January 26, 1979 – CBS Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 26, 1979 – The big news came towards the end of the day. Bulletins hit the airwaves that former four-time New York Governor and vice-President Nelson Rockefeller had died suddenly of a massive heart attack at
– ABC Radio World News This Week – October 3, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Hard to say “business as usual” this first week in October, 1976. The Presidential Campaign was officially a month-old and despite widespread yawns from both sides of the political aisle, polls showed the Carter-Ford
– CBS World News Roundup – October 1, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this first day of October in 1985 was hopeful, vengeful and sad. The hopeful part came in the form of the upcoming Summit talks in Geneva between Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev and President
CBS Radio – The World This Week – Weekend ending September 12, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The fragile nature of people, this week in 1974. Starting with news of the health of former-and-now-pardoned President Nixon, whom many said was in a downward physical spiral after the epic
News of the Day – August 8, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Fifty-one years ago today, the Great National Nightmare, as Gerald Ford put it, was over. After months of investigations, hearings and discoveries, the end of an era had finally come to pass. Speculation had been
– ABC Radio – World News This Week – April 24, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for the week, ending on this April 24th in 1994, had much to do with the passing of former President Richard Nixon, who died on the 22nd from complications of a
– President Clinton – Address to Joint Session of Congress – Feb. 17, 1993 – NPR – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A wave of optimism, this February 17th in 1993. President Clinton, addressing a Joint Session of Congress, presented his plan for building the economy, cutting waste and bringing
– CBS World News Roundup – February 6, 1992 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another crack at some sort of affordable healthcare started making the rounds, this February 6th in 1992. President George (HW) Bush was proposing a plan for health coverage for the millions of Americans with no
– President-Elect Jimmy Carter – First Press Conference -November 4, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – President-Elect Jimmy Carter, in his first press conference since winning the White House, from November 4, 1976. In retrospect probably not an earth-shattering press conference, certainly sedate by todays standards, but a press
– ABC World News This Week – October 31, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Election ’76: Down to the wire – the last full week of campaigning before America went to the polls, this week ending October 31st, in 1976. President Ford and Jimmy Carter and, by the
