October 3, 1982 – ABC Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Flare ups in the Middle East and a scare in the Chicago area. A bus carrying Israeli soldiers was ambushed outside of Beirut on this day, killing 6 and wounding 22. Israeli troops were combing the
– CBS Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 12, 2005 – An uneasy day in London, in the wake of bombings on the 7th which took the lives of 52 people, including four bombers, a frantic search was on to find additional suspects in this coordinated
– July 8, 1948 – News Of The World – Palestine Crisis and more – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1948 had much to do with the crisis in Palestine, which had now blown up into full-scale war. UN mediators were scrambling for negotiations to
– CBS Hourly News – June 17, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day, at least as far as the U.S. was concerned, centered around a hostage drama unfolding at Beirut Airport. Members of a Shi’ite Militia group, armed to the teeth, hijacked TWA flight 847
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Become a member and subscribe: Become a Patron! CBS Radio News – May 20, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection May 20, 1999 had everyone scratching their heads, wondering just where the sanity had gone. A month after the mass shootings at Columbine High School, another similar shooting took place,
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We’re here because you are: Become a Patron! The search for Osama bin Laden may have ended this day when word came that a CIA drone, equipped with missile fired on a group of suspected Al Qaeda officials, “killing them all” according to a CIA spokesperson. There was no confirmation
– January 18, 1987 – CBS News on The hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 18, 1987 – a day of cautious diplomacy. News from West Germany that suspected 22-year old Palestinian terrorist Muhammed Ali Hamedi was scheduled to be freed. The U.S. wanted to extradite Hamedi back
– News for January 1, 2000 + review of 1999 – January 1, 2000 – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Y2K – all the doomsday scenarios; all the fear, paranoia and hoarding. When January 1, 2000 arrived, so did just another day. So the news for this
