February 2, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 2, 1985 – The day started with a prison uprising. Inmates at the Oklahoma Reformatory in Pendleton went on a rampage over an inmate search at Breakfast and finally ended with a negotiated peace by
Leonard Bernstein – Symphony Nr. 3 “Kaddish” – Boston Symphony, conducted by Charles Munch – January 10, 1964 – BSO Broadcast An American premier of a work by one of Americas most notable Cultural figures; Leonard Bernstein. His Symphony Number 3, subtitled Kaddish was dedicated as a memorial to
Something unusual this weekend – a sweep of the radio dial during a typical, unassuming day in 1936. Some of it is May and some of it is December and there’s one snippet from November 11th 1936 on the occasion of Armistice Day. When local radio was the life’s blood
– CBS Radio News – January 29, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection 26 years ago, on January 29, 2000 the news was about protestors disrupting the Economic Summit in Davos Switzerland, where President Clinton was scheduled to make an address and where questions regarding the U.S. government’s acknowledgement that
Saturday Night Massacre – CBS Radio News Bulletins – October 19-20, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The infamous Saturday Night Massacre. At the height of the Watergate Scandal and the eventual toppling of the Nixon Presidency, the move to oust Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, which was met by
A NASA official said today that one of the three astronauts | trapped aboard the Apollo 1 spacecraft was able to report the disastrous flash fire an instant before the three men perished. “One of the astronauts said the spacecraft’,” Apollo program, Phillips manager told Maj. a news Gen. conference.
January 27, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 27, 1988. Another kidnapping in Beirut and more testimony in the John “Ivan The Terrible” Demjanjuk trial. Word on this morning from Beirut that another German businessman had been kidnapped. This one, a West German
Even after the assassination of President Kennedy, some nine days earlier, the issue of Berlin and West Germany in general were constant reminders that, even with a nation in grief, the Cold War plodded on. Ludwig Erhard had been Chancellor for barely six weeks, and Kennedy’s death cast an unexpected
January 26, 1979 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 26, 1979 – The big news came towards the end of the day. Bulletins hit the airwaves that former four-time New York Governor and vice-President Nelson Rockefeller had died suddenly of a massive heart attack at
Gregor Piatigorsky in conversation with James Day – Day At Night – May 24, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Gregor Piatigorsky. Without question one of the greatest cellists of the 20th century, and to some the greatest string player of all time. The Ukranian born American cellist settled
