The Edsel Show is an hour-long television special broadcast live on CBS to
promote Ford Motor Company‘s new Edsel cars. It was a milestone in Bing
Crosby‘s career, and was notable as the first CBS entertainment program
to be recorded on videotape, for rebroadcasting in the western part of the
country after the show was performed live for the east.

The oldest known Quad Videotape of The Edsel Show, recorded at
CBS Television City in Hollywood.

       
         The Ampex VTR machine

Paul Frederic Simon is 73 years old today

Apollo 7 was the first mission in the United States’ Apollo program to carry a crew
into space. It was also the first American space flight to carry astronauts into low
Earth orbit after a cabin fire killed the Apollo 1 crew in 1967. Apollo 1, also known
as AS-204, originally was to be the first flight. Instead, Apollo 7 carried out the
mission that Apollo 1 was scheduled to do. The crew was commanded by Walter
M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot
R. Walter Cunningham.

    
                                                                          Camille Bohannon

Helen Hayes MacArthur (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993)

Actress Helen Hayes has been acclaimed as The First Lady of American
Theatre whose career spanned almost 80 years. She became one of the
first people to win an EGOT, which is an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and
a Tony Award. She made her stage debut at Washington’s Belasco Theatre
as a singer at the age of five. Her first sound film was The Sin of Madelon
Claudet (1931).