On its fiftieth anniversary, CBS airs roll call of its past and then-present news and entertainment stars, one after another, in front of Television City in Hollywood--forty-five years ago this week--watch (3 mins.):
@peterbakernyt In which John Connally richly earns his reputation for being cynical, self-centered, rapacious and coldblooded. Congrats to @peterbakernyt for revealing details of this important historical moment.
@peterbakernyt Look what kind of soulless pirate John Connally was. In Dallas car in 1963, he was shot and JFK was killed. Here, in JFK's old Oval Office, he poses for 1971 photo with shotgun next to Kennedy's old rival, sucking up to Nixon in effort to become his Presidential successor:
@peterbakernyt What Connally did to delay the Iran hostage release so Reagan could cinch 1980 election echoes what Nixon's emissaries did to sabotage LBJ's peace talks to cinch the 1968 election for Nixon. Connally was extremely close to Nixon in 1980. Any chance Nixon gave Connally the idea?
This late Chicago mobster bit a policeman's finger off, but that was hardly the worst thing he ever did. Anyone know who he was? (My fellow Chicagoans are welcome to reply.)
Which eminent American leader had recently resided for years (and would again) in the hotel where the New York mobster Albert Anastasia in 1957 took his final breath?
The Park Sheraton Hotel barber shop where the mobster Anastasia was gunned down in 1957 much later became a Starbucks, whose managers wisely chose to ignore history and not display New York tabloid photos of Anastasia's long-ago demise on their floor.
Walter Cronkite’s call-in show from Oval Office, “Ask President Carter,” this month 1977:
Watch Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd as Walter Cronkite and Jimmy Carter on SNL, 1977. Includes Carter’s advice on caller's Orange Sunshine overdose and call from mysterious ex-President in California looking for money:
Aykroyd on SNL as the hip President Carter: "Peter, what kind of acid did you take?"
A week after Bloody Sunday in Selma, LBJ invited Alabama Governor George Wallace to White House and, in private, asked him if he wanted his epitaph to be “He Hated” or “He Built”—today 1965 :
After private meeting with George Wallace at the White House, LBJ writes him a telegram complaining about his failure to protect voting rights marchers in Alabama, this month 1965:
George Wallace for President 1964 phonograph record: