TIM MAGUIRE
William Oliver Stone is 73 years old today.
1991
JFK was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including
Best Picture, Best Director for Stone and Best Supporting
Actor for Jones and won two for Best Cinematography and
Best Film Editing. It was the most successful of three films
Stone made about American presidents, followed by Nixon
(1995) with Anthony Hopkins in the title role and W. (2008)
with Josh Brolin as George W. Bush.
Retired singer Kenneth Ray Rogers is 81 today.
Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, sometimes billed as The First Edition, was an eclectic rock band whose styles ranged from rock
and roll to R&B, folk, and country.
Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers
MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 1971, President Nixon announced that he’d sent Henry Kissinger to China and that the result of these meetings was an agreement for a presidential trip to China to seek a ‘’normalization
of relations.”
President Nixon shakes hands with Premier Chou En-lai of the
People’s Republic of China.
President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon Visiting the
Great Wall of China.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
It was on this day in 1964.
The bodies of the three civil rights workers found in an earthen dam
in Mississippi on August 4, 1964.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
On this day in 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson (left), famous football player O.J.
Simpson’s ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman (right) are brutally stabbed
to death outside Nicole’s home in Brentwood, California, in what quickly
becomes one of the most highly publicized trials of the century. With
overwhelming evidence against him, including a prior record of domestic
violence towards Brown, O.J. Simpson (below) became the chief suspect.
Robert Shapiro (l.) and Johnny Cochran sit with Simpson (right)
during the murder trial.
O.J. Simpson was released from prison on October 1, 2018 after
nine years behind bars for a 2007 armed robbery in Las Vegas.
