Camille Bohannon

The first observance of a "Father’s Day" was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont,
West Virginia, in the Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now
known as Central United Methodist Church.

A bill to accord national recognition of the holiday was introduced in Congress in
1913. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson went to Spokane to speak in a Father’s
Day celebration^.and wanted to make it official, but Congress resisted, fearing that
it would become commercialized. President Calvin Coolidge recommended in 1924
that the day be observed by the nation, but stopped short of issuing a national proclamation.

Two earlier attempts to formally recognize the holiday had been defeated by 
Congress. In 1957, Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith wrote a proposal
accusing Congress of ignoring fathers for 40 years while honoring mothers,
thus "[singling] out just one of our two parents".

In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued the first presidential proclamation
honoring fathers, designating the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Six years
later, the day was made a permanent national holiday when President Richard
Nixon signed it into law in 1972 (below).

Richard M. Nixon

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Sir James Paul McCartney is 74 today.

Paul McCartney met John Lennon on his school bus as a child and 
later joined Lennon‘s skiffle group The Quarrymen when he was
fifteen. The band played a combination of jazz, blues, and folk
music. After George Harrison joined the band, they changed their
name to The Beatles.

From left: Howard McNear, William Conrad, Georgia Ellis,
and Parley Baer.

The radio series “Gunsmoke” first aired on CBS on April 26, 1952 and
ended on June 18, 1961. The show stars William Conrad as Marshal
Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as
Kitty Russell, and Parley Baer as Dillon’s assistant, Chester Wesley
Proudfoot. The TV series changed the newly limping Chester’s last
name from Proudfoot to Goode.

Sound-effects man Ray Kemper (left)
with William Conrad.

Conrad with cast member Georgia Ellis.

 
William Conrad 
(September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994)