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El Salvador - no truce

December 1, 1984 – El Salvador: ‘Little Progress And No Truce’ –

– CBS World News Roundup – December 1, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As progress stalled and truce talks broke down over the Civil War in El Salvador, unrest and fighting continued. Only the tentative promise that there…

Pulp – Live At Glastonbury 1995 – Nights At The Roundtable: Concert Edition

– Pulp – Live At Glastonbury 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – No week of 90s music can ever be complete, or even get started, without a set by the beloved and highly influential band Pulp. Fronted by the theatrical…

November 12, 1938 – When The FCC Played Hardball – An Address By Frank McNinch, FCC Commissioner –

FCC Chairman Frank McNinch address – Nov. 12, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Bearing in mind that Radio was the modern technological advance in 1938, Television was only in experimental stages, and computers weren’t even considered, there was a…

The Agitation Factor

November 12, 1941 – The Agitation Factor And The Russian Winter: The Eastern Front.

News of The World – NBC – Nov. 12, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1941 was enveloped in agitation and rejected diplomacy. Beginning with news the Finns had rejected (politely) a proposal by…

November 10, 1941 – Coming Holidays, Adamant Promises – Straining To Be Upbeat In Berlin.

– News Of The World – November 10, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the war raging in Europe this November 10th in 1941, the tell-tale signs that, even the German people were getting fed up with the…

November 9, 1987 – Extremists, Fanatics, Terrorists: Monday Morning Mayhem – The Wonder-World Of Detonated Devices.

– CBS World News Roundup – November 9, 1987 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ironically, November 9, 1987 landed on a Monday – and like many Mondays before and after, it was a day filled with drama, madness and…

Tehran

November 4, 1979 – Postcard From Tehran: Death To America And Other Love Songs – Embassy Under Siege

– CBS Radio: The World This Week – November 4, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what became the opening day of an odyssey, the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was attacked on November 4, 1979, overrun with over…

Mario Cuomo

November 3, 1982 – Morning After A Mid-Term – Election 1982

November 3, 1982 – CBS World News Roundup – Newsbreak – 9:00 Network News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 3, 1982 – the Mid-Term elections and the morning after. Grinning from ear-to-ear and grinning and bearing it. To…