April 5-8, 1994 – News reports and comments on the death of Kurt Cobain – KROQ-FM, KNX-AM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1994 -Although it wasn’t reported until April 8th, when an electrician coming in to do repairs at the Cobain home found his body, dead from
April 4, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 4, 1987 – Pope John Paul II visits Chile and gets a glimpse of the violence in the streets of Santiago while conducting an open air Mass. Demonstrators, protesting the oppressive military dictatorship of Augusto
April 3, 1976 – NBC News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 3, 1976 – A busy news day everywhere – Beginning with news that Egypt’s Anwar Sadat was in Paris to meeting with French President d’Estaing in search of military support and hardware in Europe.
Senator Peter H. Dominick – NBC Radio: Meet The Press – April 2, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 2, 1967 – The war in Vietnam was grinding on – almost three years since the infamous Gulf of Tonkin, but a year before the 1968 elections. Turning point
March 29, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 29, 1995 – Drugs seemed to be the theme of news this day. Police in Pacific Palisades, California concluded that the previous night’s gunshot death of Actor Carroll O’Connor’s son Hugh was a suicide. O’Connor
March 28, 1992 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection- March 28, 1992 – Lawyers representing Libya went before the World Court and accused the U.S. and Britain of using threats in order to obtain the surrender of two Libyans, suspected in the PanAm Flight 103 bombing
March 27, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 27, 1978 – The 16-week old Coal Miners strike was looking to be at an end – for the most part. Most of the Soft Coal Miners went back to work, their nationwide walkout at
March 26, 1966 – ABC Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 26, 1966 – A day loaded with trouble – The flight of Gemini 8 was hampered by what was later discovered to be a short circuit in the Number 8 Thruster of the spacecraft. Astronauts Neil
March 22, 1993 – broadcasts from Radio 21, Kosovo – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The war consuming the former Yugoslavia. Following the Slovenian and Croatian secessions from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1991, the multi-ethnic Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina – which was inhabited by mainly
March 22, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 1979 – On this day, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano would be making a speech later in New York and was expected to unveil President Carter’s long awaited position on National Health Insurance. According to
