Video: Dirksen speech July 9, 1952
(Wednesday, July 9, 1952) — Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York incurred yelling disapproval tonight at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Continue reading Dewey gets barrage of boos, yells during Dirksen speech at Republican National Convention 60 years ago tonight (1952)
Video: McCarthy speech July 9, 1952
(Wednesday, July 9, 1952) — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin told a cheering Republican National Convention today he would not soften his blows on the communist issues because “a rough fight is the only fight communists can understand.”
Video: 'Declassified U.S. Nuclear Test Film #62'
(Sunday, July 8, 1962, 11:00:09 p.m. HAST) — The United States tonight conducted Starfish Prime, a nuclear test in which a 1.44 megaton warhead was detonated 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. The resulting electromagnetic pulse caused limited electrical disruptions in parts of Hawaii.
Video: 'Michael Jackson exposing Tommy Mottola'
(Saturday, July 7, 2002) — Michael Jackson made a bizarre appearance at a rally in New York today to denounce the recording industry as racist and Sony chairman Tommy Mottola as devilish.
Video: Republicans convene (at 0:07)
(Monday, July 7, 1952) — The Republican National Convention opened today at International Amphitheatre in Chicago with both General Dwight D. Eisenhower of Kansas and Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio locked in a tight battle for the presidential nomination. Continue reading Republican National Convention opens in Chicago 60 years ago today (1952)
Video: 'Ringo Starr - Going Home - Part 1' (performances captured on July 6, 1992; interviews were done Sept. 29,1992)
(Monday July 6, 1992) — On the day before his 52nd birthday, Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr returned to his birthplace of Liverpool tonight for a concert with his All-Starr band before 2,300 people at the Empire Theatre. Continue reading Ringo Starr performs in hometown of Liverpool 20 years ago tonight (1992)
Video: Galella on Kennedy (at 1:16)
(Wednesday, July 5, 1972) — In the famous free-speech trial Galella v. Onassis, former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis today obtained a restraining order to keep photographer and pioneer paparazzo Ron Galella 50 feet away from her and 75 feet away from her children having had “relentlessly invaded” her privacy in New York.
Video: 'JULY 05 1962. the end of a world, the oran massacre, the pied noirs forced to leave algeria'
(Thursday, July 5, 1962) — Independence took effect in Algeria today as civilians of European descent, mostly French, came under attack by extremists in the port city of Oran. Reports of the death toll vary from about a hundred to the thousands.
Video: July 4, 1862 (at 15:06)
(Friday, July 4, 1862, during the American Civil War) — Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner today repeatedly urged President Lincoln to use the Independence Day holiday to adopt a policy of emancipation.
“I would do it if I were not afraid that half the officers would fling down their arms and three more states would rise,” President Lincoln reportedly told Sumner.
Video: 'Birdman of Alcatraz' trailer
(Tuesday, July 3, 1962) — Birdman of Alcatraz, a fictionalized film version of the life of Robert Stroud, a federal prison inmate known as the “Birdman of Alcatraz” because of his life with birds, opened today in the U.S. Continue reading ‘Birdman of Alcatraz’ opens in the U.S. 50 years ago today (1962)
