Category: Week In History

Castro and The Congo

September 23, 1960 – Rumble On 46th Street – Communists And The Congo – Report From The United Nations

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10262″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 23, 1960 – Report From The UN – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] September, 1960 was a milestone year for The United Nations. With Africa going through Independence upheavals, Cuba flexing its newly gained Communist muscle and the Soviet Union tossing

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Hanging On An Empty Promise – September 24, 1938

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News reports on Munich Crisis – September 24, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1938 was about the crisis over German demands for land belonging to Czechoslovakia. The Munich crisis over the Sudetenland, as

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A Syria State Of Mind – August 29, 2013

Click on the link here for Audio Player – News from ABC Radio National (Australia) – BBC World Service – August 29, 2013 Click on the link here for Audio Player – News from Kol Israel – Radio Polonia (Warsaw) – CBC World Report – RFI, Paris – Voice of

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America Goes Wild – August 14, 1945

Click on the link here for Audio Player – VJ Day celebrations – continuing – NBC Radio – August 14, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection After days of waiting, false reports, rumors, fits and starts, Japan finally agreed to the surrender terms and VJ day was announced on August

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