President John F. Kennedy lying in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.
(November 24-25, 1963)

Jacqueline Kennedy kisses the casket of her husband in the rotunda
of the U.S. Capitol as daughter Caroline kneels alongside. (AP)

Michael John Pollard (Michael John Pollack Jr.)
(May 30, 1939 – November 21, 2019)

(Variety) – Academy Award nominee Michael J. Pollard, known
for his roles in “Bonnie and Clyde” and “House of 1000 Corpses,”
has died from cardiac arrest .

“House of 1000 Corpses” director Rob Zombie broke the news on
Facebook early Friday morning. More recently, Pollard starred in
Zombie’s 2003 cult film “House of 1000 Corpses.” His last role was
“The Woods” in 2012.

Michael J. Pollard

SHIRLEY SMITH

Thomas A. Edison announced he had devised a method to record
sound with the invention of his phonograph on this day in 1877. It ushered in a new era of music and spoken word.

Dead bodies lie around the compound of the People’s Temple cult.          

On November 18, 1978, a charismatic Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones 
(inert) lead hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their
agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of
Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch
while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at the
compound that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.

Bodies lie behind a tub of cyanide-laced punch in Jonestown,
Guyana.

Reverend Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, taken from a photo
album left behind in the village in Jonestown, Guyana.

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."