Video: 'Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds/You are My Sunshine//?'
(Monday, September 26, 1955, evening EDT) — Actress Debbie Reynolds, 23, and singer Eddie Fisher, 26, were married tonight in a civil ceremony at Grossinger’s resort in the Catskills, New York, following a 15-month romance.
Video: 'Eisenhower Has a Heart Attack 1955'
(Saturday, September 24, 1955, 2:00 a.m. MST) — U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a serious heart attack early this morning while on vacation in Denver. He would recover after spending six weeks in the hospital (click here to watch a clip of this from “American Experience: Nixon” at 39:44).
Video: 'The Murder Of Emmett Till - Documetary' (Sept. 23, 1955, at 45:58)
(Friday, September 23, 1955, at 3:43 p.m. local time) — Two Mississippi white men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, accused of murdering 14-year-old Chicago African-American Emmett Louis Till after he had supposedly whistled at a white woman were acquitted today in Sumner, Mississippi.
A jury of twelve white neighbors of the defendants reached the verdict after one hour and five minutes of deliberations. The two men later admitted to the crime in an interview with Look magazine.
Video: 'The Phil Silvers Show Season 1 Episode 1 New Recruits'
(Tuesday, September 20, 1955, 8:30-9:00 p.m. EDT) — The Phil Silvers Show (originally titled You’ll Never Get Rich ), a sitcom television series starring Phil Silvers, debuted tonight on CBS-TV.
Video: 'Cheyenne - 01x01 - Mountain Fortress'
(Tuesday, September 20, 1955, 7:30-8:30 p.m. EDT) — Cheyenne, an American western television series starring Clint Walker, premiered tonight on ABC-TV.
Video: 'Selected Originals - Peron Falls (1955)'
(Monday, September 19, 1955) — President Juan Peron of Argentina was ousted today after a revolt by the army and navy, fleeing on the gunboat ARP Paraguay up the Parana River. Peron was replaced by a four-man junta of army generals.
Video: '1955 HITS ARCHIVE: Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford (a #1 record'
(Saturday, September 17, 1955) — Tennessee Ernie Ford recorded his smash hit “Sixteen Tons” today at Capitol’s Melrose Avenue Studios in Hollywood.
Video: 'Little Richard - Tutti Frutti'
(Wednesday, September 14, 1955) — “Little Richard” Penniman recorded “Tutti Frutti” today at J & M Studio in New Orleans for Specialty Records. It would become Richard’s first major hit.
Video: 'Phil Silvers in Toast Of The Town (1955)'
(Sunday, September 11, 1955, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EST) — Phil Silvers performed a sketch with the cast of You’ll Never Get Rich (which premiered as a series on CBS-TV nine days later) on tonight’s live edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show from CBS Studio No. 50 in New York City.
Video: 'Gunsmoke 1x01 Matt Gets It'
(Saturday, September 10, 1955, 10:00 p.m. EDT ) — U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon of Dodge City must deal with fast trigger-happy outlaw Dan Grat on tonight’s premiere of the long-running TV Western series Gunsmoke on CBS.
