Video: 'Radio News 8-29-1964: Philadelphia Riot, Beatles, Presidential Campaign, Quebec separatists' (reference to riot at 1:53)
(Friday, August 28, 1964, 9:30 p.m. EDT) — Two days of race-related rioting erupted in North Philadelphia tonight over a false rumor that white police officers had beaten to death a pregnant black woman.
Video: 'Mary Poppins' (trailer)
(Thursday, August 27, 1964) — Mary Poppins, a musical fantasy film about a magical nanny who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family’s dynamic, premiered today at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film starred Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson and Glynis Johns.
Video: 'Hubert H. Humphrey 1964 Vice Presidential Acceptance Speech'
(Thursday, August 27, 1964, evening EDT) — In a speech accepting the Democratic nomination for vice president at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey lauded President Lyndon Johnson tonight as a wise and courageous champion of all the people and called Senator Barry Goldwater an impetuous “temporary spokesman” for the Republican party.
Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (Aug. 27, 1964, at 26:32)
(Thursday, August 27, 1964; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — The ruling military revolutionary council elected Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh and two other top generals today to run South Vietnam for the next two months amid bloody new riots in Saigon.
Video: 'Pres. Johnson Names Vice-President At Democratic Convention (1964)' (Aug. 26, 1964, at 0:00-2:48)
(Wednesday, August 26, 1964, evening EDT) — Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas, the man who took over the presidency last Nov. 22 in the shattering hour of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, was nominated by acclamation for a term of his own tonight by the 1964 Democratic National Convention meeting at the Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Continue reading Democrats nominate Johnson-Humphrey ticket 130 years ago tonight (Aug 26 1964)
(Tuesday, August 25, 1964) — Having been eliminated as President Lyndon Johnson’s running mate, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the recently assassinated president, John F. Kennedy, formally entered the race for the U.S. Senate today as a Democrat from New York. The Republican opposition immediately labeled Kennedy “the carpetbagger candidate.”
Video: 'Ian Fleming - The CBC Interview (Legendado)'
(Wednesday, August 12, 1964) — Author Ian Fleming, 56, the creator of James Bond, died early this morning in Canterbury, Kent, England, after suffering a heart attack.
Video: 'The Beach Boys Today! (Full Album HQ Stereo Remaster) (1965) - Beach Boys' ('When I Grow Up' at 6:51)
(Monday, August 10, 1964, 11:00 p.m. PDT) — The Beach Boys overdubbed vocals and an instrumental insert to the Aug. 5, 1964, instrumental master of “When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)” today at United Western Recorders studio in Los Angeles to completing the A-side of their next single.
Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (Aug. 7, 1964, at 16:08)
(Friday, August 7, 1964; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — The House of Representatives and the Senate approved today the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces click here watch a clip from ‘The Presidents: LBJ’ at 1:38:48).
Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - America's Enemy [5/11]' (Alvarez at 15:07)
(Wednesday, August 5, 1964; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. Navy pilot Everett Alvarez Jr. became the first American flier to be shot down and captured by North Vietnam today; he was held prisoner until February 1973.
