Engagement Portrait of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier.
Jacqueline Bouvier and then Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy publicly announce their engagement. Kennedy went on to become the 35th president
and Jackie, as she was known, became one of the most popular first ladies ever
to grace the White House.
President John F. Kennedy, his wife, Jacqueline, and their
children, Caroline and John Jr., are seen on Easter Sunday
in 1963.
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John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason
(February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987)
The 1964 film Looking For Love was Johnny Carson’s movie debut. Carson used
to joke that the movie was so bad it was transferred to flammable nitrate film stock.
Connie Francis and Johnny Carson from the film Looking For Love.
David Thatcher was an Army Air Force gunner who helped save four wounded crewmen.
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) – One of the last two surviving members of the Doolittle
Raiders — who bombed Japan in an attack that stunned that nation and boosted
U.S. morale — has died in Montana.
His family said retired Staff Sgt. David Jonathan Thatcher died Wednesday in a
Missoula hospital. His son Jeff said he suffered a stroke on Sunday.
Thatcher’s death leaves Retired Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole of Comfort, Texas,
as the only living airman from among 80 who took off from an aircraft carrier in
16 B-25 bombers to target factory areas and military installations in Japan on
April 18, 1942. Afterward, according to the National Museum of the U.S. Air
Force, the planes headed for airfields in mainland China, realizing they would
run out of fuel,
After his military career, Thatcher worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 30 years
as a clerk and later a letter carrier. He retired in 1980.
A Mitchell B-25 bomber taking off for the initial air raid on Tokyo, in
1942.
