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October 27, 2002 – BBC World Service – Radio Moscow World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 27, 2002 – news for this was about the end of a three-day hostage ordeal in Moscow. An estimated 40 to 50 armed Chechens took over The Dubrovka Theater in Moscow...
April 26, 1945 – NBC News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 26, 1945 – news of the war and news that Berlin was capitulating fast. 3/4 of the city was now under Russian occupation, while sporadic fighting continued in some streets while cleanup was already...
December 23, 1981 – CBS Radio News On The Hour + Spectrum Commentaries – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 23, 1981 – A week of Martial Law in Poland – a week of crackdowns and a week where unrest continued. The news broadcasts beaming from Warsaw were largely repetitious...
November 10, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 10, 1990 – busy news day, no shortage of cliff-hangers. Secretary of State James Baker met with French officials in an attempt to drum-up support for the pending invasion of Kuwait on this day. Reports...
Nikita Khruschev Press Conference – Paris – May 18, 1960 – Part 1 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Nikita Khruschev Press Conference – Paris – May 18, 1960 – Part 2 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Nikita Khruschev Press Conference – Paris – May 18, 1960 – Part...
May 3, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – May 3, 1995 – This day began with a media frenzy. After 18 hours of questioning by FBI Agents over possible connections to Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombings, Gary Lands and Robert Jacks, who...
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes – Address on Return from Moscow Conference – December 30, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Secretary of State James Byrnes, returning from the Foreign Ministers Conference in Moscow was upbeat, and more optimistic than the London Conference, which ended pessimistically in September. Calling...
– Ash – Live At Pinkpop 2011 – June 11, 2011 – VPRO/3VOOR12 – The Netherlands – Perennial favorites Ash tonight, recorded live at Pinkpop 2011 in The Netherlands on June 11th. Certainly a band with their fair share of ups and downs, they have weathered it all and have...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Palace – in session for London Calling 2015 – May 17, 2015 – VPRO-3VOOR12 Continuing with the latest batch of sessions from the recently concluded London Calling Festival in Holland last week. Palace are another discovery....
Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC News Inquiry – Amnesty: Can you go home again? – April 24, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The only thing more contentious about our involvement in the Vietnam War was the subject of those who refused to get involved...