One of last photos of Buddy Holly, today 1959, performing at Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake, Iowa, Winter Dance Party, before his death with the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens in plane crash the next morning:
Surf Ballroom, where Holly, Big Bopper and Valens gave final performance today 1959, still stands and is still used in 2022:
Buddy Holly’s February 1959 overnight bag, preserved by his brother, belongs in Smithsonian:
Buddy Holly’s 1959 overnight bag is a small museum of grooming products of the time—anyone recognize anything?
Buddy Holly’s 1959 overnight bag was recovered from plane wreckage in Iowa.
Buddy Holly honored at Iowa crash site of tomorrow 1959:
Sea and Ski, 1958:
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Sixty years ago today, two heroic, courageous and idealistic young Black Americans, Vivian Malone and James Hood, entered the University of Alabama after JFK federalized the Alabama National Guard and Governor George Wallace stepped aside after trying to bar them:
During a partially-improvised Oval Office speech, JFK declares civil rights "a moral issue" and pledges to send comprehensive bill to Congress, sixty years ago tonight:
Medgar Evers, World War II veteran and NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, was murdered outside his home, hours after the civil rights speech JFK gave sixty years ago tonight:
Now why would anyone possibly think that a sudden, loud, unexplained boom in Washington DC on a Sunday afternoon might alarm anyone?
We take you now to the Ellipse, near the White House in Washington DC, where a flying saucer has landed. U.S. military tanks have rolled up, and a nervous crowd has gathered. . .
Someone has just stepped out of the flying saucer that landed near the White House after we heard that boom. He's shouting, "Take us to your leader -- Truman!"