August 10, 1979 – CBS Radio: The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 10, 1979 – News of shakeups and rearranging at the Carter White House this day. The controversy over President Carter‘s Cabinet changes finally simmered down, and the shakeup of the White House Staff was
July 21, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 21, 1988 – One half of The Great National Ritual inched toward conclusion this day. From Atlanta, the Democratic Convention made it official; Michael Dukakis was the appointed Standard-bearer, and Lloyd Bentsen was designated running
July 11, 1983 – CBS World News Roundup + 9:00 am network news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 11, 1983 – News for this day started with word on the mysterious disappearance of 15-year old Emanuela Orlandi, whose father was an employee of the Vatican and whose kidnapping
Abdullah Ibrahim Quartet – Live At Jazz Festival Lugano – July 27, 1981 – RAI Radio 3 – Kick in a few, if you can: Become a Patron! Abdullah Ibrahim, from Jazz Lugano in 1981 this week. One of the primary figures in the South African Jazz scene since the
June 9, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup: Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 9, 2000 – The big news this day were findings of a Justice Department investigation into Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s assassination and concluding that it was not the object of a conspiracy,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – September 25, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Africa was a hotbed of change, this September 25th in 1979. With the overthrow of the Central African Emperor Bokassa, who likened himself to Napoleon and ordered massacres
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
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup + The World Tonight – August 22, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A busy and controversial day – no less controversial than the abrupt resignation from UN Ambassadorship of Andrew Young, who announced his leaving in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Coup in Russia – CBS Radio/BBC World Service – August 20, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection On this August 20th in 1991, Russian history would stage a repeat of 1964. In that year, Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev was overthrown in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS World News Roundup – August 6, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this August 6th in 1980 was decidedly political in nature. It was a Presidential election year. The Popularity/promise-them-anything campaign was in full swing. The latest was
