Video: 'Paul McCartney interview with Lesley Ash - THE TUBE (1983)'
(Friday, December 16, 1983, 5:31 p.m. GMT) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was interviewed by Leslie Ash on tonight’s edition of The Tube on Channel 4. Continue reading Paul McCartney interviewed on ‘The Tube’ 30 years ago this hour (12/16/1983)
Video: 'Madame Curie' (trailer)
(Thursday, December 15, 1943) — Madame Curie, a biographical film that tells the story of Polish-French physicist Marie Curie, premiered today in Los Angeles. Continue reading ‘Madame Curie’ premieres in Los Angeles 70 years ago today (12/15/1943)
Video: 'Silkwood' trailer
(Wednesday, December 14, 1983) — Silkwood, a drama film about a labor union activist who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked, opened today at Loew’s Tower East in New York City. Continue reading ‘Silkwood’ opens in U.S. theaters 30 years ago today (12/14/1983)
Video: 'MZEE JOMO KENYATTA IN MOMBASA, KENYA DEC 12TH, 1963'
(Thursday, December 12, 1963) — Nearly 100,000 Africans whistled, sang and cheered today as Kenya became Africa’s 35th independent nation.
Video: 'Sudden Impact' trailer
(Thursday, December 8, 1983) — Sudden Impact, a thriller about a rape victim who exacts revenge on her aggressors in the fourth film in the Dirty Harry series, premiered today in New York City. Continue reading ‘Sudden Impact’ premieres in New York City 30 years ago today (1983)
Video: 'Serpico' trailer
(Wednesday, December 5, 1973) — Serpico, a crime film about an honest New York cop who blew the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him, was released today in U.S. theaters.
Directed by Sidney Lumet, the film starred Al Pacino.
Video: 'Who Erased 18 Minutes of Nixon Watergate Tapes?'
(Monday, November 26, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court today that she’d accidentally caused part of the 18-1/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.
Video: 'Rohna Film Preview'
(Friday, November 26, 1943; during World War II) — The HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying American soldiers, was hit today by a German missile and sank in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria. 1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 Americans, constituting the largest loss of U.S. troops at sea in a single incident.
Video: 'Civil War Missionary Ridge Radio Drama'
(Wednesday, November 25, 1863, 6 p.m. local time; during the Battle of Missionary Ridge, part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War) — Following the Union victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain yesterday, Union forces under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg.
Video: 'John F. Kennedy Funeral November 25, 1963' (enternal flame lit at 42:09)
(Monday, November 25, 1963, 3:02 p.m. EST) — Jacqueline Kennedy, President Kennedy’s widow today lit the eternal flame, a presidential memorial at the gravesite of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery. The president’s brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy, symbolically lit the flame after her. Continue reading President Kennedy’s widow lights eternal flame 50 years ago this hour (1963)
