Daily Archives: September 29, 2011

‘The Shelter’ debuts on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour


Video: 'The Shelter' (part 1)

(Friday, September 29, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading ‘The Shelter’ debuts on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour

First Moscow Conference opens 70 years ago today


Video: Lord Beaverbrook arrives in Moscow @ 8:14

(Monday, September 29, 1941) — The First Moscow Conference opened today as American Averell Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook representing the United Kingdom met with Joseph Stalin to give assurances that those two leading Allies of World War II would aid and support the Soviet Union in the common fight against Nazi Germany.