Video: 'Lincoln Assassination Eyewitness (Feb 9, 1956)'
(Thursday, June 19, 1952, 10:30 p.m. EDT) — The celebrity-panel game show I’ve Got A Secret made its debut tonight on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host.
Daily Archives: June 19, 2012
Chinese-American auto engineer Vincent Chin fatally beaten 30 years ago tonight (1982)
Video: 'Who Killed Vincent Chin'
(Saturday, June 19, 1982) — Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American auto engineer, was fatally beaten tonight after a confrontation at the Fancy Pants strip club in Highland Park, Michigan, by two auto workers who later received probation for manslaughter in state court, and won acquittals in federal court.
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Hurricane Agnes makes landfall near Panama City, Florida, 40 years ago this hour (1972)
Video: 'Hurricane Agnes 1972 Flooding'
(Monday, June 19, 1972, shortly before 6 p.m. EDT) — Hurricane Agnes, blamed for at least 122 deaths, made landfall today over the Florida Panhandle.
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Washington Post connects Watergate break-in with White House 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: Washington Post connects Watergate break-in with White House (at 6:23)
(Monday, June 19, 1972) — Based on a tip from Deep Throat, the pseudonym given to a secret informant (later identified as Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt), Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward discovered today that one of the Watergate burglars had E. Howard Hunt in his address book and possessed checks signed by him, and that Hunt was connected to White House aide Charles Colson.
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Dean takes charge of Watergate cover-up 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: June 19, 1972 (at 1:53)
(Monday, June 19, 1972) — White House Counsel John Dean was chosen today to head up the Watergate burglary cover-up, meeting on a park bench near the White House with G. Gordon Liddy, who offered himself to be shot. Continue reading Dean takes charge of Watergate cover-up 40 years ago today (1972)
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‘The Music Man’ opens in the U.S. 50 years ago today (1962)
Video: '76 Trombones'
(Tuesday, June 19, 1962) — The Music Man, a film about a con man who comes to a Midwestern town with a scam using a boy’s marching band program, opened today in the U.S.
The film was directed by Morton DaCosta and stars Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett and Ron Howard. It won one Academy Award and was nominated for five more.
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Congress abolishes slavery in U.S. territories 150 years ago today (1862)
Video: Congress outlaws slavery in territories (at 14:46)
(Thursday, June 19, 1862, during the American Civil War) — Congress passed a measure abolishing slavery in United States territories and President Lincoln quickly signed the legislation today, finally reversing the 1857 opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case that Congress was powerless to regulate slavery in U.S. territories.
