Category Politics

Aschluss - 1938

March 12, 1938 – Anschluss Realized – Doubts Pondered – History In Question.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20148″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 12, 1938 – Radio Prague News – MBS John Steele – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] As the news regarding the annexation of Austria by Germany continued to unfold, doubts began to arise as…

The Middle-East Peace process

March 11, 1979 – Searching For The World’s Oldest Dream – A Middle-East Peace Settlement.

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The Finnish Border -- March 1940

March 10, 1940 – Report From Stockholm – Observations On The Finnish Front.

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Jan Masaryk

March 10, 1948 – The Death Of Masaryk – Britain’s Economic Downturn – Butter Vs. Margarine.

News for this March 10th in 1948 had much to do with a flood of reports from Prague saying that non-Communist Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk had been found dead from an apparent suicide hours earlier. But even while reports were…

March 5, 1997 – Another Day Underwater – The Ohio River Floods Of 1997 – Legislating Bad Behavior.

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Dr. Klaus Fuchs

March 4, 1950 – “Brilliant Mind – Nasty Person”: The Klaus Fuchs Affair – The Ever-Present Cult Of Doom.

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Guns and their victims

March 2, 2000 – So Many Guns, So Many Thoughts And Prayers . . .

This day was about the aftermath of the shooting death of 6 year old Kayla Rolland, by a classmate who brought a loaded gun to school at Buell Elementary School in Michigan. It became the first such incident to take…

February 19, 1965 – Shapes Of Things – Attempted Coup In Saigon – Attempted Extremists In Germany.

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Nagano Olympics Hockey -1998

February 16, 1998 – A Blink From Baghdad – News From Nagano – Titanic #1 Nine Weeks In A Row

February 16, 1998 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 16, 1998 – Busy news day – starting with news from Baghdad about the ongoing flap over weapons inspections. More balking from Sadaam Hussein and…

February 16, 1979

February 16, 1979 – Flight From Tehran

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”25785″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 16, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 16, 1979 – a day of evacuation, confusion and purges in Tehran, and a day of logger-heads in Mexico City.…