CBS broadcast journalist and anchorman Walter Cronkite prepares
to announce the death of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the
United States.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)
CAMILLE BOHANNON
President Richard M. Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors
meeting in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their
president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook."
MIKE GRACIA
The great Northeast blackout occurred on this day in 1965, as several
states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting
up to 13 1/2 hours. More than 30 million people were into darkness in
one of the biggest electrical power failures in history. The blackout
was caused by a misconfigured power line at a hydroelectric power
station at Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
TIM MAGUIRE
On this day in 1940, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a 42 mph windstorm. The suspension
bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. The collapse had lasting
effects on science and engineering.
William Franklin Graham Jr. (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018)
Billy Graham was an American evangelist, a prominent evangelical Christian
figure, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well-known internationally in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him
"among the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century.
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1968, the United States presidential election was the 46th quadrennial U.S. presidential election. The Republican nominee, former
Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee,
incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Analysts have argued the election of 1968 was a major realigning election
as it permanently disrupted the New Deal Coalition that had dominated
presidential politics for 36 years.
