Video: 'Mary Poppins' (trailer)
(Thursday, August 27, 1964) — Mary Poppins, a musical fantasy film about a magical nanny who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family’s dynamic, premiered today at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film starred Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson and Glynis Johns.
Video: 'Hubert H. Humphrey 1964 Vice Presidential Acceptance Speech'
(Thursday, August 27, 1964, evening EDT) — In a speech accepting the Democratic nomination for vice president at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey lauded President Lyndon Johnson tonight as a wise and courageous champion of all the people and called Senator Barry Goldwater an impetuous “temporary spokesman” for the Republican party.
Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (Aug. 27, 1964, at 26:32)
(Thursday, August 27, 1964; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — The ruling military revolutionary council elected Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh and two other top generals today to run South Vietnam for the next two months amid bloody new riots in Saigon.
