October 6, 1997 – NPR News – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 6, 1997 – Firsts and returns, this day 20 years ago. The first being from Capitol Hill, where President Clinton exercised the first use of the Line-Item Veto on a spending measure; an
September 19, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 19, 1978 -The day after the milestone Camp David meeting between Israel’s Manachem Begin, Egypt’s Anwar Sadat and President Carter and Carter’s address before a joint session of Congress, the nuts and bolts and rounds
August 9, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 9, 1990. Inching ever-closer to a confrontation with Baghdad, U.S. troops were arriving in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to begin deployment and training for what would inevitably be known as Desert Storm. So far, 5,000 U.S. troops
July 18, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 18, 1988 – A day starting with optimism. In Tehran, surprise word came from Government officials that they had tentatively accepted a UN agreement for a cease-fire in the almost decade old Iran-Iraq War. The
July 7, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 7, 1978 – Wholesale Prices were still going up, to the tune of 7/10% in June, with Food prices leading the way at %1.1, owing to higher costs of poultry, pork, beef and veal as
July 6, 1974 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 6, 1974 – Nixon and The Moscow Summit. A month before his unprecedented resignation, President Nixon went to Moscow to meet with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to discuss a range of issues
June 13, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup + First Line Report – Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 13, 1980 – Three was the charm for Mt. St. Helens. The infamous Volcano that covered much of the Pacific Northwest in a snowy-like coating of ash and
schis April 4, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 4, 1978 – A day where the situation in Lebanon and the Middle East took a minor backseat to the situation at the Academy Awards and the Oscars the night before. Beginning with news of the
March 8, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 8, 1990 – a day built around the operative phrase: “amid reports”, news of a day in flux all over the world. Starting with Afghanistan, where reports were sketchy, but told of a day after
February 20, 2002 – BBC World Service – World Briefing – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 20, 2002 – a view of the world this day 15 years ago. Further evidence, not much has changed. The Middle East was headlining the news this day, with reports of Israeli aircraft,
