Category World News

Moscow Olympics - 1980

Closing Day – Moscow Olympics – August 3, 1980

– News from Radio Moscow – August 3, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Forty-three years ago today, the Olympic games in Moscow came to an end. Since the U.S. and 65 other countries were boycotting the games, as…

Europe

Europe At War: 332 Days And Counting – July 31, 1940

– News Of The World – July 31, 1940 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 332 days since the outbreak of War in Europe. 332 days and the signs were all pointing to an imminent invasion…

A Sickness Named Dahmer – July 28, 1991

– ABC World News This Week – Week Ending July 28, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 28th in 1991 was the end of a horrifying week. As news filtered out regarding the arrest of a seemingly innocuous…

Korea: Truce Talks – Iran: Bluff Talks – July 10, 1951

  – CBS Radio – Edward R. Murrow News With Don Hollenbeck – July 10, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 10, 1951 was an interesting day – not so much for what it represented in the present,…

UFO Sightings – A Sky Filled With Objects From Mt. Rainier To Roswell – July 3, 1947

– Sunoco Three-Star Extra with Lowell Thomas – July 3, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1947 had a lot to do with looking skyward. Reports from all over the country indicated sightings of brightly colored…

Civil Rights
Taft-Hartley

Taft-Hartley Bill Becomes Law – June 23, 1947

– ABC Headline News – June 23, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A lot of Labor news this June 23rd in 1947. Starting with the override of President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley bill, the Senate voted to…

Paris - June 1940

Paris Calls It Quits – France Surrenders – June 20, 1940

– News for June 20, 1940 – NBC – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this June 20th in 1940 was not the most optimistic, especially if you were around Paris at the time. Word from the government, relocated…

Politics in Occupied japan 1950

Japan: Politics And Occupation – June 7, 1950

– June 7, 1950 – Report From Tokyo – Robert Martin, CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 7, 1950 – Coming up on 5 years since American forces began occupying Japan. Five years since Gen. MacArthur took…