Category: Day in history
Count Taleki: Incident At Budapest – Rounding Up Americans In Berlin – 579 Days Of War – April 3, 1941
– April 3, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 579 days since the War in Europe got started, April 3rd in 1941 was no less suspenseful than other days during this early phase of the war. Starting with the puzzling
The Place Is Dien Bien Phu – America Announces The H-Bomb – Russia Wants To Join NATO – March 30, 1954
– March 30, 1954 – Frank Hemingway News and Comment – Mutual Broadcasting – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 30, 1954. Word from French Indochina (Vietnam) that a desperate battle was taking place at Dien Bien Phu, a strategic French military base which had come under full-scale assault by
Cold War Muckraking – Korea – The Kremlin And Frank Costello – March 29, 1953
March 29, 1953 – ABC Radio – Drew Pearson News and Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 29, 1953 – An otherwise typical Cold War day in March – news regarding surprise moves from the Kremlin regarding the U.S. situation in Korea and the political implications of such
3-Mile Island: “Everything’s Fine – Nothing To See – Just Keep Moving” – March 28, 1979
The true seriousness of the day wasn’t really known for almost 24 hours after the initial event occurred. The Nuclear Power Plant accident at 3-Mile Island on March 28, 1979 began at 4:00 in the morning and almost instantly there was a scramble to pretend nothing was wrong. So the
Objective: Berlin – Twilight Of The Reich – The Allies Push East – March 24, 1945
NBC – Alex Drier’s Weekly News Analysis – March 24, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As reports filled the airwaves and people sat glued to their radios this March 24th in 1945, a wave of breathless optimism spread that maybe the war, at least in Europe, would be
Crossing The Rhine – Giving A World Organization A Name – Extending The Draft – March 23, 1945
News for this day was moving faster than it could be reported. With reports that the Allies had crossed The Rhine, that the 3rd Army was the latest, and that additional crossings were ready to go at any moment, news was coming in as fast as it could pass the
The Feeding Tube Of Terri Schiavo – The School Shooting In Minnesota – March 22, 2005
– News for March 22, 2005 – NPR News – Charles Osgood – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 2005 – a day of contrasts, but only if you were looking past the headlines. On this day, the dominating story was the Right-to-Death issue over
‘Hungary Calling’ – Land Grabs And Storm Clouds – March 21, 1939
– English News From Radio Budapest, Hungary – March 21, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – As the storm clouds rapidly gathered in Europe, the situation in the East was quickly developing into a hotspot. The question of Hungary and its occupation of Subcarpathia, on the heels of a
Raids Over London – Raids Over Cologne – Nazi Infiltration – Stepped Up War Production – March 20, 1941
News for this day in 1941 (the 565th day of the War in Europe) had to do with the devastating overnight raids in London, reported to be the worst in a year, since the Blitz in 1940. The target for the previous evening was the Financial District with heavy damage