On @TODAY show, Joe Garagiola, Barbara Walters and Frank McGee from Democratic convention, Miami Beach, fifty years ago this week:
Jesse Jackson and Illinois delegates at 1972 Democratic convention, fifty years ago this week:
In red, white and blue, Barbara Walters of @TODAYshow interviews feminists Bella Abzug, Liz Carpenter, Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan at Democratic convention, Miami Beach, fifty years ago this week:
Shirley MacLaine and California delegates, Democratic convention, Miami Beach, fifty years ago this week: #AP
Turned out that the anonymous author of the epithet “acid, amnesty and abortion,” which Nixon’s campaign used against McGovern in 1972, was Thomas Eagleton, in an off-the-record interview with Robert Novak.
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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!"