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September 11-12, 2001 – NPR Continuing Coverage – 11 pm – 1 am (PDT) – September 11-12, 2001 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It seemed as though everyone knew someone who was either on one of those flights, or who worked in one of those buildings. The refusals to...
August 22, 2002 – BBC World Service – World Report – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 22, 2002 – another report of another hostage situation by another terrorist group and another announcement of a beheading. 2002 had no shortage of terrorist organizations around the world. This one, allegedly funded...
August 3, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup + The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 3, 1978 – a day where assassinations and retaliations were widespread, and seemingly having everything to do with the Middle East. Two Arab terrorists who murdered two Palestine Liberation Organization representatives...
July 18, 2005 – CNN Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 18, 2005 – 13 years ago it was about sentencing domestic terrorists and quickly approaching hurricanes. Life in prison was the sentence for domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph for bombing a Women’s clinic in Birmingham Alabama in...
May 18, 2001 – National Public Radio All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 18, 2001 – A day all too familiar in recent years. From Jerusalem came reports of Israeli F-16’s targeting Hamas positions and training camps in retaliation for a suicide bombing outside a busy...
May 4, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 4, 1995 – 15 days after the Oklahoma City Bombing, Police, FBI and ATF agents were still sifting through rubble, still looking for bodies and still looking for suspects. On this day a sketch emerged...
May 1, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 1, 1995 – A busy news day, this First of May. Beginning with news that a settlement had been reached in the trial of Malcolm X’s granddaughter Qubilah Shabazz, who was accused of a murder-for-hire...
March 15, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 15, 1985 – News of the latest kidnapping of a Westerner in Beirut. This one, AP Correspondent Terry Anderson, abducted by three gunmen earlier in the morning and taken away in a Green Mercedes. As...
March 12, 2002 – CBS World News Roundup – NPR – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 12, 2002 – A day we would be seeing as more the norm than the exception over time. On this day, the Terrorism Advisory was revised and the color...
February 28, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup -The World Tonight – Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 28, 1980 – 1980 seemed to have been The Year Of The Hostage, by the looks of the first few months. No sooner were we getting used to the...
