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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.
On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln announced that he would
issue a formal emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States
of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863. None did
return and the actual order, signed and issued January 1, 1863, took effect
except in locations where the Union had already mostly regained control.Total
abolition of slavery was finalized by the Thirteenth Amendment which took effect
in December 1865.The freedom of 3.1 million of the nation’s 4 million slaves was proclaimed, and immediately 50,000 of them were freed, with nearly all the rest
seeing freedom as Union armies advanced.
First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
The Legal drama Perry Mason had an original run from September 21, 1957 to
May 22, 1966. The title character was portrayed by Raymond Burr (above).The
show was, at one time, television’s most successful and longest-running lawyer
series.
Perry Mason has been airing syndicated repeats of the show since
1966 as part of it’s afternoon viewing schedule.
CHiPs is a television drama series produced by MGM Studios that
originally aired on NBC-TV from September 15, 1977, to July 17,
1983 (139 episodes ). Although the show finished production in
1983, many regions did not complete their runs of the series until
the later 1980s, in some cases almost ten years after the show
had first appeared. The show starred Erik Estrada as Officer
Frank “Ponch” Poncherello and Larry Wilcox as his partner,
Officer Jon Baker.
On June 13, 1967, President Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall
to the Supreme Court (below) following the retirement of Justice Tom
C. Clark, saying that this was "the right thing to do, the right time to do
it, the right man and the right place." Marshall was confirmed as an
Associate Justice by a Senate vote of 69–11 on August 30, 1967. He
was the 96th person to hold the position, and also the first African
American. He served until October 1991.