Creation – Paris – 1967 – Past Daily Lunchroom Dinner Edition
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June 25, 1981 – President Reagan: A Slice Of Salami – Firing Squads In Iran – Women Can Skip The Draft
The view from Tehran – getting rid of the competition. A busy news day for June 25, 1981. Calling it a “slice of Salami”, President Ronald Reagan accused House Democratic leaders of trying to sabotage his budget-cutting plans and issued a public appeal for voters to speak up fast if
June 25, 1944 – Taking Cherbourg – Taking Vitebsk – Feeding Rome – A Foothold On Saipan.
June 25, 1944 – CBS World News Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 25, 1944 – busy day on all battlefronts. Starting with rumors that Cherbourg had fallen to the Allies. German radio reported the loss, while General Eisenhower’s staff were keeping mum until it was a 100%
June 24, 1947 – The World – More Difficult To Achieve Peace Than To Win Wars
– CBS Radio: Time For Reason – Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney talk – June 24, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Someone once remarked that we’ve been in an almost constant state of war and conflict since 1939 – and even then, only marginally peaceful since the months before
Selling A War: West Point And Vietnam – 1966 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
– ABC Radio – The Thin Grey Line – June 8, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In 1966 the groundswell of discontent over U.S. involvement in Vietnam and Southeast Asia was increasing in intensity. Questions were raised as to why we were there in the first place. Sure, we
June 23, 1945 – Postwar Europe – A Return To Vichy – Adjusting To Peace.
June 23, 1945 – War Telescope – NBC Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 23, 1945 – As VE continued to wear off and the business of getting back to some semblance of normalcy slowly began, the adjustments to a new life and healing the scars from
Adlai Stevenson: Friends, Enemies And Neutrals – 1956 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room.
Adlai Stevenson, address to Illinois University – May 15, 1956. No one more eloquent than Adlai Stevenson and certainly no time more appropriate than now. In the Spring of 1956, America was a nation enjoying prosperity at home but wrestling with uncertainty abroad. The Cold War, barely a decade old,
June 22, 1955 – The UN Celebrates 10 Years – Jonas Salk Reassures Congress His Vaccine Is Safe.
June 22, 1955 – News On The Hour – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 22, 1955 – News for this day had much to do with the goings on in San Francisco, site of the original meeting of the United Nations in 1945. Ten years later
It’s August 1963 – Almost A Teenager – Almost Legal – Almost, But Not Quite
Lining up for Slot Machines – You could never figure out what the big deal was. Every Summer, like Clockwork. Since you were five, since you were old enough to eat on your own – two weeks, middle of Summer. Family Vacation. Loading up the Plymouth Suburban – gassing up
June 19, 1982 – No Crying For Argentina – Broken Ceasefires Over Beirut
June 19, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 19, 1982 – A day of mixed messages and signals. With the ceasefire officially broken in Beirut, fighting continued between PLO forces and Israeli troops. Israel resumed its bombing of Beirut and firing on PLO