Video: 'Gerald Ford - Assassination Attempts (02)' (Sept. 22, 1975, at 1:08)
(Thursday, January 15, 1976) — Sara Jane Moore was sentenced today to life in prison by a Federal district judge who said that she would not have tried to kill U.S. President Gerald Ford in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1975, “if we had in this country any effective capital punishment law.”
Moore was released on the last day of 2007.
Video: 'First Ladies Preview: Eliza Johnson'
(Saturday, January 15, 1876) — Former U.S. First Lady Eliza McCardle Johnson, who served with her husband, President Andrew Johnson, from 1865 to 1869, died today in Greeneville, Tennessee, from complications due to tuberculosis at age 65, having survived her husband by only five and a half months.
(Saturday, January 15, 1966) — “Five O’Clock World” by The Vogues peaked at #4 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
Video: 'The Beatles Cartoon Episode 17'
(Saturday, January 15, 1966, 10:30 a.m. EST) — The Beatles are aboard a sightseeing ship, when Paul is lured from that ship onto a ghost ship, and later, John takes the Beatles sight-seeing at a New York museum on this morning’s episode of The Beatles, a weekly cartoon television series on ABC.
