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Objective: Berlin – Twilight Of The Reich – The Allies Push East – March 24, 1945

NBC – Alex Drier’s Weekly News Analysis – March 24, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As reports filled the airwaves and people sat glued to their radios this March 24th in 1945, a wave of breathless optimism spread…

Crossing The Rhine – Giving A World Organization A Name – Extending The Draft – March 23, 1945

News for this day was moving faster than it could be reported. With reports that the Allies had crossed The Rhine, that the 3rd Army was the latest, and that additional crossings were ready to go at any moment, news…

‘Hungary Calling’ – Land Grabs And Storm Clouds – March 21, 1939

– English News From Radio Budapest, Hungary – March 21, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – As the storm clouds rapidly gathered in Europe, the situation in the East was quickly developing into a hotspot. The question of Hungary…

March 17, 1942

Yanks In Oz – Bombs On Rhodes – Worries About Tires – Enter: The Draft – March 17, 1942 –

– March 17, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 17, 1942 – War in the Pacific is ramping up. U.S. troops arrive on Australian soil, amid fears an invasion by Japan is imminent.…

March 16, 1942

India: Threat Of Invasion – Attacks On Port Moresby – Putting 12,000 Women In Uniform – March 16, 1942

– March 16, 1942 – News of the World – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 16, 1942 – A day where focus of attention was on the Far East and the South Pacific. Word that Sir Stafford…

Malenkov

Kremlin Intrigues: The Name Is Malenkov – Meet The New Boss – March 15, 1953 –

March 15, 1953 – Drew Pearson News – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 15, 1953 – While the world was processing the death of Soviet Premier Stalin, his replacement, Gyorgy Malenkov was quickly and quietly taking…

Tim Buckley - Starwood -1975

Tim Buckley – Live At The Starwood 1975 – Past Daily Soundbooth

At the risk of turning this week’s evening post into an homage to “those who left too early”, I nonetheless ran across this very rare Tim Buckley club date from May 1975, recorded weeks before his untimely death from a…