– BBC News – Palestinian Elections – CBS News – Condoleeza Rice Interview – Jan 25-27, 2006 – 19 years ago, things changed in Gaza. Hamas, an organization labeled by many governments as a terrorist organization decided to don political attire and go after a popular election. In what was
– January 21, 1958 – NBC News On The Hour -Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 21, 1958 – the news of the hour was the situation in Caracas, Venezuela. A general strike was paralyzing the country which was under the military dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez. At news time,
– ABC Radio – Voices In The Headlines – January 16, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No doubt about it, on this January 16th in 1966 we were slipping further and further into an abyss known as the Vietnam War. To a joint session of Congress, President Johnson
News for this January 15th in 1979 had much to do with the potentially dangerous situation in Iran. On the one hand, it was the first gathering of the newly installed Parliament, under the aegis of The Shah. But on the other hand, only a third of the Parliament members
– First Tuesday: Domestic Spying – How Much Do They Know About You? – Dec. 1, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection It probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to many that our preoccupation with Domestic spying has been with us for a very long time. In 1970 it was
Amid growing resentment over U.S, domination of the Panama Canal, rioting had broken out in the Canal Zone. Stemmed largely from an incident over flag raising by students at a nearby university, it begged a bigger question; how long was the U.S. going to occupy the Canal Zone? Some fifty
January 7, 1979 – CBS Radio Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 7, 1979 – after some two weeks, large numbers of rebel troops, aided by Vietnamese tanks, seized control of Cambodia, and captured the capitol city of Phnom Penh and overthrow premier Pol Pot. The Hanoi
ABC World News This Week – ending January 6, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. This week in 1991 saw an inching towards all-out confrontation between the U.S. and its allies and Iraq over the occupation of Kuwait. Months of saber rattling, posturing, negotiations, appeals, threats and troop buildups were
– 1990 – ABC World News This Year – December 30, 1990 – ABC Radio – 1990. A year loaded with contrasts, intrigues and question marks. And all of it came up for review, this December 30th, 1990. The year started on a hopeful note, but somewhere in the middle,
[/caption] – NBC – Chicago University Of The Air -Should A United States Army Enforce The Partition of Palestine? – Feb. 22, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As the Partition of Palestine began to unfold and as the violence increased, a question was raised as to whether the U.S.
