During the 1890s, publications were inserted into Joseph
Pulitzer‘s New York World and William Randolph Hearst‘s
New York Journal.

In November 1896, Morrill Goddard, editor of the New
York Journal from 1896 to 1937, launched Hearst’s
Sunday magazine, later commenting, "Nothing is so
stale as yesterday’s newspaper, but The American
Weekly may be around the house for days or weeks
and lose none of its interest."

William Randolph Hearst Sr. 
(April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951)

As the presidential election of 1952 began to heat up, so did
accusations and counteraccusations concerning communism
in America. The “Red Scare”—the widespread belief that
international communism was operating in the United States
—came to dominate much of the debate between Democrats
and Republicans in 1952.

Senator Joe McCarthy delivered a radio address on 
October 27, 1952 where he made accusations of
Communist infiltration into the State Department,
the administration of President Harry S. Truman,
the Voice of America, and the U.S. Army.

On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the
African American civil rights movement reached its high-water
mark when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream"
speech to about 250,000 people attending the March for Jobs
and Freedom.  

ED DANAHUE

August 27 is known in some circles as Oil and Gas Industry
Appreciation Day. This date, in 1859, is also when Edwin
Drake drilled the first successful oil well in the world.

(Col) Edwin L. Drake (
March 29, 1819 – November 9, 1880)
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On August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball
game was broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was
to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called the game
between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at
Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.

This all started in April of 1939 with the opening of The World’s
Fair, when David Sarnoff told the nation that RCA had “added
radio sight to sound”, and officially kicked off the age of
television.

Barber (in suit) called the first game on NBC Radio and
moved over to TV for the second game.

The President of RCA, David Sarnoff, dedicating the RCA
Building at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York.