French Elections of 1951 – NBC Radio: Yesterday,Today and Tomorrow – June 17, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sixty-six years ago today, France went to the polls. This time to elect the Second national Assembly of the Fourth Republic. After World War 2, the three major political parties
April 11, 1948 – Clifton Utley Commentary – Postwar Europe – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Strange to think, we were less than three years out of one World War and we were in danger of getting involved in another one. This one was over hearts and minds, of sorts.
March 27, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 27, 1990 – the continuing story of breakaway republics from the Soviet Union. This time it was Lithuania – and this time Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev decided to play hardball. He sent his troops after
February 24, 1978 – CBS Radio: The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 24, 1978 – 11th hour negotiations for a settlement in the Coal Miners strike brought a cautious sigh of relief to the country, this day 39 years ago. Two hours ahead of Federal intervention
January 25, 1980 – CBS Radio News On The Hour + Newsmark: Detroit + Spectrum – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 25, 1980 – News for this day was mostly about the upcoming Summer Olympics in Moscow and the snag it hit by way of the Soviet invasion of
January 24, 1958 – Dag Hammarskjold Nuclear Disarmament Talks – UN Radio Today – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 24, 1958 – the Cold War 50s and the United Nations was filled with anticipated Nuclear Disarmament talks. At the helm, and pleading the case for sanity in this new
President Eisenhower – Press Conference – May 31, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Presidential Press Conferences during the Eisenhower years. Continuing a look at Presidential press conferences from the past few decades, President Eisenhower during his two terms of office. 1955 put America right in the middle
America United: What About 1950? – December 18, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1950? America; coming to the end of a turbulent decade in December of 1949. We openly wondered what was in store for us in the new decade? What were we going to be doing?
December 14, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 14, 1991 – After spending a considerable amount of time negotiating a non-aggression pact between North Korea and South Korea, and signing the pact only the day before; word came out that, in fact North
November 21, 1961 – NBC Radio: Emphasis With Chet Huntley – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1961 was shaping up to being a very interesting year. It was the first full year of a new administration and the Cold War showed no signs of letting up. Coupled with the growing
