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.

Eight guardsmen indicted for Kent State shootings 40 years ago today (Mar 29 1974)


Video: 'DOJ Refuses to Reopen Kent State Shootings Case'

(Friday, March 29, 1974) — Eight Ohio National Guardsmen were indicted today on federal charges stemming from the shooting deaths of four students at Kent State University. (The charges were later dismissed.)

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.”