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Governor Reagan - 1970

May 5, 1970 – Governor Reagan Has A Word About Kent State

  [laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”21074″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”May 5, 1970 – Governor Reagan – Statement On Campus Unrest – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Governor Reagan Announcement of School closings – May 5, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Chip in, if you can – support, if you like: Become a

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March 30, 1981 – The Day All Hell Broke Loose

March 30, 1981 – CBS News Special Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 30, 1981 – Starting off normal, unremarkable in so many ways – but by mid-morning East Coast time, pandemonium had broken out. President Reagan, on his way out of the Washington Hilton, where he had

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Missiles in March

March 19, 1985 – World Full Of Missiles – Pockets Full Of Empty –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20254″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 19, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] March 19th 1985 was about nuclear weapons, MX Missiles, Geneva Arms talks. East-West relations, saber-rattling and words. On this day the first of two Senate votes was scheduled to take place

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Honduras

March 17, 1988 – Invading Honduras: Is This Trip Necessary?

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”13233″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 17, 1988 – Hourly News – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] This St. Patrick’s Day in 1988 was greeted with news of another military incursion in Central America – this time it was Honduras with 3,500 U.S. troops busily swarming ashore

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March 3, 1987 – The CIA Gets A New Director: William Webster – The World Loses An Icon: Danny Kaye.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54974″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 3, 1987 – CBS Hourly News – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] March 3, 1987 – CBS Radio News – Spectrum – The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 3, 1987 – Busy news day – President

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February 18, 1987 – Dissidents, Shakeups And Smokers

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7035″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 18, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] No end to drama, this February 18th in 1987. Street fighting in Beirut, brokered truces falling apart, fighting over a strategically placed office building in Beirut, which just happened to be

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February 4, 1980 – ABSCAM: New Word In The Dictionary.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6822″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 4, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] On this February 4th in 1980, a new Acronym entered our Dictionary –ABSCAM, which stood for Abdul Enterprises Scam or Arab Scam implicated at least 8 Senators and Congressmen over accepting

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