April 11, 1942 – Message From Bataan – Deciphering A Pessimistic Picture.
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April 7, 1965 – LBJ: “This Will Be A Disorderly Planet For A Long Time” – The Deepening Vietnam War.
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April 6, 1945 – Word From Okinawa – Operation Iceberg Underway.
April 6, 1945 – Reports from Don Pryor, Mutual Broadcasting – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 6, 1945 – The invasion of Okinawa had begun on the morning of April 1, 1945 – dubbed Operation Iceberg, it represented the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific Theater of World War
April 5, 1968 – Death Of Martin Luther King – The Morning After – A Nation On Notice.
Newsfront – Special report/Discussion – April 5, 1968 – Eastern Educational Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1968 – When Dr. Martin Luther King jr. died in a Memphis hospital at around 7 pm, an hour after he was gunned down while standing on the balcony of
April 4, 1944 – Raids In The Pacific – Landings At Bougainville – B-17’s Over Bucharest.
April 4, 1944 – Alka-Seltzer News Of The World – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 4, 1944 – News for this day was sweeping and fast moving. From the Pacific came word raids over several Japanese-held islands and major damage to shipping and installations. Also word that
March 30, 1979 – Suddenly Three Mile Island
– March 30, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 30, 1979 – news from Pennsylvania around the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant was drawing concern. First reported as a minor incident-quickly taken-care-of, to complications to worry. In retrospect, things were quickly spiraling
March 29, 1942 – Raid On Nazaire Postmortem – Demonstrations For A Second Front – India And The Carrot Of Independence –
– WGN – News for March 29, 1942 – The really interesting and somewhat prophetic news on this March 29th in 1942, was buried towards the end of what were daily reports from the Front. The war was dragging on. Britain was staging a series of raids on Germany and
March 22, 1942 – Assault On Malta – Invasion Jitters – Shakeup In The War Room – Senate Investigations
– March 22, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 1942 – The world still at war, the stakes getting higher – the threat of a Japanese invasion of Australia getting more likely – the lone British island in the Mediterranean, Malta, was
March 21, 1942 – War News: Menace To Convoys – Something Big Starting In The Middle-East – Situation In Burma –
March 21, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 21, 1942 – Busy day on the fighting fronts. First, with news from Britain that the Admiralty disclosed British submarines had sunk two large German supply ships in the Mediterranean and news that the German
March 17, 1942 – Greetings! The First Wartime Draft Lottery – A Nation Gears Up.
– Wartime Draft Lottery – March 17, 1942 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The First Draft Lottery to take place in wartime took place on this day in 1942. Into a giant fishbowl went many thousands of numbers, all corresponding to dates of birth for men