TIM MAGUIRE
I Love Lucy is a television sitcom that originally aired on
CBS from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, with a total
of 180 half-hour episodes spanning six seasons.
The series starred Lucille Ball (1911-1989) and her husband
Desi Arnaz (1917-1986) (above) along with Vivian Vance and William Frawley.
ROSS SIMPSON
Citizen Kane is a 1941 drama film directed by, produced
by, and starring Orson Welles. Welles and Herman J.
Mankiewicz wrote the screenplay. The picture was
Welles’s first feature film. Citizen Kane is frequently
cited as the greatest film ever made.
Kane opened at the RKO Palace Theatre on Broadway in
New York on May 1, 1941, in Chicago on May 6, and in Los Angeles on May 8.
Welles said that at the Chicago premiere that he attended
the theater was almost empty.
Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel Francis Gary Powers
On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers
was released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel
Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United
States five years earlier.
The Glienicke bridge (known as the Bridge of Spies) just
after the Powers swap.
Francis Gary Powers
(August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977)
Powers later worked as a helicopter pilot
for KNBC in Los Angeles and died in a
1977 helicopter crash.
The wreckage of Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 spy plane
(top/bottom) on May 1, 1960.
An American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was
shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union.
The incident derailed an important summit meeting between
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev that was scheduled for later that month.
After being shot down, Powers (right) appeared in the dock
of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. and was tried by the
Soviet Military Board on August 19, 1960.
Francis Gary Powers holds a model of a U-2 spy plane as he testifies before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee
after his release from Soviet prison in march 1962.
Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977)
Powers was piloting a helicopter for Los Angeles TV station
KNBC Channel 4 over the San Fernando Valley on August 1,
1977, when the aircraft crashed, killing him and his cameraman
George Spears.
CARLATA BRADLEY
The Soviet Union, on this day in 1962, exchanged capture American
U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (above) for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel (below) being held by the U.S.
Alleged Russian spy Rudolf Abel (right) steps down from a patrol
wagon.
The Glienicke bridge just after the Powers swap.
Francis Gary Powers with his U-2 Reconnaissance Aircraft.
On this day in 1992, Mike Tyson (in handcuffs) was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, Miss Black American contestant.
Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman" opened at the
Morocco Theatre in New York City on this day in 1949.
Left: Mildred Dunnock, Arthur Kennedy, Cameron Mitchell and
Lee J. Cobb in a scene from "Death Of A Salesman".
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005)
