Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 – October 13, 1990)
Edwards anchored CBS‘s first network nightly television news broadcast from
1947– 1962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News.
John Cameron Swayze (April 4, 1906 – August 15, 1995)
Swayze was chosen in 1949 to host NBC’s first television newscast, the 15-
minute Camel News Caravan.
President John Kennedy slumps against his wife Jacqueline as she reaches towards Secret Service agent Clint Hill.
Two hours and eight minutes after the death of John F. Kennedy,
Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President on board Air Force
One.
On this day in 1963, CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite was standing over the newswire machine when a bulletin broke announcing that President Kennedy
had been shot. The network was 10 minutes into a live broadcast of a soap
opera, but at Cronkite’s insistence the news division broke in with audio
updates. At 2:38 p.m., Cronkite wept on air when he made the official announcement that President John F. Kennedy was dead.
Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin
of President John F. Kennedy.
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
TIM MAGUIRE
On this day in 1957, 300 U.S. Army troops stood guard as nine black students were escorted to class at Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The children had been forced to withdraw 2 days earlier because
of unruly white mobs.
Michael Kirk Douglas is 74 today.
Michael Douglas won an Academy Award for
Best Actor for his role in the 1987 film Wall
Street. He reprised his role in the 2010 sequel
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. His other
notable film credits include The Game (1997),
Traffic (2000), Basic Instinct (1992) and Falling
Down (1993). He is the son of legendary actor
Kirk Douglas.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
On this day in 1968, "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS-TV.
Harry Reasoner (left) and Mike Wallace co-host the first broadcast.
On this day in 1956, The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field (above).
Ebbets Field – last game between Brooklyn Dodgers & Giants – Willie Mays is shown coming to bat. The Dodgers won.
SANDY KOZEL
The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress on this
day in 1850. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states.
September 18, 1975, after crisscrossing the country with her captors–
or conspirators–for more than a year, Patty Hearst, or “Tania,” as
she called herself, was captured in a San Francisco apartment and
arrested for armed robbery. Despite her later claim that she had
been brainwashed by the SLA, she was convicted on March 20, 1976,
and sentenced to seven years in prison. Her prison sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter and she was released in
February 1979. She later married her bodyguard. In 2001, she
received a full pardon from President Bill Clinton.
Patty Hearst poses with a Symbionese Liberation Army poster.
On this day in 2001, Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., and later
tested positive for anthrax, were sent to the New York Post and
NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw.
