Category U.S. Intervention

The Breakaway Republic Epidemic – April 3, 1990

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup  – April 3, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Four months into the new decade – the last one of the 20th Century and the world was…

Mad Cow – Mad World – March 28, 1996

Click on the link here for Audio Player – PRI/BBC – The World – March 28, 1996 – WGBH, Boston Further evidence there are no dull days in history, no matter when – March 28th in 1996 was overflowing with…

JFK At Berkeley – 1962 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – President Kennedy Address to Students at UC Berkeley – March 23, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection On the occasion of UC Berkeley‘s 94th annual Charter Day celebration, and accepting an…

March 18, 1958 – Cold War Thaws And Tensions – Adlai Stevenson, Pierre Mendes France And Hugh Gaitskill – Past Daily Reference Room

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Making Peace Look Real – March 18, 1994

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 18, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection There were glimmers of hope, this March 18th in 1994. In a historic first-step, warring factions which had…

Shapes Of Things – March 13, 1985

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 13, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This day in 1985 started with a funeral. Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko, after only 13 months in office,…

Bargaining Chips – March 6, 1990

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 6, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this March 6th in 1990 had much to do with the atmosphere of change and what…

The World According To 1958 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Youth Wants To Know – Guest: Eric Johnstone – February 23, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Maybe it’s always been that way – gripped by upheaval – seized by fear…

Report On The Congo – February 24, 1960 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS – Eyewitness To History w/Walter Cronkite – Report On The Congo – February 24, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As a reminder that independence movements are often bloody, endless…

Anatomy Of A Coup – Venezuela’s 2002 Overthrow – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Radio Reports on Coup in Venezuela – April 11-14, 2002 – NPR/BBC World Service  Gordon Skene Sound Collection Amid conflicting reports from Caracas the past several days, regarding protests, demonstrations-turned violent…