Category: Day in history
September 26, 1990 – Meeting, Haggling, Compromising; Finger-Pointing – Capitol Hill. Meanwhile In Baghdad . . .
September 26, 1990 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 26, 1990 – Despite the relative calm in the Middle East this day, the scene on Capitol Hill back home was anything but. Haggling and finger-pointing over the Federal Budget, days before the
September 24, 2000 – Yugoslavia Heads To The Polls – Police Round Up Suspects In Jakarta Bombing – A Japanese Athlete Makes History At Sydney Olympics
September 24, 2000 – BBC World Service – World Briefing/News – BBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 24, 2000 – Momentous day on the world stage – voters in unprecedented numbers lined up at polling places all over Yugoslavia to vote what many considered to be a
September 21, 1990 – Saddam Hussein: “Prepare For The Mother And Father Of All Battles”.
September 21, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 21, 1990 – As the wheels of war began to ratchet up louder and faster, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein took to the airwaves, breaking into the running of a popular Iraqi TV comedy to inform everyone
September 13, 1982 – Tragedy In Malaga – No Wrong-Doing For Donovan – Westmoreland Wants A Cool $120 Million –
September 13, 1982 – CBS News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 13, 1982 – Busy news day – with reports of a Chartered DC-10 crashing on takeoff on a flight bound for New York from Malaga Spain, filled with returning American tourists. As the hours
September 12, 2000 – Politics 2000 – Much Ado About Tires – Darryl And The Blackouts – Florence Comes Of Age
September 12, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup; Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 12, 2000 – 2000 was, after all, an election year. And with every election comes the rash of controversial ads giving off one message or another. This time it was a TV ad
Madame Chiang-Kai Shek And The War With Japan -1937 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Become a Patron! – CBS – Madame Chiang-Kai Shek – Talk From Shanghai – September 11, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what became known as the Second Sino-Japanese War (the First, lasting from July 1894-April 1895), The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between
September 10, 1988 – Another Hurricane Named Florence – With Gilbert In The Wings
September 10, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 10, 1988 – I don’t know if misery really ever liked company, but on this particular September 10, twenty years ago, we were dealing with the affects of Hurricane Florence. Hurricane Florence was the third