CAMILLE BOHANNON
On this day in 1974, President Gerald Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for draft-evaders and deserters during the Vietnam War.
In west Beirut on this day in 1982, the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children began in refugee camps
of the Lebanese Christian militiamen.
TIM MAGUIRE
On this day in 1963, a bomb explodes during Sunday morning services in
the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young
girls.
With its large African-American congregation, the 16th Street Baptist Church
served as a meeting place for civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr.,
who once called Birmingham a “symbol of hardcore resistance to integration.” Alabama’s governor, George Wallace, made preserving racial segregation one
of the central goals of his administration. Birmingham had one of the most
violent and lawless chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.
2001
On this day in 1950 During the Korean War, U.S. Marines land at Inchon on
the west coast of Korea, 100 miles south of the 38th parallel and just 25 miles
from Seoul. The location had been criticized as too risky, but U.N. Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur (below) insisted on carrying out the landing.
General Douglas MacArthur (center) observes the shelling of
lightly defended Incheon from the U.S. Navy amphibious force
command ship USS Mount McKinley.
TIM MAGUIRE
On this day in 1901, President William McKinley (below) died of
gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin. His Vice President,
Theodore Roosevelt (above) succeeded him at age 43.
William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901)
The assassination of McKinley occurred on September 6, 1901.
It was on this day in 1982 Grace Kelly died of severe head injuries.
Photo of the crashed car after dropping more than
100 feet over a retaining wall.
Spectators view the site of the car crash.
ED DONAHUE
On this day in 2001.
President George W. Bush addresses the nation following the
9/11 attacks.
President George W. Bush with firefighter Bob Beckwith standing in
standing in front of the collapsed World Trade Center buildings.
Johnny Cash and wife June Carter.
John R. Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003)
While hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Johnny Cash died of complications from diabetes at approximately 2:00 a.m. CT on September
12, 2003, aged 71, less than four months after his wife. It was suggested
that his health worsened due to a broken heart over June’s death.
TIM MAGUIRE
Victims bodies are carried from the wreckage of the 1900 hurricane in Galveston.
On this day in 1966, NBC-TV aired the first episode of "Star Trek"
entitled "The Man Trap". The series was canceled on September 2,
1969.
