CAMILLE
BOHANNON

Retired actor Charles Robert Redford Jr. is 83 today.

1976

1969

On August 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton (above) become the first sitting
president to testify before the Office of Independent Council as the subject
of a grand-jury investigation.

The testimony came after a four-year investigation into Clinton and his wife
Hillary’s alleged involvement in several scandals, including accusations of
sexual harassment, potentially illegal real-estate deals and suspected
“cronyism” involved in the firing of White House travel-agency personnel.

The independent prosecutor, Kenneth Starr, then uncovered an affair
between Clinton and a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky,
when questioned about the affair, Clinton denied it, which led Starr to
charge the president with perjury and obstruction of justice, which in
turn prompted his testimony on August 17.

President Clinton and Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office, 1997.

Peter Henry Fonda (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019)

(FoxNews) – Actor Peter Fonda, who co-wrote and starred in the seminal
1960s counterculture film "Easy Rider," has died. He was 79.

In a statement obtained by Fox News, Fonda’s family said that the actor  
— the son of Henry Fonda and the younger brother of Jane Fonda, died
Friday morning at his Los Angeles home after suffering respiratory
failure due to lung cancer.

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977)

On August 15, 1969, the Woodstock music festival opened on a patch of
farmland in White Lake, a hamlet in the upstate New York town of Bethel.

Promoters John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfield and Michael Lang originally envisioned the festival as a way to raise funds to build a recording
studio and rock-and-roll retreat near the town of Woodstock, New York. The longtime artists’ colony was already a home base for Bob Dylan and other musicians. Despite their relative inexperience, the young promoters
managed to sign a roster of top acts, including the Jefferson Airplane, the
Who, the Grateful Dead, Sly and the Family Stone, Janis Joplin, Jimi
Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many more.

Plans for the festival were on the verge of foundering, however, after both Woodstock and the nearby town of Wallkill denied permission to hold the
event. Dairy farmer Max Yasgur came to the rescue at the last minute,
giving the promoters access to his 600 acres of land in Bethel, some 50
miles from Woodstock. The event attracted an audience of more than
400.00.