April 3, 1969 – ABC News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 3, 1969. Spring in the era of discontent. From Chicago, a second night of disturbances on the eve of the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Tensions and apprehension ran high. Already an outbreak
April 2, 1979 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 2, 1979 – The nuclear Power plant accident at Three Mile Island, near Harrisburg Pennsylvania was continuing. Amid signs of optimism that the #2 reactor didn’t completely melt down, officials were upbeat that the worst of
April 1, 1979 – News – Bulletins – Carter Press Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 1, 1979 – the situation at the 3 Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant had already gone into the history books as the worst Nuclear Power Plant accident in U.S.history. On this day,
April 1, 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy Press Conference – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 1, 1968. A day after President Johnson announced his decision not to seek re-election, the focus was now on Robert F. Kennedy, who announced his candidacy on March 16th. On March 31, President Johnson
March 31, 1971 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 31, 1971 – Lt. William Calley, convicted in the massacre of 22 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai in 1968 was handed the sentence on this day. The jury was given only one of two possibilities
March 30, 1951 – CBS Radio: Hear It Now with Edward R. Murrow – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 30, 1951 – What this week sounded like in 1951, and a look at Hollywood at a crossroads. A week loaded with drama – from hearings on Organized Crime to
– NBC Radio – Don Hollenbeck And The News – News Of The World – March 27, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this March 27th in 1945 had mostly to do with rumors. Rumor a German surrender and VE Day was in the offing. Rumor the War
– ABC World News This Week – Week Ending March 26, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection For the week ending, this March 26, 1989 – much of the “big ticket” news had to do with vague, unconfirmed Terrorist threats received by the State Department ahead of Easter Week,
March 25, 1998 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 25, 1998 – In the small Arkansas town of Jonesboro, gunfire erupted at Westside Middle School where four students and a teacher were killed the previous day by a jilted 13 year-old boy and his
March 24, 1995 -CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 24, 1995 – A busy day on Capitol Hill, with passage of the Line-Item Veto 69-29, President Clinton got what President Reagan had been asking for. It enabled the President the remove “pork barrel” spending so
