Video: 'The Virginian Opening Theme Season One'
(Wednesday, September 19, 1962, 7:30 p.m. EDT) — The Western television series The Virginian debuted tonight on NBC starring Lee J. Cobb, Doug McClure, Gary Clarke and James Drury (click here to watch a clip from the first episode, The Executioners).
(Friday, September 18, 1992) — A promotional video for Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr’s Don’t Go Where the Road Don’t Go, a popular track from his album Time Takes Time, was mastered today.
Video: Sept. 18, 1952 (at 2:58)
(Thursday, September 18, 1952, during the 1952 U.S. presidential campaign) — The New York Post today ran the front-page headline: “Secret Nixon Fund,” with a detailed story charging that wealthy Californians had given $18,235 to a secret campaign fund for GOP vice presidential nominee Richard Nixon in return for political favors.
While the “secret fund” was perfectly legal, the story left the impression that Nixon was on the take; being paid to do the bidding of special interests.
Video: Sept. 18, 1942 (at 6:14)
(Friday, September 18, 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — Wilhelm Hoffman, a soldier in the 267th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division of the German 6th Army who chronicled the Battle of Stalingrad in his journal, wrote today:
“Fighting is going on inside the elevator. The Russians inside are condemned men. The battalion commander says, ‘The commissars have ordered those men to die in the elevator.’ If all the buildings of Stalingrad are defended like this, then none of our soldiers will get back to Germany.”
Video: Sept. 18, 1862 (at 56:42)
(Thursday, September 18, 1862, part of the Maryland Campaign during the American Civil War) — On the day after the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest battle day in U.S. history, Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s army prepared to defend against a Federal assault that never came.
After an improvised truce for both sides to recover and exchange their wounded, Lee’s forces began withdrawing across the Potomac in the evening to return to Virginia.
Video: Sept. 17, 1862 (part three at 52:20)
(Wednesday, September 17, 1862, 12:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., local time, part of the Maryland Campaign during the American Civil War) — The third of three battles in the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest battle day in U.S. history (located near Maryland’s Antietam Creek at Sharpsburg), began this afternoon as Union Gen. Ambrose Burnside attacked Gen. James Longstreet’s troops across a stone bridge that came to bear Burnside’s name. Continue reading Confederate, Union soldiers clash in final part of bloodiest one-day battle in American history 150 years ago this hour (1862)
Video: Sept. 17, 1862 (second part at 49:00)
(Wednesday, September 17, 1862, 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. local time, part of the Maryland Campaign during the American Civil War) — The second of three battles in the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest battle day in U.S. history (located near Maryland’s Antietam Creek at Sharpsburg), began this morning as Union troops under Gen. Edwin Sumner inflicted devastating casualties on the Confederates along a sunken road that became known as “Bloody Lane.”
This fighting alone left about 5,600 casualties (killed/wounded/captured/missing) out of 22,717 for the entire day.
(Saturday, September 16, 1972, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — Archie gets fed up with a television editorial when this week’s issue concerns gun control on tonight’s season three premiere episode of the CBS-TV sitcom All In The Family.
Video: Sept. 16, 1942 (at 5:59)
(Wednesday, September 16, 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — Wilhelm Hoffman, a soldier in the 267th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division of the German 6th Army who chronicled the Battle of Stalingrad in his journal, wrote today:
Our battalion, plus tanks, is attacking the [grain] elevator, from which smoke is pouring – the grain in it is burning, the Russians seem to have set it light themselves. Barbarism . . . The elevator is occupied not by men, but by devils that no flames or bullets can destroy . . .
Video: Sept. 16, 1862 (at 43:40)
(Tuesday, September 16, 1862, during the American Civil War) — On the eve of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, Union Capt. Edward Hastings Ripley wrote about conditions near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
