After the jury verdict acquitting four Los Angeles Police officers of criminal charges in the Rodney King beating, rioting claimed more than 60 lives, did over a billion dollars in damage, and led to more than 12,000 arrests.

On June 26, 1992, KCBS Radio broadcast a special report called "Beyond the Anger", looking at the issues of inner-city hopelessness and poverty, as well as signs of positive movement.  Reporters Mike Sugerman, Jerry Wilcox and George Harris contributed.

The winter of 1986 saw two weeks of non-stop rain inundate Northern California. The wettest day of that stretch was Monday February 17th, when 10 weather stations scattered across northern California reported 24-hour rainfall totals of more than 10 inches. This segment is captured as KCBS Radio began its 9 p.m. hour. Wayne Jordan is anchoring, with reporters Bob Melrose and Lynn Jimenez contributing.

In 1985, KCBS Radio reporter Barbara Taylor, a longtime San Francisco City Hall reporter, produced a 28-minute "KCBS Reports" segment on the mayoral administration of Dianne Feinstein. By then, Feinstein had already been an elected official in San Francisco for 16 years.

This episode of the KCBS Radio interview series "In Depth" featured former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. The interviewers are KCBS Radio Anchor Mike Pulsipher and News Director Ed Cavagnaro.

On October 8, 1968, Black Panther leader and Peace and Freedom Party Presidential candidate Eldridge Cleaver held a news conference in Oakland.  He reacted to the news that the Supreme Court of the United States had refused to intervene in Cleaver's battle to appear on the California ballot in the 1968 Presidential election. California Secretary of State Frank M. Jordan had ruled that since Cleaver would not be the Constitutionally-required 35 years of age by the time of the Presidential inauguration, he was not a legitimate candidate.

On January 7, 1958, KCBS Radio news editor Dick Leonard appeared as a witness in a San Francisco criminal trial. Leonard's appearance was noteworthy not just because a journalist had been called to testify, but also because Superior Court Judge Raymond Arata allowed him to record the proceedings with the relatively-new tool for radio reporters: a "Mohawk Midgetape" audio recorder.

This audio file was created from a reel-to-reel tape dubbed from the original Midgetape recording and is incomplete due to multiple breaks in the tape.

Between October 12 and 20 1992, KCBS Radio aired a series of pieces by reporter Doug Sovern marking the one-year anniversary of the Oakland Hills firestorm, also known as the Tunnel Fire. That fire killed 25 people and destroyed more than 3,000 homes and apartment units.

On the 25th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, KCBS Radio anchor Stan Bunger compiled a report weaving together excerpts from the 1963 live coverage and memories from Bay Area residents who recalled where they were when they heard the news.  The report begins with the show Arthur Godfrey Time, which was airing on KCBS Radio when the reports began to stream in from Dallas.

On New Year’s Eve 2000, KCBS Radio re-broadcast a special report entitled “Drinking and Driving—The Killer Next Door”.  Reporter Mike Sugerman took listeners beyond the statistics and inside the personal stories.

On April 16, 1992 KCBS Radio aired a lengthy interview by reporter Jerry Wilcox with death row inmate Pedro Arias. Wilcox met with Arias at San Quentin Prison, where Arias, a convicted murderer from Sacramento, had been sent two years earlier to await his execution. The interview was broadcast less than a week before the scheduled execution of Robert Alton Harris marked the resumption of executions in California after a 25-year hiatus.