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April 5, 1945 – Interview with Mutual Reporter Don Bell. Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1945 – Aside from the day to day news reports from the front and the Capitols involved in the War, much air time was spent interviewing those people who played, in some cases...
April 5, 1968 – Dr. Martin Luther King Assassination – The Day After – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1968 – A day of sadness, confusion and rage. Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot and killed in Memphis on the evening of April 4th....
Since April 2, 1980 was right in the middle of Presidential Primary season, most of the news for this day had to do with the recently completed Wisconsin and Kansas Primaries and the telling results. Carter won handily, putting Ted Kennedy in a distant 2nd place. California Governor Jerry Brown...
April 1, 1979 – The World This Week – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 1, 1979 – ending a week of wild contrasts and mood swings. The joyful news out of the Middle-East was the Egypt-Israeli Peace Accord, which had finally been agreed on, hammered out...
In what was previously described as a strategic withdrawal of South Vietnamese forces from key provinces, became a rout as South Vietnamese soldiers abandoned weapons and equipment and fled in front of advancing North Vietnamese troops, heading to Saigon. As word spread, panic set in as the Saigon government attempted...
March 31, 1979 – Continuous news reports – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 31, 1979 – All eyes on an otherwise obscure community near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant facility was in danger of melting down, potentially turning disaster into...
News for this last day of March in 1990 had much to do with the rapidly-becoming-former Soviet Union. March 1990 was Lithuania’s turn – a move was underway to break with the Soviet Union and become an independent nation no longer under the influence of Moscow. Despite repeated warnings from...
March 30, 1942 – Roundup Of War News – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 30, 1942. In sharp contrast to news broadcasts via Shortwave from Japanese and German sources, the news coming from America was considerably more upbeat and aimed at maintaining high morale in...
A busy and “interesting” news day, this March 30th in 1948. Starting with news on the upcoming elections in Italy, which were awash in violence and fears of a Communist sweep. Riots claimed 6 persons in the last two days and it was enough to call together the parties and...
March 30, 1981 – Starting off normal, unremarkable in so many ways – but by mid-morning East Coast time, pandemonium had broken out. President Reagan, on his way out of the Washington Hilton, where he had just finished delivering an address to a group of trade unionists at the AFofL/CIO...
