Daily Archives: February 9, 2012

‘Kick the Can’ episode airs on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour (1962)


Video: 'Kick the Can' clip

(Friday, February 9, 1962, 10 p.m. ET) — A retirement home resident (Ernest Truex) finds a way to regain his youth on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV anthology series The Twilight Zone. Continue reading ‘Kick the Can’ episode airs on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour (1962)

Medill warns Lincoln about General McClellan 150 years ago today (1862)

Video: Medill's Feb. 9, 1862, letter (at 11:49)

(Sunday, February 9, 1862, during the American Civil War)Joseph Medill, co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, wrote to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln today, warning him that General George B. McClellan “has almost ruined your administration and the country” by “placating the rebels.”