Category: War

Vietnam

Vietnam: Past The Point Of No Return – May 29, 1966

Become a member – it works wonders:Become a Patron! – ABC Voices In The Headlines – May 29, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for the week, ending on this May 29th in 1966, was mostly about our inevitable plunge into the quagmire called Vietnam. Rioting had erupted

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Memorial

Memorial Day 1997 – May 26, 1997

Coffee? – NPR – All Things Considered – May 26, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1997 was officially Memorial Day. And so May 26th was given over, mostly in the U.S. to observance of that day. And even though the news was made up primarily

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Mayaguez incident

An Incident Called Mayaguez – May 14, 1975

– CBS News Special Report – President Ford Address on Mayaguez – May 14, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what has been termed the Last Official Battle of the Vietnam War, the incident surrounding the U.S. container ship USS Mayaguez, seized by Khmer Rouge, was finally over.

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