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December 3, 1944 – CBS World News Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection December 3, 1944 – Even for a Sunday in 1944, this was a busy day on all war fronts. American B-29’s staged raids over Tokyo, targeting the Nakajima Aircraft factory, and by all accounts the raid was
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October 14, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 14, 1991 – The melodrama of the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings was over, but the dilemma stuck around. To millions of Americans, the final judgement over whether or not Clarence Thomas did harass Anita Hill
– NBC Nightly News With Chet Huntley and David Brinkley – July 10, 1970 – Had there not been so much drama, deceit and upheaval associated with the decade of the 70s, it might have been called “The Goofy Decade”, there was no shortage of strange occurrences taking place during
Busy month for scandals, revelations and upheavals. September in 1963 was no different, it seems. On this day in September, the McClellan Crime Committee Hearings on Capitol Hill were going full speed ahead, with star witness, organized crime figure Joseph Valachi poised to give bomb-dropping evidence on the activities of
September 23, 1938; another crisis had boiled up in Europe, threatening to plunge the world into another war. This time it was a land dispute between Germany and Czechoslovakia, with whom Germany claimed Czech territory to be theres and was willing to go to war over it. The crisis, which
– News for the week ending September 16, 1980 – ABC Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hard to forget this week in September of 1980 was all about the Presidential Election campaign and the upcoming debates between Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and that thorn in both of
– Voices and Events for week ending September 10, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A week where the vagaries of Human Nature went haywire, this Septmeber 10th in 1949. Starting with news of a deadly mass shooting in Camden New Jersey. The lone gunman, Howard Unruh, claiming people
After the initial shock of invasion came the scramble to take sides. Italy pledged alliance with Germany. France and Britain declared alliance with Poland. Portugal claimed neutrality. The sides were lining up. Meanwhile, the German Army had crossed into Poland and was taking prisoners. This second day of hostilities in
