TIM MAGUIRE
William Oliver Stone is 73 years old today.
1991
JFK was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including
Best Picture, Best Director for Stone and Best Supporting
Actor for Jones and won two for Best Cinematography and
Best Film Editing. It was the most successful of three films
Stone made about American presidents, followed by Nixon
(1995) with Anthony Hopkins in the title role and W. (2008)
with Josh Brolin as George W. Bush.
TIM MAGUIRE
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)
Buddy Holly was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who formed The
Crickets and pioneered rock music with the hit "That’ll Be the Day,"
which topped the Billboard U.S. Best Sellers list.
He won a talent contest when he was five years old for singing "Have
You Ever Gone Sailing (Down the River of Memories)."
He died in a plane crash less than two years after his career took off.
Rolling Stone ranked him as the thirteenth "Greatest Artist of All Time."
Buddy Holly & The Crickets on the Ed Sullivan Show, January, 1958.
TIM MAGUIRE
On this day in 1901, U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by Leon Czolgosz, an American anarchist . McKinley succumbed
to his wounds on September 14, 1901. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt
was sworn into office on the same day, succeeding McKinley, who had
been reelected in 1900. Gzolgosz was executed on October 29, 1901.
Leon Frank Czolgosz (May 5, 1873 – October 29, 1901)
The site of William McKinley’s tragic assassination in Buffalo, New
York is only marked by a plaque on a large boulder.
SANDY KOZEL
Retired Scottish actor Sir Thomas Sean Connery
is 89 today.
James Bond: 1962-1969 and 1983
1989
