February 15, 1999 – BBC World Service – Newshour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 15, 1999 – What the world was looking at this day. From the BBC World Service, a look at what was happening – and there was much. Beginning with news of Iraqi complaints over
February 14, 1979 – CBS News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 14, 1979 – A day where the news had more ominous overtones for the future than it did the present. In the midst of all the chaos surrounding the ouster of the Shah, rebels
February 13, 1941 – Generalissimo Franco – Marshal Petain Summit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 13, 1941 – With the war escalating in Europe, and the U.S. still reasonably out of it, reports of a meeting between Spanish dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Vichy French Premier Marshal Petain
February 12, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12, 2001 – An interesting day for the courts and the Music Business in general. Popular song-file swap service Napster was spared from an immediate shutdown today, but a US appeals court ruled
February 8, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 8, 1994 – A busy day for newsrooms. The Odyssey of the Tailhook scandal was continuing – this time, a military judge in Norfolk, Virginia concluded that the Navy’s top Admiral had witnessed nudity and
February 7, 1947 – BBC World Service- London Letter – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 7, 1947 – A Freeze this day – a large and cold weather front was sweeping across the UK in 1947. It happens like clockwork – Britain and in fact most of Europe go
LBJ and The 89th Congress – CBS Radio: Capitol Cloakroom – January 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The crazy-quilt of Politics. In 1967 it was the end of the 89th Congress and the beginning of the 90th Congress. It was the Johnson Era – of groundbreaking legislation that
February 5, 1942 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 5, 1942 – depending on what part of the world you were in, your view of the War was varying differently, and the scale from optimism to downright pessimism was fluctuating
February 5, 1996 -CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 5, 1996 – A busy news day with contrasts. The body of Sgt. Donald Dugan was heading back to Ohio this day, the first U.S. Peacekeeper to be killed in Bosnia. Dugan, who was killed over
February 5, 2000 – CBS Weekend Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 5, 2000 – a Saturday, and a wrapup of the week’s important stories from CBS News – starting with the New Hampshire Republican and Democratic primaries. Arizona Senator John McCain scored an huge upset victory over
