Video: '1984 Vice Presidential Debate - George Bush & Geraldine Ferraro'
(Thursday, October 11, 1984, 9:00-10:30 p.m. EDT) — Republican Vice President George H.W. Bush and Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro, his Democratic opponent for that office, engaged in a spirited debate at Pennsylvania Hall Civic Center in Philadelphia tonight in which they clashed repeatedly over President Reagan’s policies.
Video: 'Roy Orbison Oh, Pretty Woman 1964'
(Sunday, October 11, 1964, 8 p.m. EDT) — Roy Orbison appeared on the live CBS television variety series The Ed Sullivan Show for the only time tonight, performing “Oh, Pretty Woman.”
Video: 'Vietnam The Ten Thousand Day War 2of13 Dien Bien Phu' (Oct. 11, 1954, at 29:23)
(Monday, October 11, 1954; during the Cold War) — Transfer of civil administration of North Vietnam to the Viet Minh was given today. Ho Chi Minh was appointed Prime Minister of North Vietnam, which would be run as a socialist state.
Video: 'To Have and Have Not' (trailer)
(Wednesday, October 11, 1944) — To Have and Have Not, a romance-war-adventure film that follows a skipper-for-hire’s romance with a beautiful drifter complicated by his growing involvement with the French resistance, opened today at the Hollywood in New York City.
Directed by Howard Hawks, the film starred Humphrey Bogart, Walter Brennan, Lauren Bacall, Dolores Moran and Hoagy Carmichael.
Video: 'Laura' (trailer)
(Wednesday, October 11, 1944) — Laura, a film noir about a police detective who falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating, opened today at the Roxy in New York City.
Directed by Otto Preminger, the film starred Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson.
Video: 'Eleanor Roosevelt Biography'
(Saturday, October 11, 1884) — Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who served from 1933 to 1945) and the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt (who served from 1901 to 1909), was born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt today at 56 West 37th Street in New York City.
