[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”21312″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”May 19, 1980 – CBS News Special Report- Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] CBS Special Report – Miami Riots – May 19, 1980 On May 19, 1980 the city of Miami was entering its third day of racially-charged violence. The cause was, and continues to
This day in 1964 (a Sunday), Meet The Press had Sargent Shriver on as guest. As former head of The Peace Corps, he was tagged by President Johnson to head up the newly declared War On Poverty. The War On Poverty, as LBJ unofficially termed it, was first introduced in
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With the Presidential Campaign of 1936 in its last weeks and at fevered pitch, President Roosevelt embarked on a coast-to-coast tour to bring his message home. In 1936, America was in better shape than it was in 1932. But detractors clamored to call the New Deal a disaster, that The
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Black Journal – Report Card on Black America – January 27, 1969 – NET-TV – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Fifty years ago, we were still very much in the midst of a long and contentious Civil Rights battle in America. This program, a monthly news feature of the pre-PBS
