A fire at Our Lady of Angels grade school in Chicago killed
87 children and three nuns on December 1, 1958; five more
children later died as a result of their injuries.
The Our Lady of Angels School was operated by the Sisters
of Charity in Chicago.
MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 1973, a Senate vote confirmed Gerald Ford as
vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned to avoid being indicted for allegedly accepting bribes. Ford was the first
vice president to be selected under the terms of the 25th Amendment.
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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
(born Leslie Lynch King Jr.)
(July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006)
TIM MAGUIRE
St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C., during
President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.
John F. Kennedy’s funeral: (l-r) Mamie Eisenhower, Harry
S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mrs. Clifton Daniel (Margaret Truman) shortly after the mourning ceremony
in St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington.
John F. Kennedy Jr., salutes as the casket of this father, President John F. Kennedy, is carried from St. Matthew’s Cathedral during his funeral services.
A horse-drawn caisson carrying the body of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy passes mourners lining the
streets of Washington from the White House to
the Capitol.
Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy with their sister in
law Jacqueline Kennedy during the funeral of President
John F Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy’s flag-draped casket lay in state in
Washington, D.C.
A hijacker who became known as D.B. Cooper parachutes from
a Northwest Orient Airlines 727 into a raging thunderstorm over Washington State. He had $200,000 in ransom money in his
possession.
Cooper commandeered the aircraft shortly after takeoff, showing
a flight attendant what looked like a bomb and informing the crew
that he wanted $200,000, four parachutes, and “no funny stuff.”
The plane landed at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, where authorities met Cooper’s demands and evacuated most of the passengers. Cooper then demanded that the plane fly toward
Mexico at a low altitude and ordered the remaining crew into
the cockpit.
At 8:13 p.m., as the plane flew over the Lewis River in southwest Washington, the plane’s pressure gauge recorded Cooper’s jump
from the aircraft.
A storm prevented an immediate capture, and most authorities
assumed he was killed during his apparently suicidal jump. No
trace of Cooper was found during a massive search.
