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December 22, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 22, 1979 – The U.S. Embassy in Tehran was the object of considerable attention this day. The hostages were knee-deep in Day 49 of the drama, with very little relief in sight. But that wasn’t...
December 21,1947 – Story Behind The Headlines – Marshall Plan news – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Secretary of State George Marshall put together a plan for the economic rehabilitation and the reconstruction of post-war Europe. Two years after the end of World War 2, Europe was still struggling under...
America United: What About 1950? – December 18, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1950? America; coming to the end of a turbulent decade in December of 1949. We openly wondered what was in store for us in the new decade? What were we going to be doing?...
December 14, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 14, 1991 – After spending a considerable amount of time negotiating a non-aggression pact between North Korea and South Korea, and signing the pact only the day before; word came out that, in fact North...
December 12, 1981 – CBS Radio News on The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 12, 1981 – A day of Dissidents. The 17-day hunger strike by Soviet Dissidents Andrei Sakharov and wife Yelena Bonner came to an end when Soviet officials unexpectedly granted a reunion with 26...
John Glenn – Flight of Friendship 7 – February 20, 1962 – Hour 1 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – John Glenn – Flight of Friendship 7 – February 20, 1962 – Hour 2 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – John Glenn – Flight of Friendship 7 – February 20,...
November 21, 1961 – NBC Radio: Emphasis With Chet Huntley – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1961 was shaping up to being a very interesting year. It was the first full year of a new administration and the Cold War showed no signs of letting up. Coupled with the growing...
November 10, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 10, 1990 – busy news day, no shortage of cliff-hangers. Secretary of State James Baker met with French officials in an attempt to drum-up support for the pending invasion of Kuwait on this day. Reports...
October 28, 1978 – Sadat-Begin Peace Prize + other news – CBS/NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 28, 1978 began on a hopeful note – announced the previous evening, the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize was being awarded to Egypt‘s Anwar Sadat and Israel‘s Menachem Begin. The reason...
October 8, 1991 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 8, 1991 – a day starting out with good intentions, quickly dissolving into doubts. A Middle East Peace Conference proposal, put forth by U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, dragged Jordan, Syria and the Palestinians...
