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Patrons: You know what to do: Become a Patron! Richard Nixon – as calls for his impeachment grew as his popularity dropped to the lowest point of any President since Harry Truman in 1953, the threat and very real possibility of impeachment grew daily. And so on August 15, 1973,...
Subscribers can get this download for free: Become a Patron! Waking up to the news this morning in 1967 had much to do with the endless war of attrition in Vietnam. The ongoing battle, mounting casualties and airstrikes near the Marine outpost at Con Thien. The theory being to destroy...
Subscribers can download for free: Become a Patron! September 18,1978 – After months of diplomatic wrangling and some 13 days of intense one-on-one negotiations, a Middle-East Peace accord was finally hammered out between Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, Israel’s Menachem Begin and President Jimmy Carter. On the occasion of arriving at a...
– Become a Patron! September 6, 1975 – Busy news week. With the attempted assassination (the second one in so many weeks), President Ford was starting to wonder about laid-back California, but it wasn’t deterring him from making public appearances and “pressing the flesh” which he insisted on doing, no...
August 21, 1982 – News from Beirut, Paris and Lima, Peru this day. In Beirut, the fragile nature of a truce and the evacuation withdrawal of PLO troops was momentarily marred by the capture of an Israeli citizen by Palestinians. As the first 400 PLO fighters were boarding a ship...
Become a Patron! July 31, 1947 – While New York City baked in the sticky heat, the scene at the UN meeting in Lake Success was overheating with strife, overthrow and discontent. The United Nations, whose temporary headquarters was at Lake Success, was dealing with a wide range of potentially...
Become a Patron! July 26, 1982 – West Beirut was the scene of the 5th straight day of Israeli raids – bombing targets purported to belong to the PLO as well as residential districts along the coast. At first, some called it a breakthrough on the Beirut crisis. Yassar Arafat,...
April 18, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 18, 1994 – Starting with historic news from South Africa. It was learned today that South Africa’s leader achieved a milstone breakthrough under which The Inkatha Freedom Party would be able to join the first-ever...
April 17, 2001 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 17, 2001 – Busy news day – The Bush White House suddenly turned Green, letting stand a Clinton-era rule on Lead. The White House announcement drew criticism from the industrial sector, who were now obligated...
March 27, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 27, 1978 – The 16-week old Coal Miners strike was looking to be at an end – for the most part. Most of the Soft Coal Miners went back to work, their nationwide walkout at...
