Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977)
Rock music legend Elvis Presley died in Memphis, Tennessee. The
death of the “King of Rock and Roll” brought legions of mourning fans
to Graceland, his mansion in Memphis. Doctors said he died of a heart
attack, likely brought on by his addiction to prescription barbiturates.
Hogan’s Heroes is a television sitcom set in a Nazi German
prisoner-of-war (POW) camp during World War II. It ran for
168 episodes (six seasons) from September 17, 1965, to
April 4, 1971, on the CBS network, the longest broadcast
run for an American television series inspired by that war.
Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating
an international crew of Allied prisoners running a special
operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played
Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the gullible commandant of the camp,
and John Banner played the blundering but lovable sergeant-
of-the-guard, Hans Schultz.
From left: Bob Crane and Werner Klemperer
Leon Askin takes a break.
Robert Clary (left) and Bob Crane.
On August 11, 1973, the nostalgic teenage coming-of-age movie American Graffiti, directed and co-written by George Lucas,
opened in theaters across the United States. Set in California
in the summer of 1962, American Graffiti was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture, and
helped launch the big-screen careers of Richard Dreyfuss and
Harrison Ford, as well as the former child actor and future Oscar-
winning filmmaker Ron Howard. The film’s success enabled
Lucas to get his next movie made, the mega-hit Star Wars (1977).
Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack
(January 21, 1938 – July 1, 1995)
SANDY KOZEL
Richard (Dick) Wagstaff Clark
(November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)
“American Bandstand” with host Dick Clark debuted on this
day in 1957.
Taken from “EYES OF A GENERATION…TELEVISION’S LIVING HISTORY
Jackie Mason (born Yacov Moshe Maza0;
(June 9, 1928 – July 24, 2021
(New York Post) – Famed Borscht Belt comedian Jackie Mason,
who rose from a modest childhood on the Lower East Side to
become one of the most famous funnymen of all time, has died.
Mason died at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan Saturday, with
his wife Jyll and a few friends by his side.
