May 31, 1987 – ABC World News This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 31, 1987 – the last day of a perplexing month in 1987, and the last haywire week of May, 30 years ago. A week you needed a scorecard and interpreter to figure out. Starting
May 3, 1987 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 3, 1987 – Just ahead of the hearings over U.S. involvement in clandestine support for the Nicagarua Contras, who were in the midst of fighting the leftist government of Daniel Ortega. President Reagan
April 5, 1981 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1981 – The end of a roller-coaster week. President Reagan, surviving an assassination attempt from John Hinckley, was on the mend and was up and around, joking with reporters and White House staffers. Not so
March 22, 1987 – ABC World News This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 1987 – this day fell on a Sunday, and as with most Sundays it was a day to look back at the news of the week. On this particular episode of ABC radio’s
March 14,1983 – CBS World News Roundup – Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 14,1983 – Busy news day. In London, OPEC Ministers were gathering in the hopes of coming up with a benchmark oil price of $29.00 a barrel and new production quotas. Of the 13
January 11, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 11, 1988 – news for this day began with word from Wall Street, and the wild ride it had been taking in previous days. Losing as much as 140 points before the close on Friday,
November 9, 1980 – CBS Radio – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 9, 1980 – the end of a tumultuous week in politics. The Reagan landslide. The election which was called before the polls closed on the West Coast, where Jimmy Carter called Ronald
October 7, 1980 – NPR – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With some 3 weeks to go before Campaign ’80 drew to a close, the Presidential candidates were out stumping for votes on this day, in what many were saying was one of the most contentious
President Reagan gives a news conference – September 28, 1982. His first in two months. Questions, as always, centered on the Economy, but also questions regarding the situation in Beirut and U.S. relations with Israel. The topic of the upcoming off-year elections was also high on the agenda: Economic Recovery
August 26, 1986 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 26, 30 years ago today – A seismic and Volcanic surprise in the African nation of Cameroon – one of the rare volcanos situation under a lake, erupted and spewed lethal carbon dioxide gas and
