Category: Day in history
July 20, 1974 – An Invasion Comes To Cyprus – An Impeachment Comes To Washington
July 20, 1974 – The World This Week – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 20, 1974 – The end of a long and emotional week. On the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus tensions between Turkish and Greek Cypriots boiled over into violence, and an eventual invasion by
July 19, 1951 – Korea: A Glimmer Of Peace Talks – A Buildup Of Fresh Troops – Iran And The Oil Dispute
July 19, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow News With Don Hollenbeck – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 19, 1951 – In Korea, more talks of truce talks – more bending, negotiating, compromising – the nature of getting two sides to sit down at one table. It was looking like
July 18, 2005 – A Life Sentence – A Lack Of Remorse – Hurricane Emily Heading For Land
July 18, 2005 – CNN Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 18, 2005 – 13 years ago it was about sentencing domestic terrorists and quickly approaching hurricanes. Life in prison was the sentence for domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph for bombing a Women’s clinic in Birmingham Alabama in
July 16, 1992 – Ross Perot Says No . . . .For Now.
July 16, 1992 – Ross Perot Drops Out Of Presidential Election Bid – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 16, 1992 – Ross Perot, remember him? If you around, this day in 1992 you certainly did. You heard all about him. He was the self-made Billionaire-businessman-turned-Presidential-Hopeful who pledged to “shake
July 13, 1981 -Fruit Flies In California – Chaos In Brixton
July 13, 1981 – CBS Radio – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 13, 1981 – On this side of the Atlantic it was the uproar over Mediterranean Fruit Flies – on that side of the Atlantic it was about Long, Hot summers and Britain under
July 10, 1948 – The View From Britain: Anything But The Daily Uproar.
July 10, 1948 – CBS Radio: Report From Overseas – News From Britain – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 10, 1948 – A world weary of war, strife and chaos. In Britain on this day, a report on life in the postwar climate. The overwhelming need for distraction –
