This date in history...

[Matrim55]

Sep 8 1966

Star Trek debuts on NBC, with the airing of an episode titled "The Man Trap." The science fiction show proceeds to suffer in the ratings against established sitcoms Bewitched and My Three Sons.

Truly a great day for humanity.

[Dr. Wankler]

Truly a great day for humanity.

I'm pretty sure Oprah's show debuted 20 years ago today... thereby setting humanity back to its usual place.

[Matrim55]

I'm pretty sure Oprah's show debuted 20 years ago today... thereby setting humanity back to its usual place.
Not sure about that, but Nixon was pardoned 32 years ago today. (or was it 31?)

[massone]

9/11/06

5 years ago, terrorists stooped to an all-time cowardly low and attacked the US killing thousands of innocent civilians. the day the world changed......

WE WILL NEVER FORGET

[spejic]

It might be low, but I would think giving your life in persuit of a goal takes some amount of bravery.

But in any case, thanks for telling us. I had totally forgotten.

[marek]

missed the date, but Sept 17 is when the Soviet Communists invaded Poland in accords with the agreement they made with their German Nazi allies

[yossarian]

It might be low, but I would think giving your life in persuit of a goal takes some amount of bravery.

But in any case, thanks for telling us. I had totally forgotten.

Are you Bill Maher?

;)

[DoctorD]

Bloody Vikings!

September 25, 1066 - Harold Godwinson of England defeated Harald Hardråde of Norway in Yorkshire in the Battle of Stamford Bridge, marking the end of Viking invasions of Great Britain.

[Mel Brennan]

That thing we used to have called a First Amendment was ratified by Congress, today in 1789.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Too bad it doesn't say "and no branch shall effect any practice" after "Congress shall make no law"...we'd be better off.

[Matrim55]

Those ********** French know how to handle muhammadists!

Oct 17 1961

Between 50 and 200 unarmed Algerian muslims are massacred by Paris police during an FLN demonstration. Dozens more are murdered in the courtyard of the main police headquarters. At the time, the De Gaulle government was unstable and trying to hold onto its African colonies, thus the massacre was not widely reported.

[YankHibee]

539 BC - King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.

from wikipedia

[art]

Oct 18 1922 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) established

[Matrim55]

Nov 9 2346

Romulans commit an atrocity now known as the Khitomer Massacre, slaughtering over 4,000 Klingons on an agricultural colony. Worf and Kahlest are the only two to survive.

[nicephoras]

That does sound awful. Of course, Kristallnacht and the Beer Hall Putsch both occurred on the 9th of November. As did the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Its an odd day for a birthday.

[spejic]

Nov 9 2346

Romulans commit an atrocity now known as the Khitomer Massacre, slaughtering over 4,000 Klingons on an agricultural colony. Worf and Kahlest are the only two to survive.We never get the Romulan side of this, do we?

[MyHouse!]

It's been said that the United States as a country has never really gotten over the assassination of JFK some 43 years ago. IT was a traumatic event where a youthful president was cut down in the prime of his life.

But while the tragedy of day continues to be felt by those who remember the day and through the conspiracy theories that surround it, it also marked a new day in media reporting. It was the day that TV replaced radio and print as the primary way to get news. All the majore networks suspended programming for the first time cover the event.

For me, there is something intriguing about listening to media broadcasts from historic events. A story is best told by those who were there and you can't get any more contemporary than the news broadcasters who actually reported the news as it happens.

So, once again, MyHouse is firing up the time machine to go back to Nov. 22, 1963.

President Kennedy arrived in Dallas on what was thought to be the first part of his 1964 re-election campaign in a conservative hostile city that was described as "booming Sen. Barry Goldwater's chances," for the presidency.

However, on this day there were nothing but friendly faces as large crowds cheered him and his wife, ridinging in the bubble top limosine but with the top down. As NBC anchor Bill Ryan would later say, "This might have been a tragic mistake."

As the president's limosine passed the Texas School Book Depository building and approached what is called the Triple Underpass, tragic history would begin to unfold.

At this point there were no radio or television coverage. Most local outlets were waiting for the President to arrive at the Trade Mart where he was to give an address. KLIF, a local Top 40 station/news station was scheduled to carry the address. However to pass the time, the Rex Jones show was just getting underway.

As the precise time the show was playing some commercials before the first song, the first shots rang out.

KBOX recreated the the scene (http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/00 kbox1.mp3)

The President at this point has been mortally wounded and the Texas governor, John Connolly was seriously wounded as well.


KLIF first gets word of shots being fired in the motorcade and interrupts the Chiffon's I Have a Boyfriendwith this bulletin (http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/01 klif1.mp3)

Merriman Smith of UPI would be the first of the reporters travelling with the President to get the word out. His phone call to the UPI bureau led to 5 rings being heard around the world and this bulletin being sent out. Notice how the person at the teletype is fighting with other bureaus to get the word out.

http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/UPI bulletin JFK shot.jpg

Walter Cronkite interrupted As the World Turns and read the following with this bulletin read over a screen that only said "CBS Bulletin" (http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/02 cronkite.mp3)

Before his SNL announcing days, NBC's Don Pardo made a similar announcement to NBC audiences (http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/03 pardo.mp3) beginning a LONG broadcast day for anchors Bill Ryan, Frank McGee and the famed Chet Huntley

[MyHouse!]

All the networks, both radio and television have jumped into fray and are reporting updates as soon as they can get it.

Here is a medley of ABC Radio, breaking the news and giving updates (http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/04 abc medley.mp3)

Here is another (http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/05 abc medley2.mp3)

For the longest time, however, there was no real updates on the president's condition. Mutual Radio reported that they had learned the President was alive as late as 12:55pmCST but had no further word on him or the governor.

In all actuality the President's heart beat weakened dramatically after he had been brought in at 12:43pm. Doctors later said that had very little hope of saving him.

Still no word had been released. People camped out near the emergency entrance as this report from KRLD describes (http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/06 krld parkland.mp3).

Finally two priests emerge with the news no one wanted to hear. Bill Ryan, more than holding his own at the NBC anchor desk with his more famous collegues interrupted Chet Huntley with this report and getting additional confirmation from a local Dallas station. (http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/07 bill ryan priests.mp3)

At this point, Lyndon Johnson had left the hospital because he learned that at 1pmCST, the president had died. The official announcement at the hospital was delayed so that the new president could leave for Air Force One still at Love Field.

After his departure, acting White House press secretary Malcolm Kilduff made the following announcement (http://www.fiftiesweb.com/kennedy/kilduff.wav). The KBOX correspondent described the reaction at the hospital (http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/08 kbox.mp3)

The news bureaus heard the teletype machines ring 10 times before the following came through:

http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/UPI FLASH PRESIDENT DEAD.jpg

The most famous announcement of the president's death was done by Walter Cronkite who had to check his emotions as he made the grim announcement (http://www.fiftiesweb.com/kennedy/cronkite-kennedy-dead.mp3). But as equally dramatic was KLIF's announcement. The music had long ago stopped and they brought continuous news as it came to them. They had received reports that the president had died but unlike Mutual or ABC, they did not go with the story until the news was official. When they made the announcement the shock is evident in their voices. If you listen very closely, you can hear the bells from the teletype just before the announcement was made. (http://www.golnoir.net/jfk/10 klif.mp3)

President Kennedy was dead and the chaos of the American 1960's that would claim Lee Harvey Oswald just two days later, (http://www.fiftiesweb.com/kennedy/oswald-shot-nbc.mp3) the President's brother, Robert and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X all within 5 years and be further illustrated by Vietnam, Watts, Birmingham, Newark, Chicago and elsewhere had well and truly begun.

And TV would be the medium that would capture it best

[MyHouse!]

http://video.cgi.cbsnews.com/video/video.pl?url=/media/2003/11/18/video584312.rm&sid=500251&ad=/media/2005/01/11/video666145.rm

[MyHouse!]

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/rubyshot.jpg

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/kennedy/oswald-shot-nbc.mp3

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/Lee_shot.jpg

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/deadlee.jpg

[DoctorD]

Why all the hagiology of JFK? A mediocre president with a rich daddy.