Video: 'LAWRENCE WELK AND HIS CHAMPAGNE MUSIC - 1955'
(Saturday, July 2, 1955, 9:00-10:00 p.m. EDT) — The Lawrence Welk Show, hosted by big band leader Lawrence Welk, premiered tonight on ABC-TV under its original title The Dodge Dancing Party. The musical variety show ran for 27 years, both on the network and in syndication.
Video: 'August 25, 1955 - Senator Lyndon B. Johnson before flying to Texas to recuperate from heart attack.'
(Saturday, July 2, 1955) — Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, a 60-cigarette-per-day smoker, suffered a near-fatal heart attack today at age 46 and will be unable to return to active duty at this Congressional session (click here for a clip reporting on today’s event on “American Experience: LBJ” at 42:33).
Video: 'BOB HOPE on The Ed Sullivan Show'
(Sunday, June 26, 1955, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EDT) — Comedian Bob Hope performed “on tonight’s live edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show from CBS Studio No. 50 in New York City. Continue reading Bob Hope performs on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ 60 years ago this hour (June 26 1955)
Video: 'Johnny Cash - Hey Porter'
(Tuesday, June 21, 1955) — Johnny Cash today released his first single “Hey, Porter,” a song about his journey home from a four year stint in the United States Air Force.
Video: 'Lady and the Tramp' trailer
(Thursday, June 16, 1955) — Lady and the Tramp, an animated romantic musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney about the adventures of an American Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a refined, upper-middle-class family, and a male stray mutt named Tramp, premiered today at the State-Lake theater in Chicago.
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske, the film starred Peggy Lee, Barbara Luddy, Larry Roberts, Verna Felton, Bill Thompson and Bill Baucom.
Video: 'Bombing and Coup 1955 Argentina'
(Thursday, June 16, 1955, 12:40 p.m. ART) — Members of Argentina’s military bombarded the Plaza de Mayo today in Buenos Aires in a failed attempt to assassinate President Juan Domingo Peron and his Cabinet, causing hundreds of civilian deaths, the same day Peron was excommunicated by Pope Pius XII for expelling two bishops from his country.
Video: '1956 THE $64,000 QUESTION QUIZ TV SHOW'
(Tuesday, June 7, 1955, 10:00 p.m. EDT) — The television version of the quiz show The $64,000 Question premiered tonight on CBS, sponsored by cosmetics maker Revlon and originating live from CBS-TV Studio 52 in New York (later the disco-theater Studio 54).
The first contestant on the show was Thelma Farrell Bennett, a housewife from Trenton, New Jersey, who failed to make it to the first plateau but won a 1955 Cadillac convertible.
Video: '"The Ballad of Barbara Graham" - Val Norman'
(Friday, June 3, 1955, 11:28 a.m. PDT) — Convicted murderer Barbara Graham, 31, was executed today in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison in California, as were two accomplices, Jack Santo and Emmett Perkins, for the 1953 slaying of Mabel Monahan.
Video: 'Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio Attend The Seven Year Itch Premiere, 1955'
(Wednesday, June 1, 1955) — The Seven Year Itch, a romantic drama film about a married man whose wife is on vacation and falls for the blonde bombshell upstairs, premiered tonight at Loew’s State Theatre in New York City. Continue reading ‘The Seven Year Itch’ premieres in New York City 60 years ago tonight (June 1 1955)
Video: ‘May 23, 1955 – Senator John F. Kennedy returns to the Senate’
(Monday, May 23, 1955) — Senator John F. Kennedy returned to duty today from a seven-month absence made necessary by major back surgery.
