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May 24, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 24, 1994 – U.S. and Japanese negotiators reached a compromise in Washington discussions about Trade talks. The first round of negotiations collapsed in February were now looking for a restart with a common understanding on...
May 22, 1989 – CBS Radio News on the Hour + Reports from KNX, Los Angeles – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 22, 1989 – The eyes of the world (at least most of it) were focused on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, as protests to the hardline government of...
May 21, 1984 – CBS Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 21, 1984. El Salvador President-elect José Napoléon Duarté conferred with President Reagan at the White House earlier this day. As he left, he told reporters the watchword of his administration, which was to begin in...
May 17, 1975 – CBS Radio The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 17, 1975 – End of a busy week. With the Mayguez incident resolved, with President Ford announcing the two-day crisis was over, it was now time to look at the incident itself and...
May 15, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup – Newsbreak – 9:00 am news – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 15, 1980 – A day so busy with news it was hard to know where to begin. The tide of refugees fleeing Cuba via boats...
Nguyen Cao Ky – ABC Issues and Answers – May 11, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Nguyen Cao Ky; former Air Marshall of the South Vietnamese air force, former Premier, former vice-President – and in 1975, celebrated refugee living in a Refugee center at Camp Pendleton after the...
May 6, 1989 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 6, 1989 – Busy day, even for a Saturday in 1989. Starting with the weather. Tornados and thunderstorms were busy reeking havoc throughout the South. At least 16 people were reported dead as the result...
NBC Radio – University Of Chicago Roundtable – Natural Resources, President Truman’s Bold New Plan – February 13, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In his inaugural address of 1949, President Harry S. Truman called for a “bold new program”, to be known as Point Four, as part of...
April 23, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 23, 1979 – With Capitol Hill out of recess and lawmakers heading back from Easter recess, there was lot on the table to haggle over. President Carter also came back this day from Georgia, where...
President Eisenhower: Address to American Society Of Newspaper Editors – April 17, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – President Eisenhower took this opportunity, by way of addressing The American Society Of Newspaper Editors, to announce his proposal to reorganize The Pentagon, describing it as a “blueprint for safety and...
