Category: War

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March 4, 1950 – “Brilliant Mind – Nasty Person”: The Klaus Fuchs Affair – The Ever-Present Cult Of Doom.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7247″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 4, 1950 – Voices And Events – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for the week ending on March 4, 1950 had a lot to do with the Cold War and the ever-present threatening cloud of catastrophe which seemed to spread

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Iwo Jima

February 25, 1945 – Otherwise Uninhabited – Iwo Jima –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”19895″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 25, 1945 – Story Behind The Headlines – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 25th, 1945 news was crammed with reports of great advances in Europe. The Allied armies were on the outskirts of Cologne, and whatever setbacks occurred during the

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February 22, 1969 – In Dread Of A Nixon Visit – End Of The Tet Holiday – “George Was A Snappy Dancer”.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7091″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 22, 1969 – Monitor News Roundup – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News on this Washington’s Birthday in 1969 had much to do with the anticipated European visit of newly inaugurated  President Nixon. It also had something to do with a

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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 17, 1996 – A Collision Of Ideologies – A Collision Of Trains – A $19 Million Settlement

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12698″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 17, 1996 – NPR – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this February 17th in 1996 started off with a grim report of a collision between trains had taken place just outside of Washington D.C., killing at least 11

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Children protesting with signs reading "Children are not born to burn" and "Stop the war now" during a historic demonstration, highlighting activism, peace, and youth involvement in social causes.

February 15, 1967 – Protesting The Vietnam War – Calling Up The Reserves – It’s No Longer Cassius Clay –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54760″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 15, 1967 – Sixth Hour News – WNBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 15, 1967 – Sixth Hour News – WNBC New York – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 15, 1967 – News today was about Vietnam – the Vietnam War

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