Category Week In History

JFK At Berkeley – 1962 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – President Kennedy Address to Students at UC Berkeley – March 23, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection On the occasion of UC Berkeley‘s 94th annual Charter Day celebration, and accepting an…

Endemic To Apartheid – March 21, 1985

Click on the link here for Audio Player- CBS World News Roundup – March 21, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1985 began with an Angry commemoration – March 21st 1985 marked the 25th anniversary…

March 18, 1958 – Cold War Thaws And Tensions – Adlai Stevenson, Pierre Mendes France And Hugh Gaitskill – Past Daily Reference Room

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Making Peace Look Real – March 18, 1994

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 18, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection There were glimmers of hope, this March 18th in 1994. In a historic first-step, warring factions which had…

Gotti Walks – Paris Waits – March 14, 1987

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 14, 1987 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A contrasting sort of day, this March 14th in 1987. From New York came word that reputed Underworld…

Shapes Of Things – March 13, 1985

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 13, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This day in 1985 started with a funeral. Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko, after only 13 months in office,…

Cold War Chess Match – March 12, 1947

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC News Of The World – March 12, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection As Europe and the rest of the world slowly rebuilt from the ravages of  World War 2,…

Funny Things On The Way To The White House – March 10, 1964

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio News+ News from WXYZ, Detroit – March 10,1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Fifty years ago today, battle lines were being drawn for the Presidential election of 1964. The…

The Windows Just Literally Smashed . . . And The Water Gushed In – March 7, 1987

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – March 7, 1987 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this March 7th in 1987 started off with word of a tragedy in the English Channel…