July 6,2007 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 6, 2007 – gearing up for another “big event” – this time the cause was Planet Earth and the issue of Global Warming. Dead serious issue, treated in true Pop Culture fashion. A worldwide extravaganza, from
You remember her – like yesterday, you remember her. All about the nose. She was convinced it was the biggest thing on her body. She was convinced you were just being nice. She was convinced half the population of Culver City could live inside her nostrils. She knew, once she
– Bicentennial coverage – CBS Radio – July 4, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hard to imagine it was 50 years ago today that America celebrated its Bicentennial. July 4, 1976 was a nationwide, non-stop party – and no matter who you were or where you were, you
A clock was ticking. When The Northwestern Reviewing Stand devoted its September 14, 1947 broadcast to “Virus Research and Your Health,” it addressed one of the most promising and rapidly evolving fields of postwar medicine. America had emerged victorious from World War II with enormous scientific momentum, and much of
– Two important events for this July 3rd in 1989. First, the passing of longtime symbol of the Cold War and face of the Soviet Union, Andrè Gromyko was announced in Moscow that morning. Gromyko, who was two weeks short of his 80th birthday, died from complications after vascular surgery.
Before he entered politics, it should be noted Lyndon Johnson was a School Teacher. And even though Schools had changed considerably from when he last pored over student essays, the crisis in education in the U.S. had spiraled out of control. Coupled with the issue of School desegregation, there was
Before he was tapped by President Roosevelt to be his running-mate in the 1940 election, Henry A. Wallace was Secretary of The Agriculture. In 1933, incoming President Roosevelt nominated Wallace to assume Secretary duties at the Department of Agriculture, a post Wallace’s father, Henry Cantwell Wallace held from 1921-1924. Although
The ever-present concern: Money. When Americans tuned in to American Forum of the Air on September 17, 1950, to hear a debate over price controls, they were listening to one of the most pressing domestic issues of the early Cold War. Only three months earlier, North Korea had invaded South
Another busy day on Planet Earth. Starting with the government to disclose the Consumer Price Index for May Friday, and administration officials are expecting it to show a continuing large rise. Barry Bosworth, director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, predicted last week that the report will show
June 30, 1940 – The news was ominous and hardly upbeat. France had surrendered to Germany only days earlier. Word from Berlin was, the anticipated invasion of Britain could happen within days or weeks. Britons were expecting the worst and were preparing for it. The very young and the very
