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)

SHIRLEY SMITH

Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph on
this day in 1877.

On this day in 1973, President Richard M. Nixon‘s attorney, J. Fred
Buzhardt, announced the presence of an 18½-minute gap in one of
the White House tape recordings related to the Watergate case.

President Nixon (seated) and H.R. Haldeman in 1972.

On this day in 1934, the Cole Porter musical "Anything
Goes" opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre (now
known as the Neil Simon Theatre). The musical has
been revived several times in the U.S. and Britain and
has been filmed twice. It has long been a popular
choice for school and community productions.

Ethel Merman (Ethel Agnes Zimmermann)
(January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984)

TIM MAGUIRE

President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield
in Pennsylvania on this day in 1863.

On this day in 1959, Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel. Ford began selling the ill-
fated line of cars in 1957.

Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is 56 years young today.

Foster first gained fame for her role as a teenage prostitute in the 1976
Martin  Scorsese film Taxi Driver. She won Academy Awards for Best
Actress for her performances in The Accused (1988) and Silence of the
Lambs (1991) and also had starring roles in Contact (1985), Anna and
the King (1999), and Panic Room (2002).

Jodie Foster in Jonathan Demme’s 1991 masterpiece The Silence
of the Lambs.  

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1973, President Richard 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."

The U.S. Congress held its first session in Washington, DC,
in the newly completed north wing of the unfinished Capitol
building (above)  on this day in 1800. They moved from
Philadelphia.

 

        

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1982, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in
Washington, DC. It attracts more than 5.6 million visitors each year.

Former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones (left) sued President
Bill Clinton for sexual harassment when he was governor, alleging
he exposed himself to her in a hotel room in 1991. The Jones suit,
which went all the way to the Supreme Court, was ultimately
dismissed by a judge on the grounds Jones could not show
damages. While it was on appeal, President Clinton agreed to      
an out-of-court settlement on this day in 1998. He paid $850,000 
without admitting liability.
 

President Clinton is shown in this video image during his deposition
Jan. 17, 1998 in the Paula Jones case,

Paula Corbin Jones (Paula Rosalee Corbin) turned
52 September 17.