June 21, 1977 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 21,1977 – the day oil flowed through the middle of Alaska and Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was hiding somewhere out of plain sight. First off was news on the economy. The Labor Department released its
June 19, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 19, 1982 – A day of mixed messages and signals. With the ceasefire officially broken in Beirut, fighting continued between PLO forces and Israeli troops. Israel resumed its bombing of Beirut and firing on PLO
French Elections of 1951 – NBC Radio: Yesterday,Today and Tomorrow – June 17, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sixty-six years ago today, France went to the polls. This time to elect the Second national Assembly of the Fourth Republic. After World War 2, the three major political parties
June 15, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 15, 1988 – With the Soviet Union’s Mikhail Gorbachev receiving mixed marks for his Perestroika reforms, all eyes in Moscow were gazing towards the south and regions of Armenia and Azerbaijan as a potential flashpoint
July 14, 1973 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 14, 1973 – News about Watergate took centerstage this day. Deputy Director of CREEP (Committee To Re-Elect The President) pointed fingers and named names. The biggest name was Attorney General John Mitchell, whom he claimed knew
June 12, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 12, 1981 – America‘s Great National Pastime took a vacation this day. With talks between Players and Team Owners breaking down one last time, a strike was called and the
June 9, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 9, 2000 – The big news this day were findings of a Justice Department investigation into Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination and concluding that it was not the object of a conspiracy,
June 8, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup + Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 8, 1982 – Busy news day in 1982. President Reagan addresses Parliament during this second trip to the UK. With Cold War issues, and Britain in the midst of the Falkland Islands
June 7, 2001 – BBC World Service – The World Today: Special Election Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 7, 2001 – Britain went to the polls this day. And for a historic second time, The Labour Party of Tony Blair won re-election. But, it was also noted,
June 6, 1976 – The World This Week – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 6, 1976, a Sunday in 1976 which capped off a week of tragedies, intrigues and scandals. Starting off with news of the Teton Dam collapse in Idaho, causing mass flooding and at
