Video: 'Los Angeles Airways Helicopter Flight 841 Crashes--Disneyland Deaths And Injuries--1960's--TMS-2127'

(Wednesday, May 22, 1968, 5:50 p.m. PDT) — Los Angeles Airways Flight 841, a regularly scheduled passenger flight from Disneyland Heliport in Anaheim, California, to Los Angeles International Airport, crashed onto a dairy farm and burst into flames today in the city of Paramount, California, killing all 23 persons aboard, including a group of nine vacationers from Ohio. Continue reading Copter crash kills 23 in California 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 22 1968) →

Video: 'Serial Killers 4/25 - David Berkowitz [Son of Sam]' (May 22, 1978, at 36:15)

(Monday, May 22, 1978) — David Berkowitz, the lonely postal worker who had pleaded guilty on May 8, 1978, to all six “Son of Sam” murders in a year-long reign of terror in New York City with his .44 caliber revolver, kicked and bit guards who half-dragged him into court for sentencing today, called his final victim “a whore” and told her anguished mother, “I’d kill her again.” Continue reading ‘Son of Sam’ killer Berkowitz goes Berserk in court 40 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 22 1978) →