ROSS
SIMPSON

Director/producer,Steven A. Spielberg is 75 years old today.

The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers,
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay
and Russel Crouse. It is based on the 1949 memoir of Maria von
Trapp, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers. Set in Austria on
the eve of the Anschluss in 1938.

The original Broadway production of The Sound of Music,starring
Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel (below),was a smash success
from the very night of its opening. 

CAMILLE BOHANNON

General George Washington at Valley Forge.

CAMILLE  BOHANNON

On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy increased military aid to South Vietnam without committing U.S.
combat troops.