Video: 'Funeral of Former President Herbert Hoover (1964)'
(Wednesday, October 22, 1964, 4:33 p.m. EDT) — Led by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and his Republican challenger Senator Barry Goldwater, New York City bade goodbye to former President Herbert Hoover in a solemn funeral service today. Hoover had died Oct. 20, 1964, at the age of 90.
Video: 'Roosevelt In New York Aka Presidential Campaign (1944)'
(Saturday, October 21, 1944, during World War II) — As heavy rain and autumn winds pelted the five boroughs, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, approaching an election for an historic fourth term, toured through fifty-one miles of New York City streets today in a large motorcade.
With his wife Eleanor at his side, the aging president defied terrible weather to greet his fellow Americans from an open car (and sometimes without a hat).
Video: 'Lyndon B. Johnson-Report to the Nation on Events in China and the USSR (October 18, 1964)'
(Sunday, October 18, 1964, 8:30 p.m. EDT; during the Cold War) — U.S. President Lyndon Johnson told the people of the United States tonight that despite the Chinese Communists’ nuclear explosion and the change of Government in the Soviet Union, “the key to peace is to be found in the strength and the good sense of the United States” (click here to watch the full video).
(Wednesday, October 14, 1964, 10:30 p.m. EDT) — Walter W. Jenkins resigned tonight as a special assistant to U.S. President Lyndon Johnson after it became known that he had been arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct involving “indecent gestures.” Continue reading Johnson aide Walter Jenkins resigns following arrest 50 years ago this hour (Oct 14 1964)
Video: 'Eleanor Roosevelt Biography'
(Saturday, October 11, 1884) — Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who served from 1933 to 1945) and the niece of President Theodore Roosevelt (who served from 1901 to 1909), was born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt today at 56 West 37th Street in New York City.
Video: 'FDR Excerpt Sept 30, 1934'
(Sunday, September 30, 1934, 10:00 p.m. EST) — In a radio speech to the nation tonight, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt called for an armistice between capital and labor while the newly reorganized NRA evolves legislation calculated permanently to safeguard the rights of each (click here for complete audio and transcript of the speech).
Video: 'September 24, 1964 - Warren Commission report delivered to President Lyndon B. Johnson'
(Thursday, September 24, 1964, 11:00 a.m. EDT) — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson received from the hands of Chief Justice Earl Warren today a presentation copy of the Warren Commission‘s report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
The report itself would not be released to the public until Sunday, Sept. 27, 1964, at 6:30 p.m. EDT.
Video: 'Photo Op, Second Quebec Conference, Canada, 09/12/1944 (full)'
(Tuesday, September 12, 1944; during World War II) — The Second Quebec Conference, a high-level military conference, opened today with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in attendance. Continue reading FDR, Churchill attend Second Quebec Conference 70 years ago today (Sep 12 1944)
Video: 'Bush Interview with David Frost Concerning Sept. 2, 1944'
(Saturday, September 2, 1944; during the Pacific War of World War II) — Navy pilot Lt. (jg) George Herbert Walker Bush was shot down by Japanese forces today as he completed a bombing run over the Bonin Islands. Bush was rescued by the crew of the submarine USS Finback; his two crew members, however, died.
(Monday, August 30, 1954) — U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower today signed the controversial Atomic Energy Act of 1954, which opens the door to private initiative in putting nuclear power to work.
