Robert Francis Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968)
Robert Kennedy, brother of John F. Kennedy, served as the 64th
United States attorney general from January 1961 to September
1964, and as a U.S. senator from New York from January 1965
until his assassination, when he was running for the Democratic
presidential nomination.
The three brothers, Robert, Edward & John Kennedy.
Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis went on trial in Nuremberg,
Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II began
on this day.
The Nuremberg trials were conducted by an international
tribunal made up of representatives from the United States,
the Soviet Union, France and Great Britain.
It was the first trial of its kind in history, and the defendants
faced charges ranging from crimes against peace, to crimes
of war, to crimes against humanity.
Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, the British member, presided
over the proceedings, which lasted 10 months and consisted
of 216 court sessions.
Geoffrey Lawrence
(2 December 1880 – 28 August 1971
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (left center) and Francis Biddle (right) talking at the opening session of the Nuremberg trials.
Herman Goering
The defendants at the Nuremberg trials. Front row (L-R): Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Back row (L-R):
Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach and Fritz Sauckel.
The Nuremberg court room as it looks today.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a film about a group of
patients at a mental institution, opened in theaters. Directed
by Milos Forman and based on a 1962 novel of the same
name by Ken Kesey, the film starred Jack Nicholson and
was co-produced by the actor Michael Douglas.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest went on to become the
first film in four decades to win in all five of the major
Academy Award categories: Best Actor (Nicholson),
Best Actress (Louise Fletcher, who played Nurse Ratched),
Best Director, Best Screenplay (Adapted) and Best Picture.
Filming was on location in Salem, Oregon and surrounding
area, and in Depoe Bay on the north Oregon coast.
The producers shot the film in the Oregon State Hospital in
Salem.
Louise Fletcher (1934 – 2022) & Jack Nicholson (87).
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Taxi Driver (1974
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is a actress and filmmaker who
has received numerous accolades, including two Academy
Awards, three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards
and a Primetime Emmy Award. She was also honored with
the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2013 and the
Honorary Palme d’Or in 2021.
Foster began her professional career as a child model and
later gained recognition as a teen idol through various
Disney films.
Jodie Foster’s early film work includes the Raquel Welch
vehicle Kansas City Bomber (1972) filmed in Portland,
Oregon. Foster played Rita in her second appearance
in a feature film.
1988
1990
Foster made her directorial debut
with this 1991 film.
2005
2007
On November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a military cemetery
at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War,
President Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most
memorable speeches in American history. In fewer than 275
words, Lincoln brilliantly and movingly reminded a war-weary
public why the Union had to fight, and win, the Civil War.
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought some four months earlier,
was one of the single bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Reception of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address was initially mixed,
divided strictly along partisan lines. Nevertheless, the “little
speech,” as he later called it, is thought by many today to be
the most eloquent articulation of the democratic vision ever
written.
