Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + 9:00 am News – October 31, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Starting off the day with a tragedy, this October 31st in 1979. Beginning with news of a Western Airlines DC-10 from Los
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – September 25, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Africa was a hotbed of change, this September 25th in 1979. With the overthrow of the Central African Emperor Bokassa, who likened himself to Napoleon and ordered massacres
Click on the link here for our DONATION PAGE – Indiegogo/Past Daily/Gordon Skene Sound Collection Fundraiser As you probably all know by now, we’ve been having a Fundraiser. In connection with Fractured Atlas and Indiegogo, Past Daily is in the middle of raising funds to continue our preservation and restoration
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Hourly News – September 8, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Shades of October 1962, this day in September 35 years ago. A flurry of reports claiming the presence of Soviet troops on Cuban soil brought a wave of paranoia
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup + The World Tonight – August 22, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A busy and controversial day – no less controversial than the abrupt resignation from UN Ambassadorship of Andrew Young, who announced his leaving in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – August 6, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this August 6th in 1980 was decidedly political in nature. It was a Presidential election year. The Popularity/promise-them-anything campaign was in full swing. The latest was
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – May 2, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection May 2nd in 1979 saw the last full day of campaigning for the Parliamentary elections in Britain. Labour Prime Minister James Callahan and opposition Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Hourly News – December 9, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection For those who hadn’t hear it, the news of the shooting death of John Lennon the night before reverberated all over the world, this December 9th in 1980. Stunned
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – October 21, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this October 21st in 1978 had much to do with the continuing, on-again-off-again-stop-and-start Egyptian-Israeli Peace Talks going on at Camp David. Hitting snags on a seemingly
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for July 17, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this July 17th in 1979 began with word that Nicaraguan strong-man Anastasio Somoza resigned and went into exile. Short, sweet and to the point. The
