ED DANAHUE
On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks, a black seamstress in Montgomery,
AL, refused to give up her seat to a white man. Mrs. Parks was
arrested marking a milestone in the civil rights movement in the
U.S.
The Cleveland Avenue bus Rosa Parks was riding when she was arrested. (Henry Ford Museum)
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)
TIM MAGUIRE
On this day in 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery, on a slope below Arlington House, where an eternal
flame (below) was lit by his widow to forever mark the grave.
Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy walk away from the president’s casket after lighting the Eternal Flame.
John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery
after its 2013 renovation.
TIM MAGUIRE
Jodie Foster in "Courtship of Eddie’s Father”, 1969.
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is 57 today.
Actress, director, and producer Jodie Foster has received
two Academy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards,
two Golden Globe Awards, and the Cecil B. DeMille Award
along with a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for
her work as a director.
Foster began her professional career as a child model when
she was three years old, and she made her acting debut in
1968 in the television sitcom Mayberry R.F.D. In the late
1960s and early 1970s (below).
Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver (1976).
October 14, 1991
Megyn Marie Kelly
Journalist and former corporate defense attorney Megyn Kelly was a anchor
at Fox News from 2004 to 2017, and a talk show host and news correspondent
with NBC News from 2017 to 2018.
Fox News host Megyn Kelly is known for her work on America Live and
America’s Newsroom. She hosted The Kelly File from 9 to 10 p.m. EST on weekdays. She began hosting Megyn Kelly Today on NBC in 2017.
Kelly played field hockey, basketball, and was a cheerleader in high school.
She practiced law for nearly a decade before finding success in broadcast journalism.
February, 2016
CAMILLE BOHANNON
President Richard M. Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors
meeting in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their
president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook."
