August 17, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 17, 2001 – A day of weather extremes. The fire danger in the Pacific Northwest had gone from Bad to Extreme, with wildfires consuming acres to the tune of 600,000 with no end
August 14, 1978 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 14, 1978 – On this day 40 years ago, President Jimmy Carter addressed a gathering of the Mid-Continent Farmers Association. In what was initially billed as a “Major Foreign Policy Address”, the address
August 11-16, 1965 – KMPC Reports/Newscasts – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Become a Patron! On the evening of Wednesday, August 11, 1965, 21-year-old Marquette Frye, an African-American man driving his mother’s 1955 Buick, was pulled over by California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer Lee Minikus for allegedly reckless driving .After
August 10, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – 9:00 am Network News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 10, 1982 – A day of holding breath . . .yet again. Word reached the newsroom early on this day that Israel had accepted, at least in principle, the peace
August 7, 1978 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection August 7, 1978 – Day of mourning throughout the world. News of the death of Pope Paul VI from a major heart attack at his summer residence the night before became the dominant piece of
The Green Telescope In session – January 11, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 – The Green Telescope – BBC 1986 Diving into relative obscurities tonight with The Green Telescope; a somewhat short-lived band (under that name), but who offered a few tantalizing coming-attractions of what was around the corner with
August 6, 1974 – CBS Radio News – NBC News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1974 – if you were around at the time, and you were like most everyone, you were glued to your TV or radio. Because the news from Washington was
Past Daily’s Thousand Yard Stare – The Weekly Podcast – Click on me and Subscribe. You knew it had to happen sooner or later – since I take requests and suggestions seriously, somebody said “hey, you should do a podcast!” – okay; one more thing to add to my daily
