– October 27, 2002 – BBC World Service – Radio Moscow World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 27, 2002 – news for this was about the end of a three-day hostage ordeal in Moscow. An estimated 40 to 50 armed Chechens took over The Dubrovka Theater in
– February 9, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 9, 1979 – The ongoing situation in Love Canal, the Niagara Falls area of New York State was escalating on this particular day, 37 years ago. Now the area of evacuation was getting wider,
Part 1: Part 2: While the landmark Supreme Court decision was being handed down regarding same sex marriage this day in 2015, here’s a reminder of just how far we’ve come as a society from where we were 52 years ago, almost to the day. Known as The Stonewall Riots,
– March 8, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 8, 1942 – ominous silence from Batavia this day. No news from Java in over 24 hours. The last communication from Bandong was via radio at 7:55 in the morning before shutting down, with
June 21, 1977 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 21,1977 – the day oil flowed through the middle of Alaska and Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was hiding somewhere out of plain sight. First off was news on the economy. The Labor Department released its
March 14,1983 – CBS World News Roundup – Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 14,1983 – Busy news day. In London, OPEC Ministers were gathering in the hopes of coming up with a benchmark oil price of $29.00 a barrel and new production quotas. Of the 13
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