantanamo. The flap began over the seizing of four Cuban fishing trawlers off
– CBS World News Roundup – February 5, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – And things were heating up in the Middle East, this day 46 years ago. Ayatollah Khomeini appointed Scholar and pro-democracy advocate Mehdi Bazargan as head of the provisional government in Iran. It was an escalation
– CBS Radio: The World This Week – February 3, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The big news for the week which ended on this February 3rd in 1980 was the successful escape of 6 Americans who had barely avoided being part of the 50 other Americans held
– BBC World Service – Newshour – January 29, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day, fifteen years ago, was about limits being reached, endurance vanished and nerves frayed out of existence. The War in Kosovo, indeed the strife enveloping the entire region formerly known as
America’s Town Meeting – March 23, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the world was inching closer to all-out war, the debate raged over how much should the U.S. get involved? Much of the question lay over how much influence was being wielded by outside interests on public
– BBC News – Palestinian Elections – CBS News – Condoleeza Rice Interview – Jan 25-27, 2006 – 19 years ago, things changed in Gaza. Hamas, an organization labeled by many governments as a terrorist organization decided to don political attire and go after a popular election. In what was
