(click here to watch the full program, with Lindbergh @ 2:59:45)
(Friday, October 3, 1941) — Aviator Charles A. Lindbergh tonight told a rally in Fort Wayne, Indiana, sponsored by the America First Committee that U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the United States along a road which, “not many steps ahead,” might involve the suspension of the Congressional elections in 1942.
Video: 'The Last Picture Show' trailer
(Sunday, October 3, 1971) — The Last Picture Show, a drama about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford and his friend Duane Jackson, opened tonight in New York.
Directed by Peter Bogdanovich, the film stars Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd Ben Johnson, Eileen Brennan, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman and Randy Quaid.
(Friday, October 3, 1941, 10:33 a.m. EST) — German leader Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin today (one day after the Battle of Moscow began) that Russia had been “broken” and would “never rise again.”
Video: Clinton announcement (@ 3:55)
(Thursday, October 3, 1991) — Promising to restore the American dream for “the forgotten middle class,” Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas announced today that he was seeking the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination.
'The Pen' (clip)
(Wednesday, October 2, 1991, 9:30 p.m. ET) — Jerry and Elaine go to Florida to visit Jerry’s parents for the weekend and go scuba diving on tonight’s episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld.
Video: ‘(I Know) I’m Losing You’
(Saturday, October 2, 1971) — Every Picture Tells a Story by Rod Stewart became the #1 album on today’s Billboard 200 chart for the first of four weeks (October 2/9/16/23, 1971).
It would on go to be ranked #172 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Video: 'Mr. Ed' theme
(Sunday, October 1, 1961, 6:30 p.m. EDT) — Mister Ed, a situation comedy TV series starring Alan Young as an eccentric and enormously klutzy yet friendly architect named Wilbur Post whose horse Mister Ed (“played” by gelding Bamboo Harvester and voiced by Allan Lane) could talk, debuted tonight on network television (on CBS; it had run in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961).
Video: ‘Thor’ clip
(Sunday, September 30, 2001, 10:30 p.m. ET) — Larry seeks revenge on pro wrestler Thor Olson, who he believes slashed his tire after an argument on the road on tonight’s episode of the HBO comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Video: 'The Shelter' (part 1)
(Friday, September 29, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading ‘The Shelter’ debuts on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour
Video: Lord Beaverbrook arrives in Moscow @ 8:14
(Monday, September 29, 1941) — The First Moscow Conference opened today as American Averell Harriman and Lord Beaverbrook representing the United Kingdom met with Joseph Stalin to give assurances that those two leading Allies of World War II would aid and support the Soviet Union in the common fight against Nazi Germany.
