Video: 'Midnight Cowboy' trailer
(Sunday, May 25, 1969, 8:30 p.m. EDT) — A would-be gigolo and an ailing con artist form an unlikely friendship in Midnight Cowboy, an American buddy drama film that premiere tonight at The Coronet in New York City. Continue reading ‘Midnight Cowboy’ premieres in New York City 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 25 1969)
Video: 'SAM AND DAVE I thank you 1969 Soul Survivors Family WMV V9'
(Sunday, May 25, 1969, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT) — Sam & Dave performed “I Thank You” on tonight’s edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show live from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City. Continue reading Sam & Dave perform on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 25 1969)
Video: 'John & Yoko's Year of Peace (CBC TV) (2000)' (May 25, 1969, at 3:29-4:04)
(Sunday, May 25, 1969, 5:00 p.m. EDT) — John Lennon of The Beatles and his wife, Yoko Ono, and Ono’s daughter, Kyoko, flew from Freeport in the Bahamas to Toronto today as they searched for a suitable place to hold their second bed-in for peace. Continue reading Lennon, Ono fly from the Bahamas to Toronto 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 25 1969)
Video: 'Catastrophe at O'Hare - American Airlines Flight 191 - P3D'
(Friday, May 26, 1979, 3:03 p.m. CDT) — American Airlines Flight 191, en route to Los Angeles International Airport, lost an engine and crashed shortly after takeoff from O’Hare International Airport this afternoon, killing all 258 passengers and 13 crew aboard, along with two people on the ground. Continue reading 271 die as jet crashes on takeoff in Chicago in worst U.S. air disaster 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 25 1979)
Video: 'Alien' trailer
(Friday, May 25, 1979, 10:00 a.m. EDT) — The crew of a broken down space ship accidentally picks up a deadly alien life form in Alien, a science-fiction horror film that opened today at the B.S. Moss’ Criterion Theatre in the Theater District of Manhattan. Continue reading ‘Alien’ opens in New York City 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 25 1979)
