Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jack Widner, who shares this third (and final) recording which includes coverage of the August 19, 1991 Soviet Coup Attempt from the BBC. Jack shares the following recording notes:
BBC news & reports. Starts with battle at Parliament building (known as the White House)
03:32 Kevin Connaly's on the scene report after the battle started
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jack Widner, who shares this second recording which includes coverage of the August 19, 1991 Soviet Coup Attempt from the BBC. Jack shares the following recording notes:
BBC reports
03:35 plays R. Moscow reading TASS bulletin of Gorbachev unable to fulfill duties
43:00 comments from Frank Gaffney; Gaffney was an ardent supporter of SDI under Weinberger & as late as 1996 was attempting to get new House leader Gingrich to get it going again.
43:45 a clip about Gorbachev's (?) attempt to quash Lithuanian independence (report says it was not clear that Gorbachev authorised this).
The majority of this audio assumes Gorbachev will be replaced
Poster of the putsch of August 1991. The confrontation between the Republican Russian Government and the Union State Government the USSR (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Jack Widner, who shares this recording that includes coverage of the August 19, 1991 Soviet Coup Attempt. Jack shares the following recording notes:
Reports from BBC, radio Moscow, and a snip at the end of Czech Radio announcing the end of the state of emergency
Radio Moscow--Slight interruption at 5:15-30
BBC 05:30 - 12:46
Radio Moscow 12:47 -- note the news item on Yugoslavia of Slovenia's independence moves 18:25. This was the beginning of the dissolution of Yugoslavia
BBC 20:08
Radio Moscow 26:16 "News & Views"
BBC 27:10
Radio Moscow World service 28:11
Their interval signal at 38:03 the news that Gorbachev is back in control
BBC 40:24
Moscow 46:33
Radio Prague (?) 46:56 announces end of state of emergency
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