Category: War

Private Enrichment At Public Expense – August 20, 1951

– Edward R. Murrow News with Don Hollenbeck – August 20, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day had an eerie ring of familiarity to it. The subject of influencing policy based on previous employers, the subject of Private enrichment at Public expense, and the “glass

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Feelers And Mixed Signals – August 10, 1945

– News reports – NBC/CBS – August 10, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this August 10th, 70 years ago was full of anticipation mixed with caution. Shortly after reports of the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb attack surfaced, and after President Truman went to address the nation on

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Exit: Monrovia – August 5, 1990

– ABC Information Network Hourly News – August 5, 1990 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Aside from the bigger news just looming to the east, the news regarding the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and the nervous anticipation of further moves and wrangling, there was news of Civil War breaking

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Apostasia In Athens – July 23, 1965

– CBS World News Roundup – July 23, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another unstable day for Planet Earth, this July 23rd in 1965. With briefings continuing at the White House over Defense Secretary Robert McNamara‘s fact-finding tour of Vietnam, there was continuing concern over our escalating role

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Berlin - 1940

Report From Berlin – July 14,1940

– Sigrid Schulz – Report from Berlin – Mutual Broadcasting – July 14, 1940 – Since America wasn’t technically at war with Germany in 1940 – American correspondents were free to give nightly reports from Berlin, reporting the goings on – amid careful and thorough censorship by the German government.

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If There Were A Peace Conference – July 13, 1970

– NBC Nightly News – Huntley-Brinkley – July 13, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Rumors of peace-feelers, this July 13th in 1970. Soviet deputy Foreign Minister Nikolai Feryubin meeting with India’s Indira Gandhi over the possibilities of a Peace Conference over the war in Vietnam. Feryubin had just finished

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