April 14, 1941 – Situation East
– April 14, 1941 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this April 14, 1941, the 589th day of War, had much to do with the situation in the Balkans. Yugoslavia fell to the…
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April 11, 1947 – Striking Telephone Operators, Labor And Industrial Peace – Calling For Korean Independence.
April 11, 1947 – World News Roundup – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 11, 1947 – News for this day in 1947 had a lot to do with labor and the climate of walkouts, negotiations and…
April 7, 1965 – LBJ: “This Will Be A Disorderly Planet For A Long Time” – The Deepening Vietnam War.
April 7, 1965 – President Johnson at Johns Hopkins University – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what was billed as a Major Foreign Policy Address over our involvement in Vietnam, LBJ delivered a speech at Johns Hopkins…
March 29, 1942 – Raid On Nazaire Postmortem – Demonstrations For A Second Front – India And The Carrot Of Independence –
– WGN – News for March 29, 1942 – The really interesting and somewhat prophetic news on this March 29th in 1942, was buried towards the end of what were daily reports from the Front. The war was dragging on.…
March 22, 1942 – Assault On Malta – Invasion Jitters – Shakeup In The War Room – Senate Investigations
– March 22, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 1942 – The world still at war, the stakes getting higher – the threat of a Japanese invasion of Australia getting more likely…
March 14, 1962 – A JFK Press Conference – From Taxes To Vietnam And A Brother Running For The Senate.
– JFK Press Conference – March 14, 1962 – On this day in 1962, President Kennedy delivered his 27th News conference. He opened by reading a portion of a letter to Secretary of State Dean Rusk regarding the upcoming disarmament…
March 10, 1990 – A Lithuanian Breakup – Former Soviet Republics And Dismantling The Eastern Bloc.
– March 10, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 10, 1990 – The continuing and developing story of the breakaway Soviet republics got its latest chapter in the form of Lithuania, whose Parliament…
“We’re From The Kremlin . . .We’re Here To Help” – Soviet Invasion Of Czechoslovakia -1968 – The End Of Prague Spring
NBC Radio – Second Sunday Series: Revolution In Revolt – 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Editors Note: This was originally posted in 2014, during another crisis involving Russia and Ukraine (along with Crimea), as an example of history often…
March 3, 1942 – Giving Up On Batavia – Demands For An Offensive – Eye On India
– March 3, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 3, 1942 – Fighting in the Far-East was taking a bad turn for the allies. With the Netherlands giving up Batavia and slowly pulling…
Kirill Kondrashin With Mstislav Rostrophovich And The Czech Philharmonic – 1960 Prague Spring Festival – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
– 1960 Prague Spring Festival – The Czech Philharmonic – Kirill Kondrashin, cond. – Mstislav Rostropovich, cello – Czech Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another Historic concert this week – The celebrated Czech Philharmonic, led by distinguished Soviet…