Category The Fourth Estate

April 21, 1975 – Imminent Implosion In South Vietnam – Thieu Resigns – Saigon Surrounded

– April 21, 1975 – Thieu Resigns – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the collapse of South Vietnam only a matter of time this April in 1975, word came on the 21st of the resignation of…

British and Canadian Troops

April 19-20, 1940 – An Allied Landing In Norway – The Situation In Scandinavia.

April 19-20, 1940 – BBC Home Service – Radio Paris – Radio Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 19-20, 1940 – news for this day was intentionally vague. The BBC reported that a special detachment of British, Canadian…

April 19, 1993

April 19, 1993 – The Odyssey Of Waco – A Standoff In Texas And No Happy Endings.

April 19, 1993 – News regarding the standoff in Waco and the outcome – Bulletins and press conferences – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – April 19, 1993 was a day that ending considerably different than it started. It all had…

April 14, 1941

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…

April 12, 1945 - Death of FDR

April 12, 1945 – Death Of A President – Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

– April 12, 1945 – News reports – The Death of President Roosevelt – NBC and MBS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 12, 1945 – A day that ended considerably different than how it began. In the late…