SANDY KOZEL
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On his nationwide CBS-TV program, "See It Now," Edward R.
Murrow, on this day in 1954, used the Wisconsin Republican’s
own filmed and tape-recorded voice to portray him as a man
employing the half-truth as a "staple" and "repeatedly stepping
over the line between investigating and persecuting.
Lawyer Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings.
Jan-Michael Vincent (July 15, 1945 – February 10, 2019)
(Fox News) – Jan-Michael Vincent, the ‘80s star best known for his role
on TV’s hit series “Airwolf,” has died. The cause of death was listed as
cardiac arrest. No autopsy was performed.
According to a death certificate from a North Carolina hospital published
Friday, the actor passed away on Feb. 10.
In 2014,Vincent disclosed his right leg was amputated just below the
knee in 2012 after contracting an infection as a result of complications
from peripheral artery disease.
Jan-Michael Vincent and Ernest Borgnine.
The television series Airwolf ran from 1984 until 1987 on CBS.
SANDY KOZEL
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On "Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights marchers headed east out of Selma on U.S. Route 80. They got only as far as
the Edmund Pettus Bridge six blocks away, where state and local
lawmen with batons and tear gas drove them back into Selma.
MIKE GRACIA
The 13-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army ended
on this day in 1836. The Mexican army of about four thousand men
under President General Santa Anna defeated 189 Texas volunteers fighting for independence from Mexico.
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Rob Reiner (Robert Norman Reiner) is 72 years-old today.
Actor and director Rob Reiner is known especially for his role as
Michael (“Meathead”) Stivic in the CBS television series All in the
Family (1971–79) and for his direction of such culturally resonant
films as This Is Spinal Tap (1984), The Princess Bride (1987), When
Harry Met Sally… (1989), and A Few Good Men (1992).
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893) was declared
the winner and 19th president of the United States after the 1876
presidential election by the United States Congress. However, it
was Samuel J. Tilden (below), who won the popular vote on Nov.
7, 1876. Hayes served a single term, as he had promised in his
inaugural address.
Samuel Jones Tilden
(February 9, 1814 – August 4, 1886)
He was the 25th Governor of New York.
