– Special Report on the United Nations – September 23, 1960 – NBC Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection September, 1960 was a milestone year for The United Nations. With Africa going through Independence upheavals, Cuba flexing its newly gained Communist muscle and the Soviet Union tossing around the
– CBS World News Roundup – September 22, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this first day of Autumn in 1994 had much to do with the ongoing situation in Haiti. With U.S. troops having landed on the Island nation and deposed the military Junta led by
– CBS World News Roundup – September 21, 1989 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Hurricane season – and no different for this September 21st in 1989 as it has been in other years. For this September 21st, it was all about Hurricane Hugo and the wide swath the death
– NBC Nightly News – September 18, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 56 years ago today, the music world suffered a devastating loss – it would be one of three to go that year, and their passings signified the end of an era, the party was over. But
– 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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NBC Radio – Keys To The Capitol – September 14, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In 1955 we were knee-deep in the Red Scare and Communist threat, it influenced just about every aspect of American life – sometimes it went overboard. Sometimes it was just perplexing. In this
– NPR News – KPCC Los Angeles News – September 11, 2001 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Twenty-five years ago today, the event which changed and altered the way we live in the U.S. – On September 11, 2001 America joined the rest of the world as no longer immune
– News for September 7, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though it hardly made the mainstream news, more than an afterthought and a footnote to a gossip broadcast, the world did in fact lose one of the truly great Rock Drummers on this day. Keith Moon, who
– NBC Radio – Report On America: Toledo – October 15, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In sharp contrast to the nature of American cities in 2026, looking at the average American city in 1949 offers up a huge difference between the city of the past and the
