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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– December 20, 1981 – CBS Radio News on The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 20, 1981. Troubling word from Poland this day. The Military crackdown on Solidarity spread from Gdansk to Warsaw and throughout the country.…
CBS World News Roundup + 9:00 am News with Richard C. Hottelet – November 26, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran spiraled quickly out of control, this November 26th in 1979, the…
– CBS World News Roundup – November 9, 1987 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ironically, November 9, 1987 landed on a Monday – and like many Mondays before and after, it was a day filled with drama, madness and…
CBS World News Roundup – Friday, November 8, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this November 8th in 1991 had mostly to do with reaction to the shocking disclosure the previous evening that Basketball legend Magic Johnson…
– CBS Radio: The World This Week – November 4, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what became the opening day of an odyssey, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was attacked on November 4, 1979, overrun with over…
– CBS Radio – The Washington Week – October 13, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Following the surprise announcement of President Nixon’s choice of Gerald Ford as his Number 2, all of Washington was going into overdrive with…
– CBS World News Roundup – October 8, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A day loaded with negotiations, decisions and protest, this October 8th in 1977. Beginning with the UN and the question of Middle-East Peace talks, or…
NPR – All Things Considered – October 7, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The big news for this October 7th in 1981 was about the assassination of President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. The 62-year old Egyptian leader was…
– CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 5, 1987 – Day 4 and the earth kept shaking around Southern California. In what became known as the Whittier Narrows Earthquake, scores of aftershocks kept nervous Angelenos…
For the seventh time since she took office four years earlier, Philippines President Corazon Aquino was faced with yet another military coup. From 1986 to 1990 numerous coup attempts were enacted on the Aquino administration and the new Philippine government.…