Video: 'Radio News Coverage: Skylab 3 Part 6' (splashdown coverage at 35:37)
(Friday, February 8, 11:16:53 a.m. EDT; part of NASA’s Skylab program) — The last three-man crew of the Skylab space station, consisting of Jerry Carr, Bill Pogue and Edward Gibson, returned to Earth today after spending 84 days in space, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean some 176 miles southwest of San Diego. Skylab remained in orbit another five years before plunging to its destruction in 1979.
Video: 'Richard Nixon: State of the Union Address - Speech to the U.S. Congress (January, 27 1974)'
(Wednesday, January 30, 1984, 9:00 p.m. EST) — Declaring that “one year of Watergate is enough,” U.S. President Richard Nixon challenged Congress tonight in his State of the Union address to focus instead on solving the energy crisis and inflation. Continue reading Nixon vows to stay on job in State of Union address 40 years ago this hour (Jan 30 1974)
Video: 'The Six Million Dollar Man--Population Zero [Jan. 18, 1974]'
(Friday, January 18, 1974, 8:30 p.m. EST) — The Six Million Dollar Man, a television show about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for a fictional government office known as OSI, debuted tonight as a regular series on ABC-TV following three television movies that aired in 1973. It starred Lee Majors, Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks.
Video: 'Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 's 1 - 7 audio/bk'
(Friday, December 28, 1973) — The Gulag Archipelago, a three-volume book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about the Soviet forced labor camp system, was published today by the distinguished French publishing house Seuil.
Video: 'The Sting' trailer
(Tuesday, December 25, 1973, Christmas Day) — The Sting, a caper film involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters to con a mob boss, premiered today in both New York and Los Angeles.
Directed by George Roy Hill, the film starred Paul Newman, Robert Redford and Robert Shaw.
Video: 'Magnum Force' trailer
(Thursday, December 20, 1973) — Magnum Force, a police thriller film about a maverick San Francisco police detective who hunts down a band of vigilante cops, opened today in the Netherlands (it opened in the U.S. five days later).
Directed by Ted Post, the film was the second to feature Clint Eastwood as maverick cop Harry Callahan. It also starred Hal Holbrook, Mitchell Ryan, David Soul, Felton Perry, Robert Urich and
Tim Matheson.
Video: 'Papillon' trailer
(Sunday, December 16, 1973) — Papillon, a prison film about two Devil’s Island prisoners who devote all of their time to hatching escape plans, was released today in U.S. theaters.
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, the film starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman.
Video: 'Serpico' trailer
(Wednesday, December 5, 1973) — Serpico, a crime film about an honest New York cop who blew the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him, was released today in U.S. theaters.
Directed by Sidney Lumet, the film starred Al Pacino.
Video: 'Who Erased 18 Minutes of Nixon Watergate Tapes?'
(Monday, November 26, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. President Richard Nixon’s personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court today that she’d accidentally caused part of the 18-1/2-minute gap in a key Watergate tape.
Video: 'Watergate: The 18 ½ Minute Gap and Haldeman's Notes'
(Wednesday, November 21, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. President Richard Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, today revealed the existence of an 18-1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate. It appears in a recording made on June 20, 1972, as Nixon discussed the break-in at the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate complex for the first time with his chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman. Continue reading Gap on key Watergate tape revealed 40 hours ago today (1973)
