Monthly Archives: March 2015

‘Going My Way’ wins Best Picture at 17th Academy Awards 70 years ago this hour (Mar 15 1945)

1940s, Movies 1940s, Popular Music 1940s


Video: '1944 Oscar Winners'

(Thursday, March 15, 1945, 8:00 p.m. PST) — Going My Way won seven Oscars tonight, including Best Motion Picture, Best Director (Leo McCarey) and Best Actor (Bing Crosby) at the 17th Academy Awards ceremony at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.

Ingrid Bergman won the Best Actress award for Gaslight. The ceremonies at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood were hosted by John Cromwell and Bob Hope.

Johnson urges Congress to insure African-American voting rights 50 years ago this hour (Mar 15 1965)

1960s, African-American Civil Rights


Video: 'Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise [on the Voting Rights Act], 3/15/65. MP506.'

(Monday, March 15, 1965, 9:02 p.m. EST; during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the rallying cry of African-Americans into millions of American homes tonight by pledging that “we shall overcome” what he called “a crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.” Continue reading Johnson urges Congress to insure African-American voting rights 50 years ago this hour (Mar 15 1965) →

Aristotle Onassis, 69, dies of pneumonia near Paris 40 years ago today (Mar 15 1975)

1970s, U.S. Presidents


Video: 'Aristotle Onassis' (Mar. 15, 1975, at 54:44)

(Saturday, March 15, 1975) — Aristotle Onassis, the Greek shipping magnate and husband of Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, died today at the American Hospital of Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, of respiratory failure, a complication of the myasthenia gravis. He was 69.