(Tuesday, August 3, 1971) — Ex-Beatle John Lennon posed for the cover of his new solo album Imagine today at his Tittenhurst home in Ascot, England.
Category Archives: 1970s
Astronauts leave Moon and dock safely
1971: Apollo 15 (NASA)
(Monday, August 2, 1971, 1:11 p.m. ET) — Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin rocketed from the moon today and linked up with their mother ship, a first step home with a 230-pound cargo of lunar secrets won from that battered vault of space history. The launch followed a third and final walk on the moon where Scott paid tribute to the 16th century Italian scientist Galileo Galilei and his discovery about falling objects in gravity fields.
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Spacemen find precious rock at crater
1971: Apollo 15 (NASA)
(Sunday, August 1, 1971) — Two Apollo 15 explorers radioed jubilantly today from a steep lunar mountainside that “we found what we came for,” a crystal-filled rock believed formed close to the time of the moon’s very creation. Continue reading Spacemen find precious rock at crater
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Ellsberg files burglary plan hatched
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Wednesday, July 28, 1971) — E. Howard Hunt, one of the Nixon White House “plumbers” — a secret team of operatives charged with fixing “leaks,” proposed to Nixon Special Counsel Charles Colson that the “plumbers” burglarize the office of psychiatrist Lewis Fielding to steal his files on Daniel Ellsberg, who had leaked the Pentagon Papers, to discredit him. Continue reading Ellsberg files burglary plan hatched
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Nixon demands lie detector tests
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Saturday, July 24, 1971, 12:36pm ET) — U.S. President Richard M. Nixon ordered lie detector tests for government officials following a series of national security leaks in The New York Times, including the Pentagon Papers.
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Leak on missile negotiations frustrates Nixon
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Friday, July 23, 1971) — The New York Times newspaper printed another leak today, giving away the Nixon administration’s fallback position in nuclear missile negotiations with the Soviets.
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Lennon, Ono continue filming ‘Imagine’
(Friday, July 23, 1971) — John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono today filmed some intimate scenes for their Imagine film at their Tittenhurst Park home in Ascot, England.
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Lennon, Ono attend book signing
(note: the video is intermixed with film from Friday, July 16, 1971, at another book signing. Lennon wore a solid dark coat on July 15, and a dark coat featuring small colored shapes on July 16)
(Thursday, July 15, 1971) — John Lennon and Yoko Ono attended a book-signing promotional appearance today at the London department store, Selfridges, for the re-publication of Yoko’s book, “Grapefruit.” It is shown over the song It’s So Hard in the documentary “Gimme Some Truth: The Making of John Lennon’s Imagine Album.”
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Plan to firebomb Brookings called off
Watergate. Part 2 of 30
(Sunday, July 11, 1971) — White House Counsel John Dean flew to San Clemente, California, today to tell Chief Domestic Advisor John Ehrlichman that a plan to firebomb the Brookings Institution, which was conducting a study of American involvement in Vietnam thought to be another “Pentagon Papers” covering the Nixon years, should be abandoned. Ehrlichman called the operation off.
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Jim Morrison: 4 hours to live
(Saturday, July 3, 1971, 1 a.m., Paris; 7 p.m. in New York on July 2) — With 4 hours to live, singer Jim Morrison, front man for the rock group The Doors, takes heroin with his girlfriend Pamela Courson in their apartment and watch home movies.
