March 9, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 9, 1991 – Desert Storm was over. The Hundred-hour war was now history. Troops were starting to come home. And hints and revelations it could have gone worse were starting to surface. Before leaving
Mutual Broadcasting – The Reviewing Stand – “Who Should Be Drafted?” – November 12, 1950. Whenever a war of undetermined duration takes place, inevitably the issue of Drafting young Americans into the various armed services get debated. During this broadcast of The Reviewing Stand, the Korean War was only five
– CBS Radio – Eric Sevareid commentary – November 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seemingly, the situations never change. In November of 1958 the big concern was the Cold War – the “control of outer space”, the situation in Berlin and the situation in the Middle East. The grumblings
A typical day during the Reagan Years – beginning with Soviet officials said today Kremlin leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s proposal for a separate U.S.-Soviet accord on ridding Europe of mediumrange nuclear missiles was aimed at ending the arms talk deadlock in Geneva. At a news conference to discuss Gorbachev’s weekend
February 27, 1979 – CBS The World Tonight + Walter Cronkite Comments – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 27, 1979 – A day up in the air, as a proposed Middle-East peace summit went. When this day started, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin said no to a proposed Camp
As days go, a rather quiet news one. Starting with word from Youngstown Florida where eight persons were killed and 67 were hospitalized after a freight train derailed early Sunday near this Florida panhandle community and a cloud of chlorine gas from a ruptured tank car spread across a nearby
February 26, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 26, 1988 – Characterized as a turbulent 18 hours in Panama, figurehead President Eric Arturo del Valle stunned the country by firing General Manuel Noriega who was his political godfather. The ploy didn’t work, as
Busy news day around Capitol Hill, this February 25, 1987 Starting off with Michael K. Deaver, the former White House deputy chief of staff and a close friend of President Reagan, has been warned that he must plead guilty to criminal charges c or face indictment by a federal grand
Four years of eternity. BBC World Service – Continuing Coverage – Invasion of Ukraine (3 Hours) – February 24, 2022 Echo Of Moscow – Vladimir Putin Address (in progress) – February 21, 2022 – In Russian. Four years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s advance has settled into a slow
– CBS – Eyewitness To History w/Walter Cronkite – Report On The Congo – February 24, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As a reminder that independence movements are often bloody, endless and convoluted struggles, you only have to look at the Independence movements that went on in Africa, starting
