June 11, 1949 – President Harry S. Truman – Dedication to War Memorial In Little Rock – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 11, 1949 – On this day, President Truman was dedicating a park in Little Rock, Arkansas to the memory of those killed during World War One and
Our Foreign Policy – Question of China – May 25, 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Post-war Far East. The long process of rebuilding and negotiating. The question in 1946 had much to do with China. Under attack and at war since 1937 – overrun by Japanese troops and
Although today is officially regarded as V-E day, on this day in 1945 it was surrounded by confusion. Yes, the official signing of the unconditional surrender took place at 2:00 am on May 7th, a Press blackout had been imposed. But it was a reporter for the Associated Press,
America votes – for the first time since the end of the War. There was a change afoot. The congressional Primary elections of 1946 were among the most significant midterm elections in modern American history. Held only a year after the end of the Second World War, they reflected a
The opening day of the United Nations Conference in San Francisco, this April 25th in 1945. Within days of the death of FDR and within days before the eventual collapse of Nazi Germany, the United Nations was formed out of the wreckage of The League of Nations with the hope
Harry S. Truman – Address on Army Day 1946 – April 6, 1946 – April 6, 1946 – President Truman, addressing an assembled crowd in Chicago, celebrating Army Day 80 years ago. On this day in 1946, it was almost a year to the month the War in Europe came
– NBC News Of The World – March 12, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As Europe and the rest of the world slowly rebuilt from the ravages of World War 2, another war was brewing – this one between East and West. The Cold War. Former allies, now wary
A year of contrasts, 1953 was. Between the Coronation of Princess Elizabeth to the gas chamber execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. It was an interesting year. The news on Stalin was very slow in coming. It made scant mention in the
November 12, 1949 – Voices and Events- NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The week ending November 12, 1949 – Seventy-six years ago – an election was held, the coal strike was settled and in 1949 it was still Armistice Day. Election night 1949 – the off-year election
– Mutual Broadcasting System – 11 o’clock News with Carl Caruso – October 10, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The frigid parts of the Cold War were becoming more apparent on this 10th of October in 1948. Reports of Supreme Court Justice Fred Vinson being recalled, practically mid-air en
