Video: Mar. 23, 1973 (at 4:32)
(Friday, March 23, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — Before sentencing a group of Watergate break-in defendants today, Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica read aloud a letter to him from James W. McCord Jr. which said there had been “political pressure” to “plead guilty and remain silent.” Continue reading McCord letter reveals ‘political pressure’ on Watergate defendants 40 years ago today (1973)
Video: 'The Beatles - Paul Mccartney - Here, There and Everywhere (Live)'
(Monday, March 22, 1993) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney performed today at Parramatta Stadium in Parramatta, Australia, during the Oceania leg of his The New World Tour, recording “Here, There and Everywhere” for his Paul Is Live! album and Paul Is Live – The New World Tour video.
Video: Mar. 22, 1973 (at 0:11)
(Thursday, March 22, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — In the West Wing office of White House Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman office, former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell told Haldeman, top Nixon aide John Ehrlichman and Presidential Counsel John Dean that former CIA officer and “E. Howard Hunt was not a ‘problem’ any longer,” suggesting the Watergate burglary organizer had been paid off.
Video: 'The World at War - Episode 1 - A New Germany' (Oranienburg concentration camp at 5:45)
(Tuesday, March 21, 1933) — Local SA stormtroopers took over a vacant factory building in the town centre of Oranienburg today and set up the first concentration camp in the state of Prussia.
Video: 'Kennedy Visits Costa Rica - clip 18656'
(Wednesday, March 20, 1963; during the Cold War) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy, winding up his three-day solidarity meeting presidents of six Central American republics, told an enthusiastic crowd of 10,000 at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose, Costa Rica, today that Cuba is an example of communism’s failure to provide for its people.
Video: 'The Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt'
(Monday, March 20, 1933, 9:27 a.m. local time) — The state of Florida electrocuted Giuseppe Zangara today for the shooting death of Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak at a Miami event attended by then President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, the presumed target, on February 15, 1933.
Cermak died March 6, 1933, at a Miami hospital at age 59, two days after FDR took office.
Video: '1952 Oscar Winners'
(Thursday, March 19, 1953, 10:30 p.m. EST) — The Greatest Show On Earth won two Oscars tonight at the 25th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. John Ford won Best Director for The Quiet Man, Gary Cooper won Best Actor for High Noon and Shirley Booth won Best Actress for Come Back, Little Sheba. Continue reading ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’ wins Best Picture at 25th Academy Awards 50 years ago this hour (1953)
(Thursday, March 18, 1993) — A report by a team of child abuse experts in Connecticut today cleared filmmaker Woody Allen of charges he molested his 7-year-old adopted daughter. Allen’s former girlfriend, actress Mia Farrow, had accused him of molesting the child.
(Monday, March 12, 1973; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, a freed prisoner of the Vietnam War, was joyously greeted today by his family on the tarmac at Travis Air Force Base in California in a scene captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Slava Veder of The Associated Press.
Video: 'David Day & Paul McCartney 1993'
(Saturday, March 13, 1993) — Former Beatle Paul McCartney was interviewed today by David Day backstage before his concert at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, Australia, during his New World Tour.
