– CBS Morning News Roundup – August 6, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – President Truman Announcement of Atomic Bomb drop – Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 – Truman Library-Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 6, 1945 – eighty years ago, the world changed forever. But you wouldn’t
– Don Hollenbeck And the News – CBS Radio – July 23, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With news for this July 23rd in 1951 focused on President Truman‘s upbeat assessment of the country mid-way through 1951 and cautious reports on negotiations in Korea toward an armistice, news
CBS Radio – VE Day Reports – May 8, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – – Mutual/WOR – Broadcast Day – 11:30 am – 1:30 pm -May 8, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. After a day of jumping the gun, official news that the War in Europe was
– NBC News Of The World – April 16, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection- On this day, 80 years ago, America was still coming to grips with the loss of President Roosevelt. But there was still a war going on, and events were unfolding quickly. At airtime, the German
Thinking back on Cabinet position resignations in the past, not a lot mired in scandal come to mind before the days of the Nixon Administration in the 70s. Although I’m sure there have been, off the top of my head I can’t think of any. Prior to that it was
CBS Radio – Sumner Welles – UN Address – Dec. 11, 1948 – With the Cold War unfolding, Independence movements springing up everywhere and disputes breaking out all around the Post-War World, it was a crucial period in U.S. history that a cohesive Foreign Policy was established, and even more
– Arthur Mann Reporting from London – November 5, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – During that period of time, between September of 1939 and May of 1940, known as The Phony War. Preparations were being made in anticipation of another long series of trench battles – just as
– Voices and Events for week ending September 10, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A week where the vagaries of Human Nature went haywire, this Septmeber 10th in 1949. Starting with news of a deadly mass shooting in Camden New Jersey. The lone gunman, Howard Unruh, claiming people
– August 14, 1951 – Don Hollenbeck for Edward R. Murrow and The News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 14, 1951 – 73 years ago we were in the middle of the Red Scare, but we were also in the middle of something more dark and sinister than
– Chicago University Roundtable: Atomic Force: It’s Meaning for Mankind – August 12, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the world waited for the official end of World War 2, and as the effects of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki began to settle in, the question
