Video: 14th Grammy Awards (Album of the Year)
(Tuesday, March 14, 1972) — Carole King won the Album of the Year for Tapestry, Record of the Year for It’s Too Late and Song of the Year for You’ve Got A Friend at the 14th Grammy Awards at Felt Forum in New York City. She also won a fourth Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female for Tapestry. Continue reading Carole King tops Grammy winners 40 years ago tonight (1972)
(Saturday, March 4, 1972, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Tabitha has to take a test to prove her intelligence and is very nervous on tonight’s episode of the ABC-TV situation comedy series Bewitched.
(Wednesday, March 1, 1972, 10:00 p.m. ET) — A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice–an earwig–in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV anthology series Night Gallery.
(Wednesday, March 1, 8:00 p.m. ET) — Malloy and Reed try to curb a chronic street racing problem by befriending the club leaders and working with a racing promoter to open a legitimate drag strip on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV police drama Adam-12.
Video: Shanghai Communique comes together (at 3:44)
(Sunday, February 27, 1972, 9:12 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Richard M. Nixon departed China this morning (10:12 a.m. local time, Feb. 28, 1972) with a goodbye wave from a solemn Premier Chou En-lai in his gray tunic. Nixon and his wife Pat spent a week in China, an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
Video: Shanghai Communique comes together (at 0:13)
(Sunday, February 27, 1972) — U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai issued the Shanghai Communique at the conclusion of Nixon’s historic visit to China, a step toward the eventual normalization of relations between the two countries.
Video: Nixon visits Great Wall of China (at 1:47)
(Thursday, February 24, 1972) — U.S. President Richard M. Nixon visited the Great Wall of China today and called for an end to “walls of any kind between peoples.”
Video: Death penalty invalidated (at 9:14)
(Friday, February 18, 1972) — The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson invalidated the state’s death penalty today and commuted the sentences of all death row inmates, including members of the Charles Manson family, to life imprisonment.
(Wednesday, February 16, 1972, 10:00 p.m. ET) — The wife of an elderly farmer who refuses to die decides to force nature’s hand with the help of an old crone skilled in the black arts on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV anthology series Night Gallery.
(Wednesday, February 16, 8:00 p.m. ET) — On temporary assignment at LAX, Reed and Malloy have to save a stewardess who is taken hostage inside a lounge by a man desperately trying to get the attention of a television producer on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV police drama Adam-12.
