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Turning Up The Heat – Cranking Up The Rhetoric – October 7, 1980

Click on the link here for Audio Player – News for October 7, 1980 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With four weeks to the day until the 1980 Presidential Election would be over, all eyes…

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October 7, 2013

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A Word From John Paul II From The United Nations About A World Gone Askew – October 5, 1995

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Pope John Paul II Addresses United Nations General Assembly – October 5, 1995 – NPR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Billed as the last address he would give at a gathering…

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October 6, 2013

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Janis Joplin – Live At The Concertgebouw – 1969 – Nights At The Roundtable: Lest We Forget

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Janis Joplin and The Kozmic Blues Band – Live at The Concertgebouw – April 11, 1969 – VPRO Hard, if not impossible to imagine it’s been 43 years since Janis Joplin…

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October 4, 2013

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Last Time The Lights Went Out – Government Shutdown’s Greatest Hits – Dec. 1995 – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player – News reports on Government Shutdown – December 16-21, 1995 – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With word today of the impasse on Capitol Hill and the resulting shutdown…

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October 1, 2013

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Because Of A Quarrel In A Faraway Country, Between People Of Whom We Know Nothing – September 27, 1938

Click on the link here for Audio Player – Prime Minister Chamberlain Address on Munich Crisis – September 27, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this September 27th in 1938 was grim. The crisis in Munich was rapidly…

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September 27, 2013

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President Kennedy At The UN – September 25, 1961

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”46625″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”pres-kennedy-un-address-sept-25-1961″ content_type=”link”] Subscribers can download for free:Become a Patron! A United Nations address during times of great change. East-West relations were tenuous at best. UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjold had been killed while on a fact-finding…

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September 25, 2013

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September 25, 1963 – The Valachi Hearings – The Profumo Scandal – Testimony On Capitol Hill

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10273″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 25, 1963 – News On The Hour – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Busy month for scandals, revelations and upheavals. September in 1963 was no different, it seems. On this day…

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September 25, 2013

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September 23, 1960 – Rumble On 46th Street – Communists And The Congo – Report From The United Nations

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”10262″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”September 23, 1960 – Report From The UN – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] September, 1960 was a milestone year for The United Nations. With Africa going through Independence upheavals, Cuba flexing…

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September 24, 2013

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Hanging On An Empty Promise – September 24, 1938

Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News reports on Munich Crisis – September 24, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News for this day in 1938 was about the crisis over German demands for land…

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September 24, 2013

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Saving It By Destroying It – September 23, 1967

Click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC News Around The World – September 23, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Waking up to the news this morning in 1967 had much to do with the endless war…

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September 23, 2013
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