– Little Rock – Integration – Oct. 17, 1957 – Sixty-Six years ago, starting in September, the controversy and the battle began over Integration in public schools. Nowhere was it more contentious than in the South, where Federal troops were sent in to insure School Integration legislation was carried out.
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ABC Radio: Baukhage Talking – news for October 3, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A nervous October day in 1949. News of China – strikes dragging on, news of a creeping paranoia over Communists, news of Capitol Hill gamesmanship. Starting off was news that Associate Justice William O. Douglas
– July 7, 1998 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 7, 1998, and the third return of the notorious Linda Tripp to the Grand Jury to lay out some 20 hours of taped phone conversations with Monica Lewinsky. The scandal involving the White House
– News for the Week of June 27, 1973 – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the bombs were falling in the hearing room on Capitol Hill, over the latest harrowing disclosures by former Nixon aide John Dean, bombs and distractions of another kind were
– June 19, 1968 – Coretta Scott King – Solidarity Day Address – Gordon Skene Sound Collection 1968 saw no end of turmoil and upheaval in the world. In the first six months alone there was the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.
And a year to the day after the “official” VE Day end to the War in Europe, the creeping Cold War was making its presence known on this May 8th in 1946. As Europe continued to dig itself out of the wreckage of five years of war, new ominous clouds
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– News – April 11, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this April 11th in 1972 was, by admission of the newscaster on this broadcast; busy. First was news regarding the ongoing war in Vietnam. The North Vietnamese offensive into South Vietnam was going into its 13th
The true seriousness of the day wasn’t really known for almost 24 hours after the initial event occurred. The Nuclear Power Plant accident at 3-Mile Island on March 28, 1979 began at 4:00 in the morning and almost instantly there was a scramble to pretend nothing was wrong. So the
