The ‘Kids Say The Darnedest Things’ segment of the Art Linkletter
House Party is the most famous of all. Linkletter interviewed schoolchildren between the ages of five and ten (above).
During the segment’s 27-year run, Linkletter interviewed an
estimated 23,000 children. The popularity of the segment led
to a TV series with the same title hosted by Bill Cosby on CBS-
TV from January 1998 to June 2000.
Former NBA player Robert Reid, who spent most of his 13-year
career with the Rockets, has died.
Reid died after a battle with cancer, according to the Houston
Chronicle.
Howdy Doody is a children’s television show broadcast on
the NBC television network from December 27, 1947, until
September 24, 1960.
It was a pioneer of children’s programming and set the
pattern for many similar shows.
Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy Doody and Clarabell the clown,
originally played by Bob Keeshan, who went on to create
the children’s TV character Captain Kangaroo.
1950s
Lt. Edward O’Hare takes off from the aircraft carrier Lexington
in a raid against the Japanese position at Rabaul—and minutes
later became America’s first WWII flying ace, shooting down five
enemy bombers.
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USS Lexington
Edward "Butch" O’Hare waves during a parade
held in his honor in his hometown of St. Louis,
Missouri. Flanking him are his mother Selma
O’Hare, left, and his wife Rita.
World War II fighter pilot Lt. Cmdr. Edward "Butch" O’Hare,
right, is congratulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
as O’Hare’s wife Rita places the Medal of Honor around his
neck on April 21, 1942, during a White House ceremony in Washington, D.C.
In 1963 President Kennedy lays a wreath on a monument dedicated to Lt. Comdr. Edward "Butch" O’Hare (1914 –
1943). The wreath was handed to him by O’Hare’s
nephews, Philip Tovrea III and Edward Palmer, right.
CARLATA BRADLEY
