(Fox News) – "The Wizard of Oz,"(1939) the Hollywood epic
beloved by generations of Americans for its fantastical
allegory rooted in love of heartland, home and family,
appeared on the CBS television network for the first time
on this date in history, Nov. 3, 1956.
PORTLAND, Ore. —According to his family, Len Bergstein died
Monday night. He was 76 years old.
A close family friend said his sudden death was likely caused by
a heart attack.
On October 5, 1947, President Harry Truman (left/above) made the
first-ever televised presidential address from the White House,
asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to
help starving Europeans.
At the time of Truman’s food-conservation speech, Europe was
still recovering from World War II and suffering from famine.
Truman, the 33rd commander in chief, worried that if the U.S. didn’t provide food aid, his administration’s Marshall Plan for European economic recovery would fall apart.
He asked farmers and distillers to reduce grain use and requested
that the public voluntarily forgo meat on Tuesdays, eggs and
poultry on Thursdays and save a slice of bread each day.
For the first time in U.S. history, a debate between major party presidential candidates was shown on television.
The presidential hopefuls, John F. Kennedy, a Democratic senator
of Massachusetts, and Richard M. Nixon, the vice president of the
United States, met in a Chicago studio to discuss U.S. domestic
matters.
Kennedy emerged the apparent winner from this first of four
televised debates, partly owing to his greater ease before the
camera than Nixon, who, unlike Kennedy, seemed nervous and
declined to wear makeup.
Bernard Shaw (May 22, 1940 – September 7, 2022)
Shaw was an journalist and news anchor for CNN from 1980 until
his retirement in March 2001. Prior to his time at CNN, he was a
reporter and anchor for WNUS, Westinghouse Broadcasting, CBS
News, and ABC News.
Bernard Shaw died at a hospital in Washington, D.C. after
contracting pneumonia.
