After seven years of singing on the radio, Kate Smith began a new noontime talk show entitled Kate Smith Speaks, a news and gossip
radio program.

MIKE GRACIA

On this day in 1997, Dexter King (left), son of Martin Luther King
Jr., met with his father’s convicted assassin James Earl Ray in
prison.

Milton Berle  (Mendel Berlinger) (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002)

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is 54 years old today. He
was born in Knoxville, TN.

Tarantino dropped out of Narbonne High School his freshman
year to go to acting school in Toluca Lake.

The film American Hot Wax is a 1978 biopic directed by Floyd Mutrux and
written by John Kaye, telling the story of pioneering disc jockey Alan Freed,
who was instrumental in introducing and popularizing rock and roll in the
1950s. It stars Tim McIntire as Freed, and Fran Drescher as Freed’s feisty
secretary, Laraine Newman plays a young aspiring songwriter, and Jay
Leno as Freed’s limousine driver. It also features performances by Chuck
Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Frankie Ford, and Screamin’ Jay Hawkins. On theater
release, the film did not do well at the box office.  

Albert James "Alan" Freed
(December 15, 1921 – January 20, 1965)

SANDY KOZEL

Edward R. Murrow on the CBS set of See It Now.

"The Monitor and Merrimac: The First Fight Between Ironclads"
during the  Battle of Hampton Roads in 1862.
 

George Burns and his wife, Gracie Allen.

George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum) (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996)

      1977

Alan Samuel Colmes (September 24, 1950 – February 23, 2017)

The liberal radio and TV commentator died at a Manhattan medical center this
morning after suffering from lymphoma. 

Colmes, who was born in New York City, was  a longtime radio host with WABC 
and WNBC, author, and even a stand up comedian.