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The Wrong Runway – October 31, 1979

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + 9:00 am News – October 31, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Starting off the day with a tragedy, this October 31st in 1979. Beginning with news of a Western Airlines DC-10 from Los

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Cuba Redux – September 8, 1979

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Hourly News – September 8, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Shades of October 1962, this day in September 35 years ago. A flurry of reports claiming the presence of Soviet troops on Cuban soil brought a wave of paranoia

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Glass House; Meet Stones – September 4, 1998

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – September 4, 1998 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A day laced with tragedy and scandal, this 4th of September in 1998. The on-going scandal involving President Clinton and White House Intern Monica Lewinsky ebbed for a

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A Day In The Life Of August – August 14, 1949

Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Voices and Events – Week ending August 14, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection And sometimes Summer isn’t necessarily violent or simmering or even contentious. This particular August 14th, 65 years ago was just that; a typical August

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August 11, 1947 – Howard Hughes Testimony Abruptly Ends – Bombshells Of The Verbal Kind –

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”16303″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 11, 1947 – Cedric Foster News And Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] The big news for this August 11th in 1947 was the abrupt ending of the Senate Sub-committee Hearings on the wartime contracts of Howard Hughes. The investigation as to where

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Riders Of The Campaign Trail – July 23, 1984

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – July 23, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Thirty years ago today we were knee-deep in anticipation of the 1984 Olympics and eye-ball deep in 1984 Presidential Electioneering. Optimism on the Mondale-Ferraro Campaign with new poll

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