Video: 'PORT HURON STATEMENT DN041312'
(Friday, June 15, 1962) — Students for a Democratic Society, at the conclusion of a five-day convention in Michigan, issued the Port Huron Statement calling for disarmament, enfranchisement of “publicly disinherited groups” and social change.
Video: 'Atom Sub. President Officiates At Laying Of Keel 1952 Newsreel'
(Saturday, June 14, 1952) — U.S. President Harry S Truman officiated at the keel-laying of the nuclear-powered submarine USS Nautilus today at the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, Connecticut.
Video: 'Lolita' profiled (at 7:05)
(Wednesday, June 13, 1962) — Lolita, a comedy-drama film about a middle-aged man who becomes obsessed with a teenage girl, opened tonight at the Loew’s State and the Murray Hill theaters in New York City.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick, the film stars James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon and Peter Sellers.
Video: 'Wartime Nutrition (1943) '
(Saturday, June 13, 1942, during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Office of War Information (OWI) today to consolidate government information services, and appointed radio news commentator Elmer Davis to be its head.
(Friday, June 12, 1942, 6:45 p.m. EWT) — U.S. President D. Roosevelt called on the American people tonight to dig into their attics, cellars, garages and barns for old rubber articles of every description and sell them to 400,000 neighborhood gasoline filling stations for 1 cent a pound between June 15-30 as a contribution to the nation’s all-out effort to defeat the Axis.
Video: 'Ivanhoe' trailer
(Tuesday, June 12, 1952) — A Royal premiere was held today in London for Ivanhoe, a film about a noble knight torn between his fair lady and a beautiful Jew.
The film was directed by Richard Thorpe and stars Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine and George Sanders.
Video: Stuart's troops begin ride (at 19:10)
(Thursday, June 12, 1862, part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War) — Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart began his ride around the Army of the Potomac today in Virginia after being sent on a reconnaissance of Union positions by Robert E. Lee in a prelude of the Seven Days Battles.
Video: 'Paul McCartney & Heather Mills - Entertainment Tonight (6-6-01)'
(Tuesday, June 11, 2002) — Rock star Paul McCartney married Heather Mills today in a remote Irish castle. The couple divorced in 2008.
Video: 'President John F. Kennedy's Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11, 1962'
(Monday, June 11, 1962) — President John F. Kennedy urged today that his economic critics get in step with the times and said the government must be a partner with all sectors of society if America is to propser. Continue reading JFK calls for cooperation of business in Yale speech 50 years ago today (1962)
Video: June 10, 1952 (at 3:34)
(Tuesday, June 10, 1952, during the Korean War, part of the Cold War) — American paratroopers of the “Angels from Hell” combat team emptied Compound 76 of its 6,000 fanatical North Korean prisoners of war today in 2 1/2 hours of bloody fighting on Koje Island, off the South Korean coast.
It had been a month since the prisoners in Compound 76 had taken the camp commandant, Brig. Gen. Francis T. Dodd, hostage for 78 hours.
