MIKE GRACIA
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is 56 years old today.
Director, producer, and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino first
received acclaim for his 1990s crime films Reservoir Dogs,
Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. He later went on to direct the
action films Kill Bill: Volume 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Inglourious
Basterds and Django Unchained. He dropped out of Narbonne
High School his freshman year to go to acting school.
SANDY KOZEL
On his nationwide CBS-TV program, "See It Now," Edward R.
Murrow, on this day in 1954, used the Wisconsin Republican’s
own filmed and tape-recorded voice to portray him as a man
employing the half-truth as a "staple" and "repeatedly stepping
over the line between investigating and persecuting.
Lawyer Joseph Welch at the Army-McCarthy hearings.
SANDY KOZEL
Apollo 8 astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank
Borman, reached the moon on this day in 1968. They orbited the
moon 10 times before coming back to Earth. Seven months later
man first landed on the moon.
Apollo 8 crew members (from left) James A. Lovell Jr., William A.
Anders and Frank Borman.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
On this day in 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer, a convicted serial killer,
was clubbed to death in a Wisconsin prison by a fellow inmate.
The Grand Ole Opry made its radio debut on station WSM on this day
in 1925.
The WSM broadcast Tower in Brentwood, TN.
George D. Hay, original announcer of WSM’s "Barn
Dance" and later "The Grand Ole Opry," known to
his listeners as "The Solemn Old Judge."
Uncle Jimmy Thompson (80) was the first performer on a new
show called "The WSM Barn Dance."
