Category Week In History

April 12, 1945 - Death of FDR

April 12, 1945 – Death Of A President – Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

– April 12, 1945 – News reports – The Death of President Roosevelt – NBC and MBS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 12, 1945 – A day that ended considerably different than how it began. In the late…

LBJ - Vietnam 1965

April 7, 1965 – LBJ: “This Will Be A Disorderly Planet For A Long Time” – The Deepening Vietnam War.

April 7, 1965 – President Johnson at Johns Hopkins University – ABC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what was billed as a Major Foreign Policy Address over our involvement in Vietnam, LBJ delivered a speech at Johns Hopkins…

March 22, 1942

March 22, 1942 – Assault On Malta – Invasion Jitters – Shakeup In The War Room – Senate Investigations

– March 22, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 1942 – The world still at war, the stakes getting higher – the threat of a Japanese invasion of Australia getting more likely…

March 11, 1938 – The Word Is Anschluss – Germany Annexes Austria – German Troops In Vienna

News From Radio Austria – News From Radio Prague – March 11, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. The ominous tones in news for this March day in 1938 were inescapable. The situation in Europe had escalated and a new…

March 10, 1990

March 10, 1990 – A Lithuanian Breakup – Former Soviet Republics And Dismantling The Eastern Bloc.

– March 10, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 10, 1990 – The continuing and developing story of the breakaway Soviet republics got its latest chapter in the form of Lithuania, whose Parliament…

Air Raid Drill in D.C.

March 4,1942 – Invasion Of Java – War Jitters In Washington – Blackouts In America

On this March 4th in 1942, the war was a little under 90 days old for the U.S. and already nerves were running high. The news regarding the Japanese invasion of Java had gained ground against the allies who were…

Japanese Invasion force

February 11, 1942 – Singapore: The Situation Is Worse, But It’s Better – Corregidor Invasion: The Last Ditch Effort.

– News Of The World – NBC Red Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 11, 1942 – news for this day was ominous, sketchy and strange. The situation in Singapore was described in London as growing worse, but…

February 2, 1938 – To Make The World Smaller – Expedition To Pitcairn Island –

– NBC Special Program – Pitcairn Island Expedition – February 2, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In trying to think of a comparable communications feat in recent times, the only thing I could think of was the development…

January 28, 1973 - Paris peace signing

January 28, 1973 – Vietnam War – At Long Last, Ceasefire.

January 28, 1973 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 28, 1973 – The first official day of what was hoped to be Peace in Vietnam. The accords were signed in Paris and a ceasefire went…

Somewhere between Borneo and Celebes.

January 27, 1942 – Showdown Between Borneo And Celebes- Japanese Army 30 Miles From Singapore – Pan-American Conference Concludes.

Fighting or talk of war going on seemingly all over the world, this January 27th in 1942. The Pacific between Borneo and Celebes was the scene of many fierce sea and air battles as the Battle of the Dutch East…