Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – July 1, 1998 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Starting off with depressing news for this first day of July in 1998. The World AIDS Conference in Geneva disclosed a new strain of the virus is proving
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Meet The Press – vice-President Dick Cheney – September 19, 2003 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the current situation in Iraq spirals out of control, and as the much-predicted Civil War begins to make itself clear, I am reminded that
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – June 19,1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another day in history fairly groaning with dismal familiarity, this June 19th in 1995. The six-day hostage drama at Budyonnovsk Hospital in Southern Russia finally came to an end,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio – The Thin Grey Line – June 8, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In 1966 the groundswell of discontent over U.S. involvement in Vietnam and Southeast Asia was increasing in intensity. Questions were raised as to why we
Click on the link here for Audio Player – President Kennedy Address to UPI Editors Luncheon – June 8, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what started off as a short address to the Editors and Publishers of UPI, who were holding their annual luncheon in Washington D.C. quickly
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Meet The Press – John Foster Dulles – June 24, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As America became rapidly embroiled in yet-another shooting War, this time in Korea, then-Ambassador-at-large John Foster Dulles had returned from a recent trip to the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – June 4, 1987 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A day in history with a lot of testimony going around, this June 4th in 1987. The Iran-Contra hearings were grinding along with Iranian financier Albert Hakim giving
Click on the link here for Audio Player – News Commentaries – June 1-2, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection It would appear June is a rather busy month for news – and the start of t his particular June in 1961 proved to be no different. From a series
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Tiananmen Square – Timeline – May-June 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Twenty-five years ago, all eyes were on Beijing and the unfolding events that, at first seemed wildly optimistic and then turned very bad. Beginning in April, coinciding with the
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – May 30, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In retrospect, this May 30th in 2000 was less hysterical than most. The Stock Market made a surprise leap, causing many to get downright giddy and
