Category: Scandals

A Hostages Story – November 20, 1991

– CBS World News Roundup – November 20, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1991 had a lot to do with Thomas Sutherland, a professor at the American University in Beirut who had been held hostage somewhere in Beirut since 1985 was finally freed

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Death Of A French Dillinger – November 2, 1979

– CBS Hourly News – November 2, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The big news for this November 2nd in 1979 was the death of Jacques Mesrine; France’s John Dillinger – Public Enemy Number 1 in both France and Quebec, gunned down by police as he sat in

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Wilbur Gets His Freak On – October 9, 1974

  – NBC Nightly News – October 9, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ordinarily, another somber day on Capitol Hill, this October 9, 1974 – had it not been for the bizarre behavior of House Ways and Means Committee chairman Wilbur Mills and a few G-String notables who

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The Haywire Factor – September 23, 2000

  – CBS Weekend Roundup – Hourly News – September 23, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In retrospect, this was a strange week – the one which ended this September 23rd in 2000. Should have known – didn’t at the time. Got sucked right into the madness, mayhem,

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Haitian Hardball – September 17, 1994

– CBS World News Roundup – September 17, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this September 17th in 1994 had much to do with wars of words. In Haiti, a delegation of American negotiators were taking one last shot at a peaceful settlement to the Haiti question.

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Posture And Spin – September 2, 2000

– CBS Radio News + Weekend Roundup – September 2, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Since it was Labor Day weekend, this particular September 2nd in 2000, there was no end to campaigning, charges, counter-charges, spin, posturing and promising this last big holiday before the election. The end

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Facing Full And Complete Occupation – August 27, 1945

– NBC Radio News – August 27, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As preparations were finishing up, the 3rd Fleet was moving into Segami Bay and the first of several contingents of U.S. troops were preparing to land on Japanese shores, starting the beginning of the first full

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