While the UN was preparing to celebrate 10 years as a peacemaking body on the 20th of June, a military coup was going on in Argentina, with a plan to oust Juan Pèron. this day in June 1955. On 16 June 1955, 30 Argentine Navy and Air Force aircraft bombed
Busy week in the world of June 13, 1993 starting in Washington and President Clinton’s nomination of Stephen Breyer. Summoned from his hospital bed, federal Judge Stephen Breyer met with President Clinton, hoping to become the first justice in a generation named to the Supreme Court by a Democratic president.
– CBS Radio – The Washington Week – June 5, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News around Washington, for the week ending June 5th in 1976. House Speaker Carl Albert announced his retirement this week, expressing a desire to get off Capitol Hill and back to his hometown
Further evidence that history on any particular day isn’t about one earth-shifting event, but a series of seemingly inconsequential ones that creep up from time to time and take center stage without anybody looking. On this June 4th in 1961 it was about the upcoming Vienna Summit with Soviet Prime
Coffee works wonders, especially for websites: Become a Patron! House Un-American Activities Hearings, otherwise known as HUAC and The famous Witch Hunts of 1947. With the Cold War ramping up to proportions edging on hysteria, it was Hollywood‘s turn under the Red Scare microscope. For two weeks, witnesses were summoned
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
– CBS World News Roundup + 9:00 am Network News – May 22, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this 22nd of May in 1984 had a lot to do with the ongoing Iran-Iraq War and new flare ups in the Persian Gulf, threatening to involve neighboring
Subscribe – Join – Kick in – up to you: Become a Patron! – News Of The World – May 21, 1942 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this May 21st in 1942 had much to do with the anticipated events taking place in
Become a Patron! – ABC Radio News via WXYZ-Detroit – May 15, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in May, 1964 was all about the coming Presidential election and Primary fever for the race to the White House. On May 15th, voters were going to the polls
– 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.
