Daily Archives: October 1, 2014

‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ released in U.S. 40 years ago today (Oct 1 1974)

1970s, Movies 1970s


Video: 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' trailer

(Tuesday, October 1, 1974) — The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a slasher film about five friends visiting their grandfather’s house in the country who are hunted and terrorized by a chain-saw wielding killer and his family of grave-robbing cannibals, was released today in the U.S.

Directed by Tobe Hooper, the film starred Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen and Teri McMinn.

Free Speech Movement begins at University of California, Berkeley 50 years ago today (Oct 1 1964)

1960s


Video: 'Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley (1964) - from THE EDUCATION ARCHIVE'

(Thursday, October 1, 1964) — The Free Speech Movement (FSM) began at the University of California, Berkeley, today as students spontaneously protested the arrest of Berkeley alumnus Jack Weinberg, who’d refused to identify himself to campus police as he sat behind a table promoting the Congress of Racial Equality.