Roger LaVerne Smith (December 18, 1932 – June 4, 2017)

LOS ANGELES (AP) –  Actor Roger Smith, who brought glamour to the
TV detective genre as a hip private eye on the ABC series "77 Sunset
Strip," has died.

Jack Gilardi, who is the agent of Smith’s widow, actress Ann-Margret,
said the actor died Sunday morning at a Los Angeles hospital after
battling a terminal illness. Smith had battled the nerve disease
myasthenia gravis for many years.

“77 Sunset Strip”, ABC-TV: 1958 – 1964.

The song “Be-Bop-A-Lula” sold well. It was successful on three
singles charts: it peaked at #7 on the Billboard pop music chart,
#8 on the R&B chart, and also made the top ten on the C&W
Best Seller chart peaking at #5.

Gene Vincent (second from left) and the Blue Caps.

Gene Vincent (Vincent Eugene Craddock)
(February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971)

Camille Bohannon

It was on this day in 1968.

It began on this day in 1967.

U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall (above) gave a speech
at Harvard University in which he outlined what became to known
as the Marshall Plan on this day in 1947.

The first case of AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)
was observed clinically on this day in 1981.