Category: Week In History

February 16, 1979

February 16, 1979 – Flight From Tehran

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”25785″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 16, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 16, 1979 – a day of evacuation, confusion and purges in Tehran, and a day of logger-heads in Mexico City. In Iran, the escape was on, and hundreds of American

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February 12, 1964 – Big Trouble In Little Cyprus

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12595″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 12, 1964 – ABC News – WXYZ, Detroit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Contrary to popular belief that the world changed in 1964, based on the happenings on The Ed Sullivan Show a few days earlier, it was the business-as-usual for the rest

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February 11, 1941 – War Of Nerves – War Of Words – The View From Vichy

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12582″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 11, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this February 11th in 1941 was primarily about the war in Europe; a war the U.S. was comfortably-but-getting-less-so not directly involved in. We were still

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The Grilling of Dr. Henry Foster

February 10, 1995 – About Grilling – The Foster Confirmation Hearings – The Simpson Trial – Airline Bomb Threats

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12567″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 10, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] No end to grilling going on, this February 10th in 1995. On Capitol Hill it was the grilling of Surgeon General Nominee Dr. Henry Foster and the sound of overzealous clucking

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Facsimilie Machine

February 8, 1938 – A New Word In Our Lexicon: Facsimile

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”19577″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 8, 1938 – Mutual Special Features – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] For all that the world was teetering on the brink of World War and possible extinction, there were still glimpses to be had that we were indeed bracing ourselves for a fascinating

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February 1, 1946 - Picket lines outside Steel Mill

February 1, 1946 – Peace, Strikes And Cross-Country Flights

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”25588″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 1, 1946 – World News Roundup – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 1, 1946 – starting a new month with the same old problems: Strikes, strife and accusations – as well as a glimpse of air-travel in the not-too-distant future.

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