Video: 'Brown Sugar ' (June 25, 1972, evening)
(Sunday, June 25, 1972, evening) — Bob Freeze and Steve Gebhardt of Butterfly Films concluded filming for Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones, a concert movie featuring the British rock band The Rolling Stones, tonight at Will Rogers Auditorium in Fort Worth, Texas. Continue reading Filming of Rolling Stones concert movie concludes 40 years ago tonight (1972)
Video: 'Blade Runner' trailer
(Friday, June 25, 1982) — Blade Runner, a science fiction film about an ex-cop who comes out of retirement in order to hunt down androids who are being reproduced for purpose of slavery, opened today in U.S. theaters.
Directed by Ridley Scott, the film stars Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos and Daryl Hannah.
Video: 'The Thing' trailer
(Friday, June 25, 1982) — The Thing, a science fiction horror film about scientists in the Antarctic who are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills, opened today in U.S. theaters.
Directed by John Carpenter, the film stars Kurt Russell.
Video: 'Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl' trailer
(Friday, June 25, 1982) — Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl, a concert film in which the Monty Python team perform many of their greatest sketches at the Hollywood Bowl, opened today in U.S. theaters.
Directed by Terry Hughes and Ian MacNaughton, the film stars Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland and Neil Innes.
Video: Mrs. Mitchell telephones Thomas (at 7:00)
(Sunday, June 25, 1972) — Eight days after the Watergate break-in, Martha Mitchell, wife of John Mitchell, who was head of Nixon’s re-election campaign, called UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas again (see June 22) and asserts that she is a political prisoner in her own home. Continue reading Mitchell’s wife claims she’s a ‘political prisoner’ 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: STS-50 launch and landing
(Thursday, June 25, 1992, 12:12:23 p.m. EDT) — The space shuttle Columbia broke through the clouds and roared into orbit today on a marathon 13-day mission that is expected to lead to even longer trips and, eventually, full-time stays in space.
Video: 'Air Crash Investigation - Falling From The Sky (S04E02)'
(Thursday, June 24, 1982, 9:40 a.m. EDT) — A British Airways Boeing 747 with 262 people aboard today experienced the failure of all four engines at an altitude of 37,000 feet while passing through volcanic ash generated by Mount Galunggung in Indonesia. By the time the crew was able to restart the engines, the jumbo jet had glided down to 12,000 feet before making a safe emergency landing in Jakarta.
(Wednesday, June 23, 1982) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney today completed filming of a promotional video for his single Take It Away, released two days ago in the U.S. and Britain.
The video, shot at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, England, features former Beatles’ drummer Ringo Starr and long-time producer George Martin, both of whom played on the track, as well as actor John Hurt.
Video: June 22, 1972 (at 8:11)
(Thursday, June 22, 1972) — Five days after the Watergate break-in, Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray told White House Counsel John Dean in a private meeting late this evening that he believes Watergate is “a CIA thing,” having traced the burglars’ money to Mexico.
Video: Mrs. Mitchell telephones Thomas (at 5:38)
(Thursday, June 22, 1972) — Five days after the Watergate break-in, Martha Mitchell, wife of John Mitchell, who was head of Nixon’s re-election campaign, telephoned UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas from a villa in Newport Beach, California, to say she had told her husband she would “leave him unless he gets out of the campaign.”
I’m sick and tired of politics. Politics is a dirty business,” Mitchell said. Before the phone was apparently yanked out of the wall, she yells, “You get away. Just get away.”
