Daily Archives: March 29, 2014

‘Columbia Pictures Doing Burns and Allen Story’ episode airs on ‘The Burns and Allen Show’ 60 years ago this hour (Mar 29 1954)


Video: 'Burns and Allen: Columbia Pictures Doing Burns and Allen Story'

(Monday, March 29, 1954, 8:00 p.m. ) — Columbia is doing the Burns and Allen story and everybody wants to get into the act on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom series The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.

This episode is listed as #56 on TV Guide‘s 1997 list of Top 100 Episodes of All Time.

President Nixon honors Vietnam veterans 40 years ago this hour (Mar 29 1974)


Video: 'Vietnam The Ten Thousand Day War 10of13 The Village War DivX521 AC3 www MVGroup org' (Mar. 29, 1974, at 444:33)

(Friday, March 29, 1974, 12:35 p.m. EDT; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President Richard Nixon said today the Americans who served in Vietnam can be proud that the “American effort … was in good conscience, honorably undertaken and honorably ended.”