October 22, 1980 – The Embassy Hostage Drama And The October Surprise.
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Category: Iran
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February 20, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 20, 1979 – China reports it has “taught Vietnam a lesson” and pulled its troops back across the border, just three days after the invasion began. Peking radio reported the operation
February 14, 1979 – American Embassy In Tehran: A Dry-Run And Rehearsal Of Sorts
February 14, 1979 – CBS News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 14, 1979 – A day where the news had more ominous overtones for the future than it did the present. In the midst of all the chaos surrounding the ouster of the Shah, rebels
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October 19, 1987 – CBS Radio News – Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 19, 1987 – Going down in the history books as Black Monday, it was the day Wall Street took a tumble. Some 500 points dropped before closing time. The final tally was slow in
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July 19, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow News With Don Hollenbeck – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 19, 1951 – In Korea, more talks of truce talks – more bending, negotiating, compromising – the nature of getting two sides to sit down at one table. It was looking like
Relief And Recovery: A question Of Food – Coming Cold War: A Question Of Meddling – 1946 – UNRRA And The Russia-Iranian Dispute
Cedric Foster – News And Comment – April 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1946 signified one year since the end of World War 2. In that year, the world went from a sigh of relief to an uneasy holding of breath, to glimpses of an uncertain future. In
May 1, 1995 – A Settlement Reached, A Search Continued, A Trade Ban Imposed
May 1, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 1, 1995 – A busy news day, this First of May. Beginning with news that a settlement had been reached in the trial of Malcolm X’s granddaughter Qubilah Shabazz, who was accused of a murder-for-hire
April 9, 1980 – Threat Day In Tehran – Three Earthquakes In An Hour – A Sledge Hammer To Woody Guthrie’s House
April 9, 1980 – CBS News – Newsbreak – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 9, 1980 – Another complicated day in relations between Tehran and Washington. Today it was the threat that the hostages at the American Embassy in Tehran were to be executed
March 7, 1980 – Hostages and Primaries: Fingers Crossed
News for this day in 1980. Click on the link at the Past Daily site and give a listen to the original newscast for March 7, 1980