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Nelson Mandela – Milestone Moments – Past Daily Reference Room

Click on the link here for Audio Player: Election Night – May 9, 1994 Click on the link here for Audio Player: Inauguration addresses – May 10, 1994 As news from South Africa today isn’t optimistic over the condition of…

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June 24, 2013
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A Celebration And A Coup – June 19, 1955

Click on the link here for Audio Player: While the United Nations were preparing to celebrate 10 years as a peacemaking body on the 20th of June, a military coup was going on in Argentina, with a plan to oust…

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June 19, 2013

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No Miracle. No Wonder. Just Drama – May 31, 1947

Click on the link here for Audio Player: A day fairly overflowing with drama, but for different reasons and in different parts of Planet Earth for this last day of May in 1947. Starting with news that the…

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May 31, 2013

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An LBJ Press Conference – May 30, 1968

Not to be a pain or anything, but . . .Become a Patron! A Presidential Press Conference for this May 30th in 1968. President Johnson, mindful of his declaration in not seeking another term for the 1968 elections, was still…

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May 30, 2013
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Class of ’53 – Teenagers Of The 50s – Past Daily Pop Chronicles

Click on the link here for Audio Player: Sixty years ago, almost to the day, America was muddling over the question “what’s happening to today’s youth?” – Crime was up, juvenile delinquency was up, unwanted pregnancies were up,…

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May 27, 2013

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Spiro Speaks – An Interview With vice-President Spiro Agnew – May 17, 1970

Click on the link here for Audio Player: With the disastrous events at Kent and Jackson State and the rising opposition to the War in Southeast Asia and our incursion into Cambodia, the White House desperately needed…

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May 17, 2013

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May 16, 1958 : Vice-president Nixon In South America – Having An Entire Continent Despise You.

Click on the link here for Audio Player: News on this day in 1958 had to do with the aftermath of the disastrous visit by vice-President Nixon to South America. In each of the stops on this State…

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May 16, 2013

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May 6, 1981 – Bobby Sands: When The Hunger Strike Goes Very Wrong.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”8157″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”May 6, 1981 – News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! Not so much a cause for alarm, an ominous glimpse of things to come or a cautionary tale, but rather a…