Video: 'Kennedy Visits Costa Rica - clip 18656'
(Wednesday, March 20, 1963; during the Cold War) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy, winding up his three-day solidarity meeting presidents of six Central American republics, told an enthusiastic crowd of 10,000 at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose, Costa Rica, today that Cuba is an example of communism’s failure to provide for its people.
Video: 'The Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt'
(Monday, March 20, 1933, 9:27 a.m. local time) — The state of Florida electrocuted Giuseppe Zangara today for the shooting death of Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak at a Miami event attended by then President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, the presumed target, on February 15, 1933.
Cermak died March 6, 1933, at a Miami hospital at age 59, two days after FDR took office.
Video: '1952 Oscar Winners'
(Thursday, March 19, 1953, 10:30 p.m. EST) — The Greatest Show On Earth won two Oscars tonight at the 25th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. John Ford won Best Director for The Quiet Man, Gary Cooper won Best Actor for High Noon and Shirley Booth won Best Actress for Come Back, Little Sheba. Continue reading ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’ wins Best Picture at 25th Academy Awards 50 years ago this hour (1953)
(Thursday, March 18, 1993) — A report by a team of child abuse experts in Connecticut today cleared filmmaker Woody Allen of charges he molested his 7-year-old adopted daughter. Allen’s former girlfriend, actress Mia Farrow, had accused him of molesting the child.
(Monday, March 12, 1973; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, a freed prisoner of the Vietnam War, was joyously greeted today by his family on the tarmac at Travis Air Force Base in California in a scene captured in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Slava Veder of The Associated Press.
Video: 'David Day & Paul McCartney 1993'
(Saturday, March 13, 1993) — Former Beatle Paul McCartney was interviewed today by David Day backstage before his concert at Adelaide Oval in Adelaide, Australia, during his New World Tour.
Video: 'COMBAT! s.1 ep.23: "Survival" (1963)' (Mar. 12, 1963)
(Tuesday, March 12, 1963, 7:30 p.m. EST) — Lt. Hanley and the squad escape capture during an artillery barrage, but Sgt. Saunders is unknowingly left behind in the fiery chaos on tonight’s episode of the ABC-TV war drama series Combat!.
In 1997, the episode was ranked #74 on TV Guide‘s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
Video: 'A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (1923)'
(Saturday, March 12, 1923) — Inventor Lee De Forest demonstrated his sound-on-movie-film system, called “Phonofilm,” to the press today in New York.
Video: 'The onion field (1979). Crime scene'
(Wednesday, March 9, 1963, after 10 p.m. local time) — Two Los Angeles police officers, Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger, were disarmed and abducted by ex-convicts Gregory Powell and Jimmy Lee Smith during a traffic stop today in Hollywood. The officers were taken to an onion field near Bakersfield, California, where Campbell was shot to death while Hettinger managed to escape. Powell and Smith were sent to prison; the case was detailed in the book “The Onion Field” by Joseph Wambaugh.
Video: 'Midnight Special-Seals & Croft "Summer Breeze"'
(Saturday, March 10, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) — Seals & Crofts are among the performers on tonight’s episode of the late-night musical variety NBC series The Midnight Special hosted by Paul Williams.
