– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1945 – eighty years ago, the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t
Voices And Events for week ending July 24, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A world in a state of upheaval and change, this week ending on this day in 1949. President Truman spoke those words in reaction to the weariness the world was feeling, a mere four years
– News for July 18, 1965 – WOR-AM, New York – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News reports on the war in Vietnam were coming with such regularity in 1965 as to almost make the news humdrum and monotonous. So the news for this July 18th in 1965 focused primarily
– July 11, 1951 – CBS Radio: Edward R. Murrow News with Don Hollenbeck – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another mixed-signals day, this July 11, 1951. With truce talks going on in Korea, fighting was still going on – with a reported additional 164 American troops killed in action
– News for Week of July 11, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Busy week, this particular one in July 1974. Surprise results from elections in Canada, uneasy ceasefire staying along Israeli borders and that thing called Watergate that kept the country and much of the world
– NBC Nightly News With Chet Huntley and David Brinkley – July 10, 1970 – Had there not been so much drama, deceit and upheaval associated with the decade of the 70s, it might have been called “The Goofy Decade”, there was no shortage of strange occurrences taking place during
– July 1, 1973 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 1, 1973 – brought a new month and new drama around Capitol Hill. The week ending for this first day of July brought news of Congress demanding an end to the bombing
– CBS World News Roundup – June 13, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this particular June 13th, there was talk of yet another intervention in another country’s political turmoil. In 1994 the subject was Haiti and the Military regime which overthrew the government of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in
A day where things looked particularly grim, this May 21st, 85 years ago. With the German Army advancing into Belgium and crossing into France, and with the French Army in a state of disarray and chaos, the situation was looking bleaker by the hour. The British Army, now heading to
– CBS World News Roundup – May 14, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this May 14th in 1984 was hopeful, as far as the kidnapped Americans in Sri Lanka were concerned. Word surfaced the rebel group holding the tourists, Stanley and Mary Allen, were relenting on
