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June 11, 1940 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 11, 1940 – A fast moving day in the war. With German armies some 40 miles outside of Paris, and attacking French ports up and down the coast, visions of 1914...
News – May 31, 1942 – NBC News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 31, 1942. A busy day in War. Starting with a news report from Australia about ground crews keeping Allied planes in the air in the Pacific. The news then switches to reports...
May 28, 1989 – Newsmark – Memorial Day at Arlington – Homeless Women – other stories – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 28, 1989 – Today is Memorial Day. And even though you are no doubt firing up the grill, laying out the picnic table, opening...
May 7, 1945 – NBC Radio Continuous coverage – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though the war in Europe had ended, and witnesses saw the signing of the surrender documents, the official word on the actual surrender, word from Allied Headquarters wasn’t quite coming. News had broken earlier by...
May 5-6, 1970 – Today Show Interviews – Sen. Hatfield – Sen. Griffin – Hugh Downs – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Kent State – May 4, 1970. The protests against our further incursion in Southeast Asia and the unexpected shooting and killing of four Kent State students by National...
April 25, 1940 – H.V. Kaltenborn And The News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 25, 1940 – News about the situation in Norway, this day in 1940. Reports that German troops had taken the town of Røros. But later reports said that the Germans had abandoned Røros, leading...
March 26, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 26, 1942 – News from all the fighting fronts throughout the world this day. More calls for opening a second front – this time from Russia, as Soviet troops launched a counteroffensive, pushing German troops...
March 15, 1939 – Washington Roundup with Theodore A. Huntley – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 15, 1939 – In a move that brought a European War inches closer, the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler announced it had taken over the Moravian and Bohemian zones of Czechoslovakia – and...
March 12, 2002 – CBS World News Roundup – NPR – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 12, 2002 – A day we would be seeing as more the norm than the exception over time. On this day, the Terrorism Advisory was revised and the color...
March 8, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 8, 1942 – ominous silence from the Dutch East Indies this day. No news from Java in over 24 hours. The last communication from Bandong was via radio at 7:55 in the morning before shutting...
