Tag: Broadcast Journalism

January 28, 1994 – Life In Sudden California – L.A.’s Little Earthquake Problem.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6701″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 28, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Even though one of the deadliest earthquakes to hit Southern California occurred on January 17th of 1994, the earth was still shaking some 11 days later, with some 70 considerable aftershocks

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Tehran protests

January 25, 1979 – Postcards From Tehran

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6669″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 25, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] With no end in sight and protests continuing and becoming more violent, the situation in Iran on this day in 1979 was anything but resolved. The Pro and Anti-Shah factions were

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Happy Pills – 1956 – Past Daily Weekend Pop Chronicles.

Mental Health in the 1950’s was still something of a mystery when the first medications were introduced to treat symptoms of depression, anxiety and psychosis. The introduction of Tranquilizers to the American public was met with a goodly amount of suspicion in the Psychiatric community, but the public went crazy

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December 21, 1939 – Christmas In Wartime – Festive In Short Supply – The Last Of Merry For The Duration.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”6144″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 21, 1939 – Guy Savage News – Mutual – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Despite news earlier in the week of the sinking of the German Battleship Admiral Graf Spee, Germany was celebrating Christmas, this week in 1939, with a shipment of some 1

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Berlin - 1943

December 3, 1943 – Orchestrated Hell – Raid Over Berlin

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”11362″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”December 3, 1943 – CBS – The World Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”]   In what has been considered one of the milestones in broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow reported his eyewitness account of a bombing raid over Berlin, this day in 1943.

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November 27, 1979: America Held Hostage: Day 23 – An Embassy In Tehran.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”5792″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”November 27, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Shortly after the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979, ABC News inaugurated a new late-night news show, Nightline whose tagline was “America Held Hostage: Day .

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November 23, 1970 – A Search Continues, A War Goes On, The View From Folsom – Nixon Overrides A Veto –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”5747″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”November 23, 1970 – NBC News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] A day a lot happened. This November 23rd in 1970 heard reports of an unsuccessful attempt to free American prisoners in a North Vietnamese detention camp. The raid itself was successful, but the

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