Video: 'Bush Interview with David Frost Concerning Sept. 2, 1944'
(Saturday, September 2, 1944; during the Pacific War of World War II) — Navy pilot Lt. (jg) George Herbert Walker Bush was shot down by Japanese forces today as he completed a bombing run over the Bonin Islands. Bush was rescued by the crew of the submarine USS Finback; his two crew members, however, died.
Video: CHENEY [2004 Republican National Convention] part 1/4
(Wednesday, September 1, 2004, evening EDT) — Declaring that the nation’s fundamental security was at stake in the presidential election, Vice President Dick Cheney said tonight that Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry had repeatedly “made the wrong call” on critical foreign policy challenges and failed to appreciate the severity of the threat the nation faced after the Sept. 11 attacks. Continue reading Cheney, GOP mount vigorous assault on Kerry 10 years ago tonight (Sep 1 2004)
Video: 'Weather History: The Great Hinckley Fire of 1894'
(Saturday, September 1, 1894, 3:00 p.m. CDT) — The Great Hinckley Fire destroyed Hinckley, Minnesota, and five other communities today, killing more than 400 people including Thomas P. “Boston” Corbett, the Union soldier who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Wilkes Booth.
Video: 'Arsenic and Old Lace' (trailer)
(Friday, September 1, 1944) — Arsenic and Old Lace, a dark comedy film about a young man who is about to be married and discovers the two aunts who raised him have been poisoning lonely old men, premiered today at the Strand in New York City.
Directed by Frank Capra, the film starred Cary Grant.
Video: 'Hurricane Carol 1954'
(Tuesday, August 31, 1954) — Hurricane Carol hit the northeastern Atlantic states today. Connecticut, Rhode Island and part of Massachusetts bore the brunt of the storm, which resulted in 72 deaths.
(Monday, August 30, 1954) — U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower today signed the controversial Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which opens the door to private initiative in putting nuclear power to work.
Video: 'parade 28th inf.div. Paris.mpg' (no audio)
(Tuesday, August 29, 1944; during the Liberation of Paris, part of Operation Overlord, World War II) — 15,000 American troops of the 28th Infantry Division marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris today as the French capital continued to celebrate its liberation from the Nazis.
Video: 'Radio News 8-29-1964: Philadelphia Riot, Beatles, Presidential Campaign, Quebec separatists' (reference to riot at 1:53)
(Friday, August 28, 1964, 9:30 p.m. EDT) — Two days of race-related rioting erupted in North Philadelphia tonight over a false rumor that white police officers had beaten to death a pregnant black woman.
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.
