August 4, 1964 – A Tonkin State Of Mind – LBJ Addresses Gulf Of Tonkin Indicent
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August 3, 1951 – When Scandal Hit An Institution – West Point In Crisis
August 3, 1951 – CBS: Edward R. Murrow News With Don Hollenbeck – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 3, 1951 – Scandal was the word this day. News broke that some 90 Cadets at the prestigious West Point Military Academy had been given General Discharges over cheating on exams
Pierre Dervaux, Vincent Geminiani And The ORTF Chamber Orchestra Play Music Of Raymond Loucheur – 1963 – Past Daily Weekend
– Raymond Loucheur – Concerto For Percussion And Orchestra – 1963 – ORTF Radio Session Something special tonight. I haven’t really played much in the way of 1960s contemporary French Orchestra sessions via ORTF. So when I ran across this performance of Raymond Loucheur’s Concerto For Percussion and Orchestra, featuring
The Beatles – Paris – 1965 – Past Daily Saturday Brunch
– The Beatles – Live At Palais Des Sports – Afternoon (first) show – June 20, 1965 – RFI Since there’s been so much written of late about The Beatles and the whole era which became known as The British Invasion, I thought I would take a listen to
Housing The Homeless In 1988 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
CBS Radio – Newsmark: Housing the Homeless – January 17, 1988 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When CBS Radio’s Newsmark aired its documentary Housing the Homeless on January 17, 1988, homelessness had become one of the defining social issues of the Reagan era. Images of families living in shelters, men
July 31, 1950 – Ominous Day In Korea – Agenda Wrangling At The UN
– Edward R. Murrow and The News with Larry Lesueur – July 31, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – News for this day, 76 years ago, was about the ongoing war in Korea and the delicate maneuvering taking place at the United Nations at their temporary headquarters at Lake
Pushing An Unpopular Cause, Making An Unconvincing Case – Dean Rusk – July 30, 1967
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July 29, 1981 – Amidst Royal Pomp And Splendor: Prince Charles And Lady Diana – Trouble In Liverpool – Bani Sadr Jets To Paris
A Royal Wedding – The world watched – History waited. A day of pomp and ceremony, this July 29th in 1981. Hundreds of thousands of joyful Britons, taking a break from the strains of a difficult summer, lined the route of the royal wedding procession to cheer their crown prince
July 29, 1977 – The Oil Flows In Alaska – Ali Bhutto Returns – Kent State Redux Of A Sort.
July 29, 1977 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 29, 1977 – A day with ominous implications, but not at the time. After postponement due to protests, the much touted Trans-Alaskan Pipeline, some 800 miles long, commenced to working with oil flowing from the
July 27, 1982 – Still Looking For A Solution To The Beirut Crisis – The Talk And Shell Game – Sanctions And Grain Sales
July 27, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – Newsbreak – 9:00 News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Juy 27, 1982 – News from Beirut this day. U.S. envoy Philip Habib was on his way to Israel to meet with Menachem Begin in an attempt to fin a solution