Rutherford Birchard Hayes
(October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893)
Rutherford B. Hayes, born in Delaware, Ohio, was the 19th President of the United
States (1877-1881). As president, Hayes oversaw the end of what was known as
the Reconstruction Era and the United States’ entry into the Second Industrial
Revolution.
The President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, named after its chairman Chief Justice
Earl Warren, was established on November 27, 1963, by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22,
1963. The commission’s 888-page final report was presented to President
Johnson on Tuesday September 24, 1964 (above) and was made public on
September 27, 1964. The controversial report concluded that Lee Harvey
Oswald acted along in the killing of Kennedy and the wounding of Texas
Governor John Connally, and that Jack Ruby also acted alone in the
murder of Oswald.
Chief Justice Earl Warren
October, 1964
Jack Ruby Shooting Lee Harvey Oswald
President Eisenhower sits in a wheelchair after being released from
Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver
On Saturday September 24, 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered
a heart attack while vacationing in Denver, Colorado. He spent seven weeks
on the 8th floor of Fitzsimmons Army Hospital. In November the President
returned to Washington and then on to his farm in Gettysburg to recuperate.
1997 publication
The Checkers speech or Fund speech was a television and radio address given on
September 23, 1952 by Richard Nixon, who at the time, was the Republican vice
presidential candidate and junior United States Senator from California. Senator
Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his
backers to reimburse him for his political expenses. During the speech in which he defended himself, he stated that regardless of what anyone said, he intended to
keep one gift: a black and white dog (above) named Checkers by the Nixon children,
thus giving the address its famous name. Nixon’s speech was broadcast from The
El Capitan Theater, now known as the Avalon Hollywood in California. He had been staying at a hotel in Portland, Oregon prior to making the address.
The Avalon Theater
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is a NBC television series that aired from Tuesday
September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. The show stars Robert Vaughn
and David McCallum portraying secret agents.
