Eighty years ago this day, a significant milestone in history – one which, as is inevitable, is fading with time. With each successive year, less and less witnesses, less participants are left to tell the story firsthand – less people are with us to convey the enormity of what took
– CBS Radio – The Washington Week – June 5, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News around Washington, for the week ending June 5th in 1976. House Speaker Carl Albert announced his retirement this week, expressing a desire to get off Capitol Hill and back to his hometown
Further evidence that history on any particular day isn’t about one earth-shifting event, but a series of seemingly inconsequential ones that creep up from time to time and take center stage without anybody looking. On this June 4th in 1961 it was about the upcoming Vienna Summit with Soviet Prime
– June 3, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 3, 1994 – The big news of the day was President Clinton’s visit to Italy to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the allied victory in Rome. Considered by many to be the “forgotten front”,
Subscribe and help keep us going: Become a Patron! A day fairly overflowing with drama, but for different reasons and in different parts of Planet Earth for this last day of May in 1947. Starting with news that the democratically elected Premier of Hungary, Ferenc Nagy (Pronounced: Fairenz Nahhjjh) had
On this May 30 in 1961, in what began during JFK‘s campaign as a promise to visit Paris and shore up sagging relations withFrench President DeGaulle, quickly became sidetracked when a proposed summit in Vienna with Nikita Khruschev was scheduled to happen around the same time. The French visit was
Become a member – it works wonders:Become a Patron! – ABC Voices In The Headlines – May 29, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for the week, ending on this May 29th in 1966, was mostly about our inevitable plunge into the quagmire called Vietnam. Rioting had erupted
Become a member and don’t miss a thing: Become a Patron! Seemingly no end to scandal where Capitol Hill is concerned. For this May 28th in 1989 the specter of Ethics reared its inquiring head and its victims were the House Speaker and the House Whip. As always, money was
– May 27, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 27, 1978 was a day full of caution. Cautious optimism, cautious crossing of t’s and dotting of i’s, cautious anticipation of some kind of peace – whether it was East-West or Africa or war
Coffee? – NPR – All Things Considered – May 26, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1997 was officially Memorial Day. And so May 26th was given over, mostly in the U.S. to observance of that day. And even though the news was made up primarily
