The News Vault from KCBS Radio

This is a complete KCBS Radio aircheck of the 4 PM to 5 PM hour on Sunday, October 22, 2000. Dave Padilla anchors. The m... Read more

A special edition of the "KCBS NewsMagazine", hosted by Michael Dixon. This remote broadcast in the summer of 1983 origi... Read more

In 1968, attorney Roy Cohn sat down for an interview with KCBS Radio anchor Frank Knight. At that time, Cohn was less th... Read more

On September 22, 1975, President Gerald Ford was the target of an assassination attempt outside the St. Francis Hotel in... Read more

The legendary broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite was interviewed for the weekly KCBS Radio series "In Depth" by Rebecc... Read more

This collection of pieces by KCBS Radio reporters came from the week of February 17-21, 1986, when historic rainfall inu... Read more

In March of 1988, the legendary radio broadcast "The World News Roundup" turned 50.  The weekly CBS Radio program "Newsm... Read more

On July 26, 1993, a railroad car being unloaded at the General Chemical plant in Richmond began to leak.  A massive toxi... Read more

A power failure inside the Transbay Tube led to massive headaches for BART commuters in 1996.  KCBS Radio reporters on b... Read more

In August, 1964, The Beatles launched their first American tour, and the first stop was San Francisco. In the midst of B... Read more

"That's feeding, not eating": one of the unrestrained comments from famed chef, broadcaster and writer Julia Child in th... Read more

On May 24, 1967, KCBS Radio host Harv Morgan devoted his nighttime “Contact” program to a discussion of the brewing cris... Read more

In May 1989, KCBS Radio reporter Mike Sugerman looked into a controversy surrounding the California Victims Compensation... Read more

During his 1987 visit to the United States and Canada, Pope John Paul II spent two days in Northern California. KCBS Rad... Read more

This is a portion of KCBS Radio live coverage around 9am on March 5, 1983 as President and Mrs. Reagan accompanied Brita... Read more

KCBS Radio reporter Stan Bunger produced this special report, interviewing Nazi death camp survivor (and Bay Area reside... Read more

A winter freeze in early 1991 severely damaged millions of dollars’ worth of California crops. But there was also a huma... Read more

Jane Riley spent 30 years at KCBS Radio. She was hired in 1971 for a secretarial job and spent many years as the adminis... Read more

This program, hosted by Hilly Rose, examined the defeat of a bond measure that would have funded the reconstruction of t... Read more

Al Douglas was well-known to KCBS Radio evening listeners in the 1960’s. He hosted a call-in program called “Viewpoint” ... Read more