Johnny Carson and guest Eva Gabor play the “Twister” game.

On the May 3, 1966, episode of the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson took a few
minutes to demonstrate the little-known new party game. His guest that night
was actress Eva Gabor. After a few right foot reds and left hand blues, Carson
and Gabor were playfully entangled and the studio audience was in hysterics.

It has been said that if it hadn’t been for Johnny Carson, “Twister” may have
never gotten off the ground. The game went on to sell more than 3 million
copies over the next year.

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, better known as Amtrak, is a
publicly funded railroad service operated and managed as a for-profit which
began operations on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service
in the United States.

Amtrak operates more than 300 trains each day on 21,300 miles of track that
connects more than 500 destinations in 46 states^.  Its headquarters is at Union
Station in Washington, D.C. The name "Amtrak" is a combination of the words
"America" and "trak",

Arthur Morton Godfrey (August 31, 1903 – March 16, 1983)

"Arthur Godfrey Time" was a Monday-Friday show that featured Godfrey’s
monologues, interviews with various stars, music from his own in-house
combo and regular vocalists. It remained a late morning staple on the
CBS Radio Network schedule until 1972.

Bobby Vee (born Robert Thomas Velline in Fargo, North Dakota)

Bobby Vee scored a #1 hit single with "Take Good Care of My Baby" in
1961. He recorded his first single, "Suzie Baby," at age sixteen. He has
had thirty-eight Billboard Hot 100 chart hits.

Bobby and his band had to step in on February 3, 1959, known as The
Day the Music Died, and perform at the show Buddy Holly was scheduled
to play.