The above photo shows radio station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan going on the air August
20, 1920. The Station was located in the Detroit News Building, a common practice in
the early days of radio. The first news program was broadcast August 31, 1920. The station was later renamed WWJ and is still broadcasting at 950 on the AM dial with
a all-news format under the ownership of the CBS network.

Listening to a ready-made radio receiver in 1920

Actor Frederick Martin "Fred" MacMurray  appeared in more than 100
movies and a successful television series during a career that spanned
nearly a half-century, from 1930 to the 1970s. MacMurray is well known
for his role in the 1944 film noir Double Indemnity with costar Barbara
Stanwyck. He later became known as Steve Douglas, the widowed head
of the family on My Three Sons,which ran on ABC-TV from 1960 – 1965 
and then on the CBS television network from 1965 – 1972.

The puppet show Kukla, Fran, and Ollie was one of television’s longest-
running children’s programs. It was aired live and unscripted.  

Thurgood Marshall

On June 13, 1967, President Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall 
to the Supreme Court (below) following the retirement of Justice Tom
C. Clark, saying that this was "the right thing to do, the right time to do
it, the right man and the right place." Marshall was confirmed as an
Associate Justice by a Senate vote of 69–11 on August 30, 1967. He
was the 96th person to hold the position, and also the first African
American. He served until October 1991.       

President Johnson and Thurgood Marshall