Category: Day in history
November 15, 1999 – Egyptair 990: Prayers On A Cockpit Flight Recorder – SCOTUS: Prayers On A High School Football Field – A Nurse Convicted Of Killing, Rather than Healing
November 15, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 15, 1999 – News for this day 19 years ago. The Chairman of the NTSB was quoted as saying he hoped the mystery of Egyptair Flight 990 would be solved. Although still no
November 6, 1973 – Watergate And The Tale Of Rosemary Woods – The Not-So-Secret-Secret-Tapes
November 6, 1973 – NBC Nightly News (Audio) – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 6, 1973 – A year after his re-election, President Nixon was knee-deep in Watergate wreckage. On this particular day, it was about maneuvering of the so-called “Secret Tapes”. Federal Judge John Sirica was closeted with
November 2, 1974 – Rockefeller Confirmation Gets Rocky – Down To The Wire On Mid-Terms
November 2, 1974 – CBS Radio: The Washington Week In Review – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 2, 1974 – With days away from the 1974 Mid-Term elections, politics seemed to be the only thing on peoples minds. Unless you were on Capitol Hill, in which case you were
October 30, 1998 – Truth And Reconciliation – Car Bomb Attacks In Gaza – John Glenn Back In Space
October 30, 1998 – BBC World Service Newshour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 30, 1998 – A momentous day for South Africa; the publication and release of the final Truth and Reconciliation report took place on this day. At a ceremony in Pretoria, Commission Chairman Desmond Tutu presented
October 26, 2000 – Social Security And Fuzzy Math – School Violence Down Since 1992 – Pickpocket Granny
October 26, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 26, 2000 – With Election 2000 days away, the campaign was on the final sprint to the finish line. As one of the main concerns of this election season, the issue of Social
October 22, 1990 – The Fiscal Dance – The Hostage Gesture – The Clampdown – A High Seas Confrontation
October 22, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 22, 1990 – A day of turmoil and wrangling. On Capitol Hill, the battle over the budget was continuing, three weeks into the new fiscal year, Congressional leaders were still trying to come up with
October 19, 1987 -Black Monday – The Stock Market Crash Of 1987
October 19, 1987 – CBS Radio News – Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 19, 1987 – Going down in the history books as Black Monday, it was the day Wall Street took a tumble. Some 500 points dropped before closing time. The final tally was slow in