Category: U.S. Intervention

Africa in 1964

March 26, 1961 – Soapy Goes To Africa – Fact-Finding In A Region Roiling In Conflict.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7580″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 26, 1961 – Meet The Press – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] The ongoing turmoil/growing pains/strife that marked the Africa Independence Movement in the 1960s continues, to a degree, to this day. But in 1964 it was all pretty fresh. There

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Missiles in March

March 19, 1985 – World Full Of Missiles – Pockets Full Of Empty –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20254″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 19, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] March 19th 1985 was about nuclear weapons, MX Missiles, Geneva Arms talks. East-West relations, saber-rattling and words. On this day the first of two Senate votes was scheduled to take place

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Honduras

March 17, 1988 – Invading Honduras: Is This Trip Necessary?

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”13233″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 17, 1988 – Hourly News – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] This St. Patrick’s Day in 1988 was greeted with news of another military incursion in Central America – this time it was Honduras with 3,500 U.S. troops busily swarming ashore

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February 19, 1965 – Shapes Of Things – Attempted Coup In Saigon – Attempted Extremists In Germany.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12722″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 19, 1965 – Overseas Assignment – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] History doesn’t preserve itself, it needs your help: Become a Patron! As if there weren’t enough indications that America had gotten itself involved in a shooting war in Vietnam sooner

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February 16, 1979

February 16, 1979 – Flight From Tehran

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”25785″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 16, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 16, 1979 – a day of evacuation, confusion and purges in Tehran, and a day of logger-heads in Mexico City. In Iran, the escape was on, and hundreds of American

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February 12, 1964 – Big Trouble In Little Cyprus

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12595″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 12, 1964 – ABC News – WXYZ, Detroit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Contrary to popular belief that the world changed in 1964, based on the happenings on The Ed Sullivan Show a few days earlier, it was the business-as-usual for the rest

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