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CHARACTER ACTOR HAS DIED AT 89

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Joseph Ruskin (Joseph Schlafman)  (April 14, 1924 – December 28, 2013)

Ruskin was the uncredited voice of the Kanamits from The Twilight Zone episode
"To Serve Man" (1962). He garnered 124 television credits. The actor died of
natural causes at a hospital in Santa Monica, California.

 

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ADVENTURE FILM DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1954

The movie 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea It was the first science fiction film that
was personally produced by Walt and Disney Productions. It was also the first
feature length Disney film to be distributed by Buena Vista Distribution and was
Disney’s fifth live-action film  overall.

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THE ROSWELL INCIDENT ON THIS DAY IN 1947

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Sacramento Bee article

The Roswell incident took place on Monday, July 7, 1947, when an airborne
object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Explanations of what
actually occurred are based on both official and unofficial reports.The most
popular theory of what took place is that the object, or UFO, was a spacecraft
containing extraterrestrial life. Since the late 1970s, the Roswell incident has
been the subject of much controversy, and conspiracy theories have arisen
about the event.

The U.S. government maintains that what was recovered near Roswell was
debris from the crash of an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon
belonging to what was then a classified top secret program named Mogul 
(see below).

 

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MaJ. Jesse Mar­cel displays the Roswell balloon debris

 

 

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JUNE LOCKHART IS 88 YEARS YOUNG TODAY

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June Lockhart
Hollywood Collectors and Celebrities Show presented by Ray Courts and Sharon Courts held at the Hilton Burbank Airport Hotel and Convention Center
Burbank, California - 14.010.06
Credit: Rachel Worth / WENN
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Actress June Lockhart primarily is remembered as the mother in two
TV series, Lassie during the mid 1950s on CBS and Lost in Space 
(1965-1968) on CBS.
She also portrayed Dr. Janet Craig on the
CBS television sitcom Petticoat Junction (1968–70).

She made her acting debut opposite her parents in a film version of
A Christmas Carol, in 1938.

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MARIETTE HARTLEY IS 73 TODAY

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Mariette Hartley as seen in an original series Star Trek episode

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Mary Loretta “Mariette” Hartley

Hartley is a well known character actress who began her career in her
teens as a stage actress. Her film career began with Ride the High
Country
(1962), She first appeared on television in a CBS episode
of Gunsmoke in 1962.

 

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Dennis Weaver and Mariette Hartley from Gunsmoke


Polaroid commercial with James Garner and Mariette Hartley, 1981

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