Hugh Malcolm Downs (February 14, 1921 – July 1, 2020) 

Broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game
show host, and music composer. A regular television presence from
the 1940s through the 1990s, he had several successful roles on
morning television, prime time television, and late night television.

Downs served as announcer/sidekick for Tonight Starring Jack Paar
from 1957 to 1962, co-host of the NBC News program Today from
1962 to 1971, host of the Concentration game show from 1958 to
1969, and anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20 from 1978 to
1999. Downs died at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona.

One of the largest military conflicts in North American history began on July
1, 1863, when Union and Confederate forces collided at Gettysburg, PA. The 
epic battle lasted three days and resulted in a retreat to Virginia by General
Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia.

Robert Edward Lee
(January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870)

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The Gettysburg Battlefield as it looks today on the rolling hills to the
west of town. 

Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922 – June 29, 2020)

Comedian, actor, director, screenwriter, and publisher Carl Reiner’s career
spanned seven decades. During the early years of television comedy from
1950 to 1957, he co-wrote and acted on Caesar’s Hour and Your Show of
Shows, starring Sid Caesar. In the 1960s, Reiner was best known as the
creator, producer, writer, and actor on The Dick Van Dyke Show.

Blonde bombshell and celebrated actress Jayne Mansfield was killed instantly
on June 29, 1967, when the car in which she is riding struck the rear of a trailer truck on U.S. Route 90 east of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mansfield had been on her way to New Orleans from Biloxi, Mississippi, where
she had been performing a standing engagement at a local nightclub; she had
a television appearance scheduled the following day. Ronald B. Harrison, a
driver for the Gus Stevens Dinner Club, was driving Mansfield and her lawyer
and companion, Samuel S. Brody, along with three of Mansfield’s children with
her ex-husband Mickey Hargitay, in Stevens’ 1966 Buick Electra.

Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer)
(April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967)