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the year that brought the swinging 60s

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to a close, was about as harsh a morning

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after as the Poseidon adventure,

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although that was still a few years

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away. After instilling the nation with

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the blind optimism of flower power and

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beetle mania, the back half of the 1960s

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came crashing down with the

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assassinations of John F. Kennedy and

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Martin Luther King Jr., the beginning of

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the Vietnam War, and the Manson family.

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>> Right. 1970 rode that bleak wave into a

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decade marked by geopolitical unrest,

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gas shortages, natural disasters, serial

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killers, terrorism, and one of the

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biggest scandals in 20th century

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American politics. And also a bunch of

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really groovy movies. Almost too many,

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really.

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>> Oh, I can imagine quite a bit.

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>> We're going to talk about the news,

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culture, sports, and entertainment, and

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all that was weird in the 70s. This is

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Timeline.

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Get ready for some forgettable Beatles

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solo albums because this one is all

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about 1970. But before we get started,

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be sure to subscribe to the Weird

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History Channel and let us know in the

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comments below your favorite '7s memory.

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Now, are you ready to boogie down? Let's

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all dance through the night together.

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>> Despite positive changes brought about

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by the civil rights movement and a

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national excitement over the

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possibilities of space exploration

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following Neil Armstrong's historic

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first steps on the moon, the decade

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began on uncertain ground. Twothirds of

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Americans disapproved of the US's

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involvement in the Vietnam War. The year

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ahead would see the continued

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proliferation of nuclear weapons, a

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shocking display of state violence, an

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infamous space disaster that nearly

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ended in tragedy, and the dissolution of

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one of the most influential bands of all

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time. But it wasn't all bad.

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>> The Hollywood coroner says an overdose

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of narcotics is responsible for the

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death of the well-known rock singer

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Janice Ja.

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>> Okay, so it was mostly bad. Some years

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just start out in desperate need of a

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doover and never fully recover. When do

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we get started?

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>> When did we get started?

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>> Why not?

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>> This is 1970.

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[Music]

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>> The Who's drummer and resident party

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animal Keith Moon kicked off the decade

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by drunkenly running over his own

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chauffeur while trying to escape an

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unruly mob of skin heads outside a pub

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in London. The group surrounded Moon's

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Bentley and began pelting it, at which

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point Moon's driver, Neil Boland,

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climbed out to confront them. The skin

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heads pummeled Boland mercilessly, and a

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terrified Moon grabbed the wheel and

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took off. This was ultimately ruled an

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accident, and Moon was cleared of any

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wrongdoing, although it haunted the

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drummer for the rest of his life.

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>> Where are you?

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still didn't answer my question,

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>> you were sort of lost in thought when I

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came in. What about

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>> maybe I was trying to be one of your

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grandmother's chipsies.

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Read the future in the flames.

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>> 4 months after leading a military coup

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against Libya's kingdom al Gaddafi is

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declared premier of Libya by the

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government he just created. Funny how

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that works out. Gaddafi was an army

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captain and fierce Arab nationalist who

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sought to purge Libya of Western

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influence, removing US and British

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military bases from the country and

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deporting Libyans with Italian and

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Jewish heritage within his first year of

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power. The controversial dictator

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remained in power for just over 40 years

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until he would be captured and killed by

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members of Libya's National Liberation

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first Libyan civil war. It's safe to say

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his popularity rating had dropped some

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in the intervening years.

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>> This isn't a hospital. It's an insane

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and it's your fault because you don't do

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anything to discourage them.

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>> What do you want me to do?

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>> Put them under arrest. See what a court

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marshal think to their drunkenism.

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Famed folk pop duo Simon and Garfuncle

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released their final studio album,

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Bridge Over Troubled Water, on January

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26th before splitting up for good later

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that year. Their swan song, considered

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by many to be the pair's best, went on

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to become one of the bestselling albums

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of all time with over 25 million copies

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sold worldwide. That's a whole lot of

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wax. Speaking of landmark albums, the

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Jackson 5's first single, I Want You

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Back, reached the number one spot on the

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Billboard Hot 100 on January 31st. Fresh

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off their history making appearance on

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the Ed Sullivan Show in December.

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>> Here's the youthful Jackson vibe,

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opening with a medley of their hits that

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have sold over a million. The group

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released three other number one singles

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that year, ABC, The Love You Save, and

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I'll Be There, making them the first

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recording artists in history to have

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their first four singles reached the top

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spot. Flash forward to October 7th,

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1971, when the group's magnetic lead

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singer, Michael Jackson, released his

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first single as a solo artist, Got to Be

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There, when he was just 13 years old.

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>> We'll be right back.

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Give me a give me a when I'm eating.

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Okay. I'm going to eat a dog.

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>> What's that spell?

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>> I hate it. Going to eat an apple.

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>> I want you to remember that no bastard

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ever won war by dying for his country.

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You want it

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by making the other poor dumb bastard

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die for his country.

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>> The legendary heavy metal band Black

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Sabbath released their self-titled debut

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album on February 13th, introducing the

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world to their colorful frontman Azie

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Osborne for the first time.

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>> We like the name Black Sabbath. So,

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>> we just like the name, you know.

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>> Why did you pick the name in the first

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place?

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>> Why did the Beatles pick the Beatles?

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You know, nobody knows. According to the

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band's guitarist, Tony Iomi, the album

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was recorded in one day during a single

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12-hour session. Black Sabbath's debut

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is widely considered to be the first

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heavy metal album and one of the most

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influential records of the 20th century.

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Chicago.

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>> The Chicago 7, the name given to the men

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standing trial for allegedly inciting a

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riot during antivietnam protests at the

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Democratic National Convention in August

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of 1968, were found innocent on charges

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of conspiracy on February 18th. Renie

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Hayden, Abby Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and

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Lee Winer were all acquitted.

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>> The judge knows that the only one who's

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in contempt of his court is Julius

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Hoffman. We're going to have

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demonstrations at local courts across

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this country.

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>> The last witness was a rebuttal to

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Reny's testimony. It was hysterical. He

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didn't see any defendant day. He didn't

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see anybody on a bullhorn yelling kill a

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pig. Nothing. Where's their case? I've

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seen more evidence in a case of scotch.

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Davis, Dinger, Hayden, Hoffman, and

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Ruben were convicted of crossing state

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lines to start a riot. But those

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convictions, along with several others

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for contempt of court, were eventually

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reversed. In late March, the United

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States detonated its 500th nuclear

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device since dropping atomic bombs on

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 as part

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of its ongoing nuclear testing program.

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America would set off more than 1,000

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nuclear explosions before a moratorum

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was placed on testing by President

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George HW Bush. In October 2nd, 1992,

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President Clinton extended the

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moratorium and signed the comprehensive

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nuclear testban treaty in 1996. The

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treaty will constrain any nation from

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improving its existing nuclear arsenal

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and end the development of advanced

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nuclear weapons and help to stop their

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spread. The treaty has yet to be

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ratified by Congress. Not that we're

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going to start setting off nukes again.

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We just like to keep our options open.

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At the end of March, jazz legend Miles

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Davis released his 27th studio album,

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[ __ ] Brew. The album would go on to

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become Davis's highest charting, topping

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out at number 35, and would earn him the

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first gold record of his career. To

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date, Bitch's Brew is regarded as one of

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the best jazz albums ever recorded. On

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April 1st, President Richard Nixon

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signed a bill banning cigarette

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advertising on radio and television.

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>> Hey, how would you like to have a phone

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like that?

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>> Great. Then I can see you all the time.

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Don't settle for some of the taste. Some

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of the time

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really gives you all the taste all the

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time.

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To the woe of the tobacco industry, this

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was not an April Fool's joke.

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>> Phil Morris Company has bought all

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commercial time on the first half hour

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of all the network talk shows tonight.

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That is the last half hour on which it

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is legal to sell cigarettes on radio or

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television in the United States. It

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marks, as we like to say, the end of an

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era. Regulation of the tobacco industry

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had ramped up following increasingly

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alarming health studies linking smoking

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to cancer, heart disease, and birth

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defects, including a report by the

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Surgeon General linking smoking to low

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birth weight. The last televised

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cigarette ad ran on January 1st, 1971 at

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11:50 p.m. during the Johnny Carson

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Show. The hearts of millions of Beatle

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maniacs around the world were shattered

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on April 10th when Paul McCartney

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officially announced his departure from

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the Beatles. In the spirit of the

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well-known tensions that had steadily

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developed between the bandmates,

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McCartney revealed he would no longer be

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working with the rest of the Fab 4 in a

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press release promoting the impending

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release of his solo album McCartney. The

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release took the form of a fictional QandA

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featuring questions reportedly written

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mostly by Sir Paul himself. Despite the

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fact that neither the general public nor

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the rest of the Beatles themselves

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initially knew how seriously to take

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McCartney's announcement, it turned out

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to be the real deal. The band never

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reunited. Keeping it real classy, Sir

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Paul. One day later, Apollo 13 embarked

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on its ill- fated voyage to the moon. 2

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days into the mission, an oxygen tank at

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the command module failed, forcing the

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crew, Jim Levelvel, Fred Hayes, and Jack

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Swagard to abandon their planned lunar

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landing.

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>> All right, Houston. We've had a problem.

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Over the next 3 days, the entire nation

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held its breath as NASA mission control

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worked tirelessly in a race against time

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to bring the three astronauts home. The

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crew finally returned safely to Earth,

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thanks to some DIY ingenuity that would

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have made MacGyver proud.

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>> The men of Apollo 13 epitomize the

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character that accepts danger and

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surmounts it. Theirs is the spirit that

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build America. Flash forward to June

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30th, 1995, when director Ron Howard's

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blockbuster film about the unforgettable

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mission was released in theaters.

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>> Houston, we have a problem.

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>> The appropriately titled Apollo 13 went

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on to become the second highest grossing

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movie of 1995 and was nominated for nine

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Oscars.

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>> We'll be right back.

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[Music]

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>> Introducing the G.I. Joe Spacematic.

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Spacematic, the futuristic space vehicle

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you program yourself. Program it to lift

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or to scoop or use the magnetic pickup.

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>> Watch this. Way to go, Joe.

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>> GI Joe Spacematic from Hasbro.

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Moving into May, America watched in

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horror as 28 National Guardsmen fired

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into a crowd of unarmed students at

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Ohio's Kent State University, killing

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four and wounding nine others, leaving

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one victim permanently paralyzed.

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>> Leave this area immediately.

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>> The National Guard had been deployed 2

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days earlier in response to escalating

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student protests against the Vietnam

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War. The guardsmen, armed with tear gas

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and bayonetated rifles, first ordered

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the demonstrators to disperse before

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firing into the crowd without warning.

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The event sparked widespread outrage and

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demonstrations on college campuses

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across America. Ultimately, a federal

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court dropped all charges against the

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National Guard troops responsible for

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the shootings. The Beatles final studio

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album, Let It Be, was released on May

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8th, just a few weeks after the news of

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their unofficial official breakup left

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millions of fans confused. The album,

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released alongside a documentary film of

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the same name, was met with an equally

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mild response, earning the group some of

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the most mediocre reviews of their

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career. Despite its lukewarm initial

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reception, Let It Be won the Fab 4 and

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Academy Award for best original song

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score the following year.

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>> On their behalf, thank you very much.

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>> and has since been reappraised by fans

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and critics alike as the Beatles most

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underrated album. The band's tense

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rehearsal sessions were captured on film

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for the documentary and later repurposed

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by none other than Peter Jackson in an

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8-hour documentary series about the

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creation of the album titled The

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Beatles. Get back. Leave it to Peter

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Jackson to turn an 80-minute movie into

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an epic. Maybe one day he can do the

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reverse to those Hobbit movies. Staying

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with music, founding Fleetwood Mac

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guitarist Peter Green walked away from

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the band following a final performance

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on May 20th. to join a German commune he

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discovered a few months earlier. Green

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had been invited to a party at the

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commune by model and actress Ushi Uber.

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Green decided he didn't want to leave.

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Band mate Mick Fleetwood and two

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Fleetwood Matt Rodies had to literally

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drag him away to complete the rest of

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their European tour.

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>> John is to this day absolutely furious

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with these people. Call them the German

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jetet and they captured Peter

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completely.

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>> Hey, it was the ' 70s. You might wander

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off and join a cult was just an

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occupational hazard for musicians. In

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fact, flash forward to March of 1971

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when guitarist Jeremy Spencer went out

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to get a magazine while Fleetwood Mack

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was in California to play a series of

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shows at the Whiskey Agogo and never

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returned. Spencer left to join the

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infamous Children of God cult, now known

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as the Family International. He remains

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a member to this day. That's one way to

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avoid the drama of making rumors.

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>> Who do you think you're talking to?

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drunk kid that fixes bicycles. I know

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every inch of the 707. Take the wings

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off this and you could use it as a tank.

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This plane is built to withstand

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anything except a bad pilot.

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>> All right, hold it. Hold it. This kind

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of talk will get us nowhere.

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>> In late May, Detroit Tigers outfielder

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Al Kaline suffered one of sport's most

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bizarre injuries during a game against

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the Milwaukee Brewers. While running to

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catch a flyball, Kaline collided with

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teammate Jim Northrup so violently that

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he actually swallowed his tongue. Kaline

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collapsed on the field unable to

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breathe. His teeth were clenched so

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tightly that Milwaukey's bullpen coach

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Jackie Moore was unable to force his

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mouth open. Luckily, left fielder and

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renowned slugger Willie Horton had the

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Hulk strength necessary to pry Kaline's

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jaws open and clear his airway, leaving

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Horton with scars on his hand. Kaline

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ultimately only missed one game, and

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Horton was presented with a Michigan

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Heart Association Award for his actions.

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>> We'll be right back.

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[Music]

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Come on. Come on. Come on. The Pepsi way

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la and have a Pepsi day. You found a

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place to celebrate. Pepsi's cold food is

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great.

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Come on. Have a Pepsi day. You're the

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Pepsi generation.

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Pepsi

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day.

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On June 20th, UCLA fired assistant

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professor of philosophy Angela Davis for

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the second time. This firing was for her

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use of inflammatory language in speeches

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about the handling of the People's Park

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rally the previous summer in which she

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characterized the police as pigs and the

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university regents as killers and

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murderers.

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>> Three weeks ago, there were pigs on the

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campus attacking everybody they saw. The

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People's Park rally deviated from its

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topic of the Arab-Israeli conflict into

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a protest, which turned into a park

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takeover in which police fired shotguns

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into crowds of demonstrators, ending the

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life of one and injuring dozens more.

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The college had previously terminated

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Davis's employment back in September of

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1969 because she was a member of the

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Communist Party. Davis was also an

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activist and member of the Black

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Panthers, which will matter when we fast

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forward to October 13th, 1970 when Davis

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was arrested after a two-month manhunt

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for her connection to the Marin County

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Civic Center domestic terrorist attack

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on August 7th using three guns owned by

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Davis, one of which was a shotgun she

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had purchased just 2 days before. Four

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men took five hostages from a courtroom,

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including Superior Court Judge Harold

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Haley. They demanded the release of

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three black inmates who were on trial

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for the stabbing of a white prison

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guard. Three of the kidnappers and the

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judge were killed. Davis spent 16 months

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in prison awaiting her trial, but was

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eventually acquitted of any crime. She

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continues her activism to this day.

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[Music]

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Here we go with the top 40 hits in the

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nation this week on American Top 40.

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This is Casey Kasem in Hollywood. The

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syndicated radio countdown show American

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Top 40 with Casey Kasem aired its first

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episode on the 4th of July. A show in

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which casem counted down the top 40

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Billboard singles of the week became a

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staple of American culture for the next

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several decades. All right, all you

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dream analysts, turn up the sound.

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Here's Eric Burton with his new group

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called War. And the song is called Spill

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the Wine.

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>> Casemous voice is what we think of when

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we hear the words top 40 DJ. He walked

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so Carson Daly and Ryan Serest could

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run. Incidentally, Serest is the current

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host of American Top 40, which he took

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over from a retiring Kasem in 2004. In

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addition to the radio, you might

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recognize Kasem as the original voice of

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Shaggy on Scooby-Doo.

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>> I'm so scared. I wish I had a ham

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sandwich to calm my nerves.

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>> A character he played for roughly 40

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years. A week later, Norwegian

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ethnologist Thor Hired Doll completed

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his trip across the Atlantic, sailing

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from Morocco to Barbados in a raft in 57

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days. The trip was an effort to prove

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Hired Doll's theory that the ancient

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Egyptians and other ancient

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Mediterranean civilizations actually

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sailed to America and exchanged trade

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and culture with the people in Central

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and South America. Hierdall's raft, the

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Rawu, was constructed of papyrus and

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modeled after Egyptian sailing vessels

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of the period. Despite successfully

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completing the 4,000mi journey, his

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theory is still not accepted by most

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anthropologists.

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>> Well, several things have been proven.

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Uh, one of them is definitely that the

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Papitus vessel is seawwarding.

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>> You go on a 57-day raft trip and you get

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nothing. That's got to stink. The music

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world was shot when Jimmyi Hendricks,

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one of rock's most towering icons, died

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suddenly on September 18th at the age of

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27. During his short career, Hrix

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flailed his electric guitar into some of

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the most unusual sounds of an unusual

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music.

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>> An astonishing performer whose onstage

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gyrations could make Elvis Presley look

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like a PE teacher.

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>> Sadly, Hrix wouldn't be the only

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27-year-old talent that would be lost in

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1970. Just a few weeks later, rock

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legend Janice Joplain passed on October

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4th at the age of 27. Joplain was in Los

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Angeles recording her upcoming album

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Pearl when she was found unresponsive in

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her hotel room after missing a recording

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session. The passing of both Hendricks

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and Joplain, coupled with the deaths of

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blues musician Alan Blind Owl Wilson

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earlier that September and Rolling

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Stones guitarist Brian Jones a few years

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earlier marked the unofficial beginning

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of the infamous 27 Club. In September,

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some now iconic TV shows debuted.

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>> So, here I am in Minneapolis. New life,

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new job. Well, not a new job yet. First,

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I had to go on an interview at a local

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TV station.

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>> The job that's open as associate

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producer.

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>> I like it. Let's go see producer.

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>> Mary's making new friends. Make yourself

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at home on Tuesday.

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>> You can't do this whole room without

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bothering you. It won't cost me a scent.

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I'm going to sell the old furniture to

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buy new. You won't touch anything in my

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room. Have I ever?

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>> You won't be.

544
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Hey kids, Hollywood Boulevard.

545
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>> If anyone had told me four months ago

546
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that I'd be driving an old school bus

547
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filled with my five children and a large

548
00:20:23,679 --> 00:20:25,520
dog through Hollywood, I'd have thought

549
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they were crazy.

550
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>> Ladies and gentlemen, America's latest

551
00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:32,880
success story, the Partridge Family.

552
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>> The Door's front man, Jim Morrison, was

553
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convicted of indecent exposure and

554
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profanity on September 20th. The charges

555
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stemmed from a 1969 concert in Miami

556
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during which Morrison allegedly used

557
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some swear words and may or may not have

558
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dropped his pants. Morrison was

559
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sentenced to 6 months in jail and a $500

560
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fine for the scandalous incident. To

561
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this day, Door's bandmates maintain

562
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Morrison's pants stayed on.

563
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>> This is PBS, the public broadcasting

564
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service.

565
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>> PBS began operations as a US television

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network on the 5th. The nonprofit

567
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organization dedicated to highquality

568
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educational programming has been the

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broadcast home of beloved children's

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shows like Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers

571
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Neighborhood, and The Magic School Bus,

572
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as well as stuffier grown-up shows like

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Masterpiece Theater, and Downtown Abbey,

574
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which have way less puppets. Gary

575
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Trudeau's satirical political comic

576
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strip Dunesbury made its debut in

577
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newspapers on October 26th. The

578
00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:31,360
scathingly topical cartoon became the

579
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first daily comic strip to win a Puliter

580
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Prize for the strip titled Stonewall,

581
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published on August 12th, 1974 that took

582
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aim at the then unfolding Watergate

583
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scandal. Although Dunesberry has gone on

584
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several hiatuses, Trudeau continues to

585
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publish new strips half a century later,

586
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continuing to prove that comic strips

587
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don't have to be funny. On November 4th,

588
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the nation was stunned by the discovery

589
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of Jeanie, a 13-year-old girl who had

590
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grown up in almost total isolation. Mr.

591
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Wy, why did you keep your daughter in a

592
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room?

593
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>> Mr. Wy has no comment.

594
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>> The abuse was so severe that Jeanie had

595
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no concept of language. When her mother

596
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finally got her out of the house,

597
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Jeanie's developmental age was similar

598
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to that of an infants. Jeanie became of

599
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war to the state and although her case

600
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initially received widespread attention,

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she never made a significant recovery

602
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and her current whereabouts are unknown.

603
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Tragedy struck again on November 14th

604
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when a jet carrying the Marshall

605
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University football team crashed in

606
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Kenova, West Virginia. The team had been

607
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returning from a loss to East Carolina

608
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University when the plane struck some

609
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trees during its approach to the

610
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tri-state airport and crashed. Everyone

611
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on board perished, including 37 players,

612
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the coach, and 25 team boosters. The

613
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devastating loss nearly resulted in

614
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Marshall suspending its football program

615
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indefinitely. Flash forward to December

616
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22nd, 2006 when the film We Are Marshall

617
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debuted. The movie stars Matthew McConna

618
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and a PMCU Anthony Mackey. Chicainery

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was up in the air on December 5th when

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the Stanley Cup, the Khan Smite trophy,

621
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and the Bill Masterson trophy were all

622
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stolen during a break-in at the Hockey

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Hall of Fame in Toronto. Luckily, the

624
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Stanley Cup was only a replica, but the

625
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,960
other two trophies were very real. The

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trophies were unceremoniously returned

627
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just a few weeks later when the thieves

628
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left them in the driveway of a Toronto

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police officer after discovering that as

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far as ransom goes, the trophies were

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basically worthless.

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One of the oddest meetings in White

633
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House history occurred on December 21st

634
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when Elvis Presley paid President

635
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Richard Nixon a visit in the Oval

636
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Office. The king of rock and roll

637
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dropped in on Nixon to offer his

638
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services as an anti-drug spokesman,

639
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showing up at the White House gates

640
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unannounced. The Secret Service didn't

641
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:47,200
bother to search the king. If they had,

642
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they would have discovered the antique

643
00:23:48,559 --> 00:23:51,200
Colt 45 pistol Presley carried inside,

644
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which he presented to Nixon as a gift.

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It's good to be king, just for a while.

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The famous photograph of their strange

647
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conversation is the single most

648
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requested image from the National

649
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Archives. And that's how 1970 ended,

650
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with a historic meeting of two rulers,

651
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neither of whom would reign much longer.

652
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1971 was right around the corner,

653
00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:13,600
bringing the demise of several more

654
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,159
musical icons and the conviction of one

655
00:24:16,159 --> 00:24:18,159
of the 20th century's most notorious

656
00:24:18,159 --> 00:24:20,240
criminals. And Dirty Harry would begin

657
00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:23,279
patrolling cinema streets. Jeez, the 70s

658
00:24:23,279 --> 00:24:25,600
need to lighten up, but that is for next

659
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,279
year. Coming soon, 1971.

660
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The 70s got off to a rough start. 1971

661
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,279
was still bogged down with tragedy,

662
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civil unrest, and sinister omens of the

663
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years to come. But there was still

664
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plenty of time for some classic records,

665
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,679
some unlikely new television heroes, and

666
00:24:43,679 --> 00:24:45,760
the second coming of the happiest place

667
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on Earth. We're going to talk about the

668
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news, culture, sports, and

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entertainment, and all that was weird in

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the 70s. This is Timeline.

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[Music]

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Get ready for the end of one crime of

673
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the century and the beginning of another

674
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because this episode we're talking 1971.

675
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Now time to give all those other years

676
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the hairy eye and get down with 1971.

677
00:25:16,640 --> 00:25:18,480
>> It marks, as we like to say, the end of

678
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an era. The ban on television and radio

679
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,880
ads for cigarettes signed by President

680
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Nixon the previous year went into effect

681
00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:27,600
on New Year's Day, bidding a fond

682
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,919
farewell to the days of Fred Flintstone

683
00:25:29,919 --> 00:25:32,559
taking long, flavorful drags off a

684
00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:33,760
carton of Winston's.

685
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:35,840
>> I got a better idea. Let's take a

686
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:37,840
Winston break. Winston's got that

687
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:38,960
filter.

688
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,880
>> 4 days later, former heavyweight champ

689
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:42,880
Sunny Liston was discovered in his home

690
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:44,960
by his wife Gerald Dean. Although his

691
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,600
death was ruled an accidental overdose,

692
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,520
there were signs of a possible struggle

693
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,360
and questions about what may have really

694
00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:53,679
happened remain to this day. A legendary

695
00:25:53,679 --> 00:25:56,640
figure in boxing, ironically, Lon's most

696
00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,799
famous fight was a seventhround loss in

697
00:25:58,799 --> 00:26:01,520
1964 when the heavily favored champion

698
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,840
lost his title to an upandcomer named

699
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:04,960
Cashious Clay.

700
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,720
>> They might be straddling it. That might

701
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:08,640
be all, ladies and gentlemen. Get up

702
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,120
there, Joe. Get up there. Get up in the

703
00:26:11,120 --> 00:26:14,320
ring. from Television City in Hollywood.

704
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:18,400
>> Boy, the way Glen Miller played

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00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,230
>> songs.

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[Music]

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Guys like us, we had it made.

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00:26:27,250 --> 00:26:28,960
[Music]

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00:26:28,960 --> 00:26:31,200
>> Charles Manson and three girl members of

710
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:33,440
his so-called family, all were found

711
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,600
guilty of murder in the first degree.

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00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:37,840
The end of January closed the book on

713
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,159
one of the 20th century's most notorious

714
00:26:40,159 --> 00:26:42,559
crimes when Charles Manson was convicted

715
00:26:42,559 --> 00:26:44,799
of his involvement in the Tate Labianca

716
00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:47,360
murders on January 25th. Manson and

717
00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:49,360
three of his followers, Susan Atkins,

718
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:52,080
Patricia Krenwinkle, and Leslie Vanhton,

719
00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:53,840
were sentenced to death for the brutal

720
00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:55,679
slayings that took the lives of six

721
00:26:55,679 --> 00:26:58,080
people, but their sentences were reduced

722
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to life in prison following a temporary

723
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ban on capital punishment in the state

724
00:27:01,919 --> 00:27:04,240
of California. Manson famously modeled

725
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:05,840
part of his twisted worldview on the

726
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,600
lyrics to the Beatles song Helter

727
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,440
Skelter. Wonder how hard he took the Fab

728
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,760
Four's breakup. A similar fate awaited

729
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,840
Manson's fourth co-conspirator later

730
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,080
that year when Tex Watson was convicted

731
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,159
of seven counts of first-degree homicide

732
00:27:18,159 --> 00:27:20,480
on October 12th. Watson had been tried

733
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:22,400
separately after fleeing to Texas and

734
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,159
fighting extradition for several months

735
00:27:24,159 --> 00:27:26,159
following his arrest. Texas currently

736
00:27:26,159 --> 00:27:28,720
serving a life sentence. Elsewhere in

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00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,520
Crime and Punishment, NYPD officer Frank

738
00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:33,360
Serpico was shot during a bust on

739
00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:35,840
February 3rd. Despite being severely

740
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,240
wounded, his fellow officers refused a

741
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,559
radio for help and a random civilian

742
00:27:40,559 --> 00:27:42,080
called the ambulance that ultimately

743
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,320
saved his life. Serpico had gained

744
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,400
notoriety as a whistleblower calling out

745
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:48,320
police corruption. And his shooting

746
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,559
became a national news story as details

747
00:27:50,559 --> 00:27:52,720
came out suggesting Serpico's fellow

748
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:54,559
officers tried to off him in

749
00:27:54,559 --> 00:27:56,960
retaliation. It became such a story that

750
00:27:56,960 --> 00:27:59,279
it was made into a movie two years later

751
00:27:59,279 --> 00:28:01,600
starring Alpuccino as the hero cop.

752
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,200
>> I'm an officer. I'm a police officer.

753
00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:04,720
>> Jesus Frank, how was I supposed to

754
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:05,679
recognize you?

755
00:28:05,679 --> 00:28:07,919
>> Believe it or not, JC Penney was a real

756
00:28:07,919 --> 00:28:10,000
guy and he kicked off the affordably

757
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:12,480
priced bucket on February 12th. James

758
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,720
Cash Penny founded the department store

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00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,000
chain in 1902 in Keer, Wyoming, and

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00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,440
stayed involved with the company until

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his passing at the ripe bold age of 95.

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00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,399
According to popular legend, he once

763
00:28:24,399 --> 00:28:26,320
personally trained a young employee the

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00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:27,919
most efficient way to gift wrap

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00:28:27,919 --> 00:28:30,799
packages. The employees name Sam Walton,

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the future founder of Walmart. Vice

767
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,919
president and future Nixon Fall Guy

768
00:28:35,919 --> 00:28:38,000
Spiru Agnu injured two people after

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hitting two T-shots into the crowd

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during a golf game the day before

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Valentine's Day. Agnu was playing a

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foresome with pro golfer Doug Sanders,

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00:28:45,919 --> 00:28:47,760
screen legend Bob Hope, and baseball

774
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great Willie Mays. More on Willie later.

775
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,399
The vice president sliced his first shot

776
00:28:52,399 --> 00:28:54,640
of the day and struck an elderly man and

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00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,720
his wife. Then he teed up his second

778
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:59,279
shot and sliced again. This time hitting

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00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:01,120
a woman in the ankle and sending her to

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00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,039
the hospital. Bagu managed to play the

781
00:29:03,039 --> 00:29:04,720
rest of the game without injuring anyone

782
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:06,960
else. But nailing three spectators with

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00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,120
two consecutive T-shots is admittedly

784
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,120
kind of impressive. This incident of

785
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,039
weaponized vice presidents wouldn't be

786
00:29:13,039 --> 00:29:15,520
topped until 34 years later when Dick

787
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:17,600
Cheney shot a 78-year-old lawyer in the

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face during a hunting trip. Luckily, the

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man's injuries weren't serious because

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no one could agree on how much beer had

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been present at the time of the

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incident.

793
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>> Butterfield, are you aware of the

794
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installation of any listening devices in

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the Oval Office of the president?

796
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:31,840
>> A day after the golfing incident, Nixon

797
00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:33,679
had a secret taping system installed in

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the White House. Nixon had grown

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increasingly paranoid and demanded

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constant surveillance of every

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conversation that took place in the Oval

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Office, his executive office, and his

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office at Camp David, as well as several

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phone lines. It was the beginning of the

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00:29:46,559 --> 00:29:48,480
Watergate scandal, which will continue

806
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,559
to play out in the next episode. No

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spoilers.

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00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:53,840
>> The Watergate scandal became a whole new

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00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:54,640
ball game.

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00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,720
>> Moving into March, the Door's frontman,

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00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,799
Jim Morrison, left the United States for

812
00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:00,960
the last time on March 11th. Morrison

813
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,039
packed his bags and left for Paris. The

814
00:30:03,039 --> 00:30:05,279
Lizard King was trying to avoid a Miami

815
00:30:05,279 --> 00:30:07,279
jail sentence stemming from his indecent

816
00:30:07,279 --> 00:30:08,799
exposure conviction the previous

817
00:30:08,799 --> 00:30:10,960
September. The story of one of rock's

818
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:13,200
most iconic performers would end just a

819
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,360
few short months later when Morrison

820
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,600
passed away in the city of light on July

821
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,720
3rd at age 27. The 1970s had another

822
00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:23,039
member to the infamous 27 club.

823
00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:25,200
Morrison's official cause of death was

824
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,360
heart failure, although no autopsy was

825
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,360
performed. 2 weeks after Morrison left

826
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:31,520
on his ill- fated trip, late night King

827
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:33,520
Ed Sullivan aired the final episode of

828
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,000
his hugely influential variety show. By

829
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:38,000
the reception here, you've been fine.

830
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,480
Now get home safely. Good night.

831
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,000
>> The final episode of The Ed Sullivan

832
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,760
Show went out over the airwaves on March

833
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:45,840
28th. Sullivan helped launch the careers

834
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:47,440
of some of the 20th century's biggest

835
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:49,840
entertainment legends, including Elvis,

836
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,240
the Beatles, and Michael Jackson. Not a

837
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,080
bad run if he could only have held out

838
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:55,440
for Billy Isish.

839
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:57,039
>> When people started getting so

840
00:30:57,039 --> 00:30:58,559
interested in black folks,

841
00:30:58,559 --> 00:31:00,000
>> how many men were in the ambush?

842
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,760
>> You were pretty good news to me slapping

843
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:02,960
up on some white cops.

844
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:04,960
>> I want them. Do you hear? And I want

845
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,520
them now.

846
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,880
We'll be right back.

847
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:12,399
>> What are you doing here?

848
00:31:12,399 --> 00:31:13,760
>> I want to take your picture.

849
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,000
>> I can't come down. I'm studying.

850
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,440
>> Well, that's okay. I can take it from

851
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,399
here. The new Kodak teleinatic camera.

852
00:31:20,399 --> 00:31:23,440
>> National Public Radio or NPR aired its

853
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,440
first broadcast a month later on April

854
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,520
27th. The not for-profit radio news

855
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,279
organization was created by Congress's

856
00:31:29,279 --> 00:31:32,000
Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, which

857
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:33,520
determined that it was in the public

858
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:35,200
interest for the government to encourage

859
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:36,640
the growth and development of

860
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,240
nonprofitformational,

861
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:40,559
educational, and cultural broadcasting.

862
00:31:40,559 --> 00:31:42,960
Just a few weeks later, NPR broadcast

863
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:44,799
the first episode of its flagship

864
00:31:44,799 --> 00:31:47,200
newscast, All Things Considered, which

865
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:49,200
still airs to this day, Monday through

866
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:50,080
Friday.

867
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,279
>> You know what I think I'm going to do

868
00:31:51,279 --> 00:31:55,600
then? Just for the hell of it, tell me.

869
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,679
I'm going to take this right foot

870
00:31:59,679 --> 00:32:02,000
and I'm going to whoop you up that side

871
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,360
of your face.

872
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:09,640
>> Really? Really?

873
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:13,039
>> On May 21st, Marvin Gay released his

874
00:32:13,039 --> 00:32:15,279
landmark album, What's Going On? The

875
00:32:15,279 --> 00:32:17,279
soulful concept album is told from the

876
00:32:17,279 --> 00:32:18,799
point of view of a veteran returning

877
00:32:18,799 --> 00:32:20,640
home from the Vietnam War to a country

878
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,880
rife with intolerance and injustice and

879
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,039
featured hit songs like Mercy Mercy Me,

880
00:32:25,039 --> 00:32:27,120
Inner City Blues, and the title track

881
00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:29,360
What's Going On. The album was partially

882
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,120
inspired by letters Gay received from

883
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:33,200
his brother Frankie, who was drafted at

884
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,600
age 25. What's Going On has been hailed

885
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,519
by both critics and musicians alike as

886
00:32:37,519 --> 00:32:40,080
one of the best albums ever recorded.

887
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,720
What's going on?

888
00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:44,480
What's going on?

889
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,000
>> Just a few short months after watching

890
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:47,760
the vice president devastate some

891
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:49,840
unsuspecting voters at a golf game,

892
00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:51,760
baseball legend Willie Mays hit his

893
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,159
638th career home run with the San

894
00:32:54,159 --> 00:32:55,279
Francisco Giants.

895
00:32:55,279 --> 00:32:57,760
>> There's a swing back

896
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,960
and it by

897
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:02,720
>> setting the National League record of

898
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:06,559
1,950 runs scored on May 30th. Maize had

899
00:33:06,559 --> 00:33:08,720
turned 40 earlier that month and had

900
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,240
started playing for the Giants back in

901
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,120
1951, but his time in San Francisco and

902
00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,039
in Major League Baseball was winding

903
00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:16,799
down. Maize would be traded to the New

904
00:33:16,799 --> 00:33:18,720
York Mets, where he finished out his

905
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:21,360
iconic career a year later. Returning to

906
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,760
the world of music, about 1,000 Grateful

907
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,760
Dead fans drank apple cider spiked with

908
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,240
LSD during a concert on May 31st.

909
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,960
Whoopsies. And presumably took a long,

910
00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:33,279
strange trip to the venue's bathroom. A

911
00:33:33,279 --> 00:33:34,880
little over 30 concert goers got

912
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,399
themselves checked out at a nearby

913
00:33:36,399 --> 00:33:38,399
hospital, but no one was hospitalized by

914
00:33:38,399 --> 00:33:40,960
the incident. So, if Ben andor Jerry is

915
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,880
watching, they might get an idea for a

916
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,320
new ingredient to spice up Cherry

917
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:45,120
Garcia.

918
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:46,640
>> Hi, I'm Ben. I'm Jerry.

919
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,279
>> An LSD ice cream. He is very powerful

920
00:33:49,279 --> 00:33:50,320
stuff.

921
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,559
>> Where are my matters?

922
00:33:52,559 --> 00:33:54,240
I didn't even introduce myself to you,

923
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,799
gentlemen.

924
00:33:56,799 --> 00:34:01,440
>> My name is John Shaft. Freeze. The day

925
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:03,840
after Independence Day, President Nixon

926
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:06,240
ratified the 26th Amendment, which

927
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,560
lowered the legal voting age from 21 to

928
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,639
18. The amendment was partially in

929
00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:12,399
response to criticism of the Vietnam

930
00:34:12,399 --> 00:34:14,159
War, in which the average American

931
00:34:14,159 --> 00:34:16,879
serviceman was 19 years old. The slogan,

932
00:34:16,879 --> 00:34:18,960
old enough to fight, old enough to vote,

933
00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:20,879
became a popular chant for activists

934
00:34:20,879 --> 00:34:22,560
leading up to the amendment. The

935
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:24,720
following day, music legend Louis

936
00:34:24,720 --> 00:34:28,079
Armstrong passed away at age 69. After a

937
00:34:28,079 --> 00:34:30,240
career spanning nearly 50 years, the

938
00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:32,079
jazz trumpeter's trademark grally

939
00:34:32,079 --> 00:34:33,760
singing voice remains one of the most

940
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:35,599
recognized in the history of popular

941
00:34:35,599 --> 00:34:37,599
music. And his signature hit, What a

942
00:34:37,599 --> 00:34:39,440
Wonderful World, is still in regular

943
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,359
rotation. Ironically, often in

944
00:34:41,359 --> 00:34:43,679
depressing movie montages. Moving into

945
00:34:43,679 --> 00:34:45,520
August, the summer came to a close with

946
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,040
the death of SeaWorld's flagship

947
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,280
performer, Shamu the Killer Whale. In

948
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,040
case you never did the math yourself,

949
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,280
SeaWorld's famed mascot, Shamu, isn't

950
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:55,679
one impossibly elderly killer whale, but

951
00:34:55,679 --> 00:34:57,040
actually a name given to several

952
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,720
different orcas over the years. The

953
00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:00,800
original Shamu was a female captured as

954
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,839
a juvenile and sold to SeaWorld in 1966.

955
00:35:03,839 --> 00:35:05,680
But Shamu experienced a rapid and

956
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,359
shocking decline in the months leading

957
00:35:07,359 --> 00:35:09,760
up to her death. On April 20th, Shamu

958
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,839
attacked a SeaWorld employee named Anne

959
00:35:11,839 --> 00:35:14,560
Godsy during a televised stunt, grabbing

960
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:16,400
the woman in her jaws and repeatedly

961
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,400
dragging her underwater. It was a

962
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,320
harrowing incident that would be echoed

963
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,520
decades later in February 2010 when

964
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:25,520
SeaWorld trainer Don Brancho was

965
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:28,480
attacked and killed by a 12,000lb orca

966
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,880
named Tikcom during a performance. The

967
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,200
attack was the basis for the 2013

968
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,920
documentary Blackfish. Just over 2 weeks

969
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:37,920
later, prisoners seized control of the

970
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:39,920
maximum security Attekica Correctional

971
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,000
Facility outside of Buffalo, New York.

972
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,880
Over,200 inmates captured an exercise

973
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,040
yard and held 39 guards and prison

974
00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,680
employees hostage for 4 days until

975
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:51,760
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller finally

976
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,760
instructed state police to retake the

977
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,160
prison by force. When the dust settled,

978
00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,119
of the 39 inmates and hostages who died,

979
00:35:59,119 --> 00:36:00,960
all but four were slain by police

980
00:36:00,960 --> 00:36:03,280
gunfire, and 89 others were injured.

981
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,359
>> The 4-day insurrection at New York's

982
00:36:05,359 --> 00:36:08,000
Attica State Prison came to a tragic end

983
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:10,320
this morning. Negotiations gave way to

984
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,640
force, making this the bloodiest prison

985
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,560
incident the country has seen in four

986
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:15,359
decades.

987
00:36:15,359 --> 00:36:17,760
>> On the same day as Atteka, former Beatle

988
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:20,079
John Lennon released his album, Imagine.

989
00:36:20,079 --> 00:36:21,839
The album was both a critical and

990
00:36:21,839 --> 00:36:23,760
commercial hit, earning the number one

991
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:25,359
spot on the Billboard charts and a

992
00:36:25,359 --> 00:36:27,599
double platinum certification, selling

993
00:36:27,599 --> 00:36:30,079
over 2 million copies. The title track

994
00:36:30,079 --> 00:36:31,440
would go on to become Lennin's

995
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,079
bestselling song as a solo artist and

996
00:36:34,079 --> 00:36:36,000
one of the most celebrated pop songs of

997
00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:38,560
the past half century. Two days later,

998
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,280
Soviet Premier Nikita Kruev passed away.

999
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,200
As the leader of the Soviet Union during

1000
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,440
the first decade of the Cold War, Kruev

1001
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,440
attempted to adopt a policy of peaceful

1002
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:49,440
coexistence with the United States,

1003
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,359
which did not earn him much love back

1004
00:36:51,359 --> 00:36:53,440
home. Although he did famously bang his

1005
00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:54,960
shoe on a table at a meeting of the

1006
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,400
United Nations to get everyone's

1007
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,320
attention. Surely that deserves some

1008
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,280
love. Kruev was forced to resign in 1964

1009
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:02,880
after the embarrassment of the Cuban

1010
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:04,800
missile crisis and spent the rest of his

1011
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,119
life in disgrace and isolation. No,

1012
00:37:07,119 --> 00:37:10,079
usually we meet in the lobby. Um, we

1013
00:37:10,079 --> 00:37:11,920
discuss the film there and I record

1014
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,760
their comments. Uh, that's all.

1015
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,119
>> Oh, you do it in the lobby?

1016
00:37:15,119 --> 00:37:15,839
>> Yes.

1017
00:37:15,839 --> 00:37:17,359
>> Oh, fine.

1018
00:37:17,359 --> 00:37:19,280
>> Heading into October, the happiest place

1019
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,119
on earth opened its doors for a second

1020
00:37:21,119 --> 00:37:23,119
time when Walt Disney World officially

1021
00:37:23,119 --> 00:37:24,960
admitted its first guest in Orlando,

1022
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,119
Florida on October 1st. The resort

1023
00:37:27,119 --> 00:37:29,119
opened with just the Magic Kingdom. But

1024
00:37:29,119 --> 00:37:31,040
half a century later, the assorted parks

1025
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:33,520
and attractions cover almost 25,000

1026
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,920
acres of Florida swamp land. The very

1027
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:37,839
first guests to be admitted to Walt

1028
00:37:37,839 --> 00:37:39,680
Disney World were the Windsor family,

1029
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:41,520
who were given a lifetime pass for free

1030
00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:43,359
admission. The cost of a ticket back

1031
00:37:43,359 --> 00:37:45,839
then was $ 350 for adults and $1 for

1032
00:37:45,839 --> 00:37:49,200
kids under 12 compared to $19 per day in

1033
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,760
2022. Those lifetime passes turned out

1034
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,640
to be a pretty sweet deal. Hey there and

1035
00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:56,240
welcome aboard. You're right on time for

1036
00:37:56,240 --> 00:37:58,000
another super slick ride on the Soul

1037
00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,839
Train. We'll get rolling with the

1038
00:37:59,839 --> 00:38:02,320
exciting stylistics right after this

1039
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:03,920
communication.

1040
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,030
We'll be right back.

1041
00:38:06,030 --> 00:38:07,440
[Music]

1042
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,960
>> Now from Milton Bradley, a weird game,

1043
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,920
Voice of the Mummy. Press the button.

1044
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,720
From within the tomb, the mummy speaks.

1045
00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:17,440
>> Out.

1046
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,280
>> All right, Popeye's here.

1047
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,040
>> Get your hands on your heads. Get off

1048
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:22,960
the barn. Get on the wall. Come on,

1049
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,640
battle. All right, come on. Face the

1050
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:26,320
window. Move. Face the wall. Turn around

1051
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:28,160
there. Turn around. Move. Andrew Lloyd

1052
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,240
Weber and Tim Rice's famous musical

1053
00:38:30,240 --> 00:38:32,400
Jesus Christ Superstar debuted on

1054
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,720
Broadway October 12th. The musical is a

1055
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:36,320
loose retelling of the gospel as a

1056
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,560
tongue-in-cheek rock opera, so it didn't

1057
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,560
generate any controversy whatsoever.

1058
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,079
Before they became the two biggest names

1059
00:38:42,079 --> 00:38:44,320
in musical theater, Weber and Rice were

1060
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,240
unable to secure funding to produce

1061
00:38:46,240 --> 00:38:48,720
Jesus Christ Superstar as a show. So,

1062
00:38:48,720 --> 00:38:50,720
they released it as a concept album that

1063
00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:52,640
generated enough buzz to finally land

1064
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,119
them on Broadway. The show was a smash

1065
00:38:55,119 --> 00:38:57,119
hit and held the record for the longest

1066
00:38:57,119 --> 00:38:58,800
running musical in London's West End

1067
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,119
until it lost the title to Weber's 1981

1068
00:39:01,119 --> 00:39:03,760
musical Hacks.

1069
00:39:03,760 --> 00:39:06,800
>> Game four, the first night game in World

1070
00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:07,760
Series history.

1071
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,000
>> In a surprising first, the first ever

1072
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:11,599
night game of the World Series was

1073
00:39:11,599 --> 00:39:13,760
played on October 13th between the

1074
00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:15,520
Baltimore Orioles and the Pittsburgh

1075
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:17,680
Pirates at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers

1076
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,359
Stadium. Night games had been a thing

1077
00:39:19,359 --> 00:39:21,359
for several decades at that point. So,

1078
00:39:21,359 --> 00:39:23,119
why did it take so long to bring the

1079
00:39:23,119 --> 00:39:25,440
World Series to prime time? In short,

1080
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,280
like with most decisions in Major League

1081
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,040
Baseball, it was a question of

1082
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:31,200
tradition. Bucking that tradition paid

1083
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,000
off. The game drew an estimated 63

1084
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,240
million viewers, the largest audience

1085
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:38,560
ever for a nighttime sporting event. The

1086
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,320
end of October sadly claimed another

1087
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:42,640
rock and roll icon when Dwayne Alman of

1088
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,480
the Alman Brothers Band tragically

1089
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:46,320
perished in a motorcycle crash on

1090
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:49,040
October 29th. Sky Dog was driving along

1091
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,440
a highway in Mon Georgia when he lost

1092
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,359
control and collided with a truck. The

1093
00:39:53,359 --> 00:39:55,200
title and artwork of the Almond Brothers

1094
00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:58,400
band's 1972 album Eat a Peach is both a

1095
00:39:58,400 --> 00:40:00,240
reference to a quote from Dwayne Alman

1096
00:40:00,240 --> 00:40:02,160
and the circumstances of his tragic

1097
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,800
accident. In an eerily ironic twist,

1098
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,960
just over one year later, the band's

1099
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,119
bass player Barry Oakley would fatally

1100
00:40:09,119 --> 00:40:10,960
crash his own motorcycle into the side

1101
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,280
of a city bus in Mon, not far from the

1102
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:15,599
site of Dwayne Alman's accident. The Los

1103
00:40:15,599 --> 00:40:17,680
Angeles Lakers began their historic

1104
00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,240
33game winning streak November 5th,

1105
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:22,240
defeating the Baltimore Bullets, now the

1106
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:25,760
Washington Wizards, 110 to 106. Led by

1107
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:27,760
NBA great like Wilt Chamberlain and

1108
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:29,839
Jerry West, the team went on an epic

1109
00:40:29,839 --> 00:40:31,920
two-month tear that remains both a

1110
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,000
league record and the longest undefeated

1111
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:36,079
streak in American professional sports.

1112
00:40:36,079 --> 00:40:38,560
Pop icon Sher scored her first solo hit

1113
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,079
when Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves

1114
00:40:40,079 --> 00:40:41,839
reached number one on the Billboard

1115
00:40:41,839 --> 00:40:44,000
charts November 6th. Although she's gone

1116
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:45,760
on record in recent years as not

1117
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,599
thinking much of the song herself, it

1118
00:40:47,599 --> 00:40:50,000
was an undeniable smash that revived her

1119
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,000
career as a solo artist. Gypsies,

1120
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:53,839
Tramps, and Thieves shipped over 1

1121
00:40:53,839 --> 00:40:56,079
million copies in the US, earning in a

1122
00:40:56,079 --> 00:40:58,000
gold certification and making it the

1123
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,240
bestselling single in the history of MCA

1124
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:02,319
records at the time. Sticking with

1125
00:41:02,319 --> 00:41:05,119
music, British rock group Led Zeppelin

1126
00:41:05,119 --> 00:41:07,359
released their fourth untitled album,

1127
00:41:07,359 --> 00:41:10,000
generally referred to as Led Zeppelin 4,

1128
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000
2 days later. In addition to being the

1129
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:13,760
band's highests selling album, Led

1130
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,680
Zeppelin 4 is notable for containing

1131
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,359
Stairway to Heaven, the group's

1132
00:41:17,359 --> 00:41:19,280
signature hit and one of the most famous

1133
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,680
classic rock songs of all time. So

1134
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,839
famous, Mike Meyers wasn't allowed to

1135
00:41:23,839 --> 00:41:25,280
play it.

1136
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,920
>> No Stairway denied.

1137
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,480
>> 3 days later, counterculture icon and

1138
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:33,119
godfather of Gonzo journalism, Hunter S.

1139
00:41:33,119 --> 00:41:34,960
Thompson, published the first part of

1140
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,960
his signature work, Fear and Loathing in

1141
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:39,200
Las Vegas, in Rolling Stone magazine.

1142
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:41,200
The serialized novel, which follows

1143
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:43,119
Thompson on a drugfueled vendor while

1144
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:44,640
attending a race on assignment for

1145
00:41:44,640 --> 00:41:46,800
Sports Illustrated, is a chaotic blend

1146
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,040
of fact and fiction that also serves as

1147
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:50,960
a post-mortem of the hippie movement of

1148
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:53,520
the 1960s. The book was a hit, and while

1149
00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:55,359
several attempts were made to adapt it

1150
00:41:55,359 --> 00:41:57,359
into a film over the years, a movie

1151
00:41:57,359 --> 00:42:00,240
wouldn't be released until 27 years

1152
00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:02,640
later when surreal filmmaker and Monty

1153
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,560
Python alumnist Terry Gileiam

1154
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:06,400
successfully adapted Thompson's work

1155
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,880
into the 1998 film of the same name,

1156
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,680
starring Johnny Depp as Thompson.

1157
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,800
>> Wait, we can't stop here. This is Bat

1158
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:17,359
Country. One of the most enduring

1159
00:42:17,359 --> 00:42:19,359
mysteries of American crime went down

1160
00:42:19,359 --> 00:42:21,920
the night of November 24th when a man

1161
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,720
calling himself DB Cooper hijacked

1162
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:27,280
Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305

1163
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:28,960
heading from Portland to Seattle.

1164
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,800
Shortly into the flight, Cooper gave

1165
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,040
flight attendants a note claiming he had

1166
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:34,880
a bomb and would detonate it if he

1167
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:36,640
didn't receive a hefty ransom. After

1168
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,240
briefly landing the plane to collect

1169
00:42:38,240 --> 00:42:40,480
$200,000 in ransom money, Cooper

1170
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:42,400
parachuted out of the rear of the plane

1171
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,800
mid-flight and was never seen again.

1172
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,880
More than half a century later, he has

1173
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:48,800
never been conclusively identified.

1174
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:50,000
Maybe he was just really freaked out

1175
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,400
about going home for Thanksgiving.

1176
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,760
>> We'll be right back.

1177
00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:58,400
>> The French have their rooffort, the

1178
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,839
Dutch their Edom. But in America, the

1179
00:43:01,839 --> 00:43:04,560
cheese is Cracker Barrel. Crack Barrel

1180
00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,599
brand cheddar from craft. Moving into

1181
00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:10,800
December, the Soviet space probe Mars 3

1182
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,960
became the first spacecraft to soft land

1183
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:14,640
on the surface of the red planet on the

1184
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:17,200
2nd o December. For reference, a soft

1185
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,119
landing is essentially the opposite of a

1186
00:43:19,119 --> 00:43:21,359
crash landing. The probe touched down on

1187
00:43:21,359 --> 00:43:23,280
December 2nd in the middle of a massive

1188
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,079
dust storm 9 days after its sister probe

1189
00:43:26,079 --> 00:43:28,720
Mars 2 crash landed on the planet.

1190
00:43:28,720 --> 00:43:30,720
Although the lander failed shortly into

1191
00:43:30,720 --> 00:43:32,640
the mission, the Mars 3 orbiter

1192
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,160
continued to circle the planet and

1193
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:36,240
transmit data and images back to Earth

1194
00:43:36,240 --> 00:43:39,040
for the next 8 months. 8 days later,

1195
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,119
musician Frank Zappa failed to achieve

1196
00:43:41,119 --> 00:43:43,760
orbit when a deranged fan shoved him off

1197
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:45,280
the stage during a performance at

1198
00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,280
London's Rainbow Theater on December

1199
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,520
10th. Zappa was in the middle of a cover

1200
00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:51,599
of the Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand

1201
00:43:51,599 --> 00:43:53,760
when the fan rushed on stage and threw

1202
00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,599
him off. He suffered serious injuries

1203
00:43:55,599 --> 00:43:57,520
that left him confined to a wheelchair

1204
00:43:57,520 --> 00:43:59,839
for over a year. Recalling the incident

1205
00:43:59,839 --> 00:44:02,480
in his 1989 autobiography, The Real

1206
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:05,040
Frank Zappa book, Zappa wrote, "The band

1207
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:06,880
Thought I Was Dead." Just a few days

1208
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,040
earlier, a fan fired a flare gun during

1209
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,359
one of Zappa's performances and set fire

1210
00:44:11,359 --> 00:44:13,200
to the Montro Casino in Geneva,

1211
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:15,200
Switzerland. The fire inspired Deep

1212
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:16,960
Purple, who were performing with Zappa

1213
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:18,640
that night, to write their signature

1214
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,680
song, Smoke on the Water. On the same

1215
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,079
day as the Zappa attack, an unknown

1216
00:44:24,079 --> 00:44:27,040
filmmaker named George Lucas unwittingly

1217
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:28,640
made history when he founded his

1218
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,720
production company Lucasfilm in San

1219
00:44:30,720 --> 00:44:32,720
Rafael, California before it became

1220
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:34,880
known as a workshop of dreams beloved by

1221
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,400
every adolescent action figure

1222
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,040
collector. Lucasfilm was a decidedly

1223
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:41,119
small operation. At the time, the

1224
00:44:41,119 --> 00:44:43,599
creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones

1225
00:44:43,599 --> 00:44:46,560
had only the dystopian sci-fi film THX

1226
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:49,040
11138 under his belt and was still a few

1227
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,119
years away from changing movies forever

1228
00:44:51,119 --> 00:44:53,599
with his blockbuster space opera. Flash

1229
00:44:53,599 --> 00:44:56,560
forward to 40 years later when Lucas

1230
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,319
would sell Lucasfilm to the Walt Disney

1231
00:44:58,319 --> 00:45:01,440
Company to the tune of $4 billion.

1232
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:03,630
That's a lot of power converters.

1233
00:45:03,630 --> 00:45:08,079
[Music]

1234
00:45:08,079 --> 00:45:10,960
>> Stop it. Stop it, please. done by you.

1235
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,240
>> And that's how 1971 came to a close with

1236
00:45:14,240 --> 00:45:16,400
a Drew and a Jedi giving us a glimpse of

1237
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,319
the new wave of movies about to strike

1238
00:45:18,319 --> 00:45:21,040
Hollywood. 1972 was on its way with an

1239
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:23,040
exciting new hobby from a video game

1240
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,119
company and the most infamous political

1241
00:45:25,119 --> 00:45:27,599
scandal of the 20th century. Also, a

1242
00:45:27,599 --> 00:45:29,440
certain marblemouthed leading man would

1243
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,079
make us all an offer we couldn't refuse.

1244
00:45:32,079 --> 00:45:34,960
But that's for next year. Coming soon,

1245
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,480
1972.

1246
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:37,520
>> Hi, Cass.

1247
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:38,400
>> Hi, John.

1248
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,160
>> How you doing? Fine and dandy.

1249
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:41,359
>> I'm great, too.

1250
00:45:41,359 --> 00:45:43,440
>> I didn't ask you how you

1251
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,440
>> pop culture was out of sight in 1972. TV

1252
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:48,800
saw the beginning of a New Year's

1253
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:50,480
tradition and the premiere of one of the

1254
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,359
most popular dramas of all time. Radios

1255
00:45:53,359 --> 00:45:55,520
and record stores received several funky

1256
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:57,599
new albums that would continue shifting

1257
00:45:57,599 --> 00:45:59,760
popular music from the sound of the 60s

1258
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,240
into fresh new territory. Electronic

1259
00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:03,760
entertainment gained its first real

1260
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:06,160
foothold. Sports history was made more

1261
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,319
than once by an exciting new generation

1262
00:46:08,319 --> 00:46:10,400
of athletes. And one of the greatest

1263
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,560
movies of all time was released in

1264
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,720
theaters. It's not personal, it's

1265
00:46:14,720 --> 00:46:15,680
strictly business.

1266
00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,160
>> But the year was also bugging. Political

1267
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,160
unrest continued around the globe and

1268
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:21,839
every American old enough to watch the

1269
00:46:21,839 --> 00:46:23,520
nightly news would learn more about an

1270
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,839
elite Washington DC building complex

1271
00:46:25,839 --> 00:46:27,200
than they knew about their own

1272
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,040
grandmothers. We're going to talk about

1273
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:30,560
the news, culture, sports, and

1274
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:32,960
entertainment, and all that was weird in

1275
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:36,270
the 70s. This is Timeline.

1276
00:46:36,270 --> 00:46:42,880
[Music]

1277
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,200
Settle in for some historic news because

1278
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:48,240
today we're talking 1972.

1279
00:46:48,240 --> 00:46:50,640
Now it's time to freak out in a

1280
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:51,359
daydream.

1281
00:46:51,359 --> 00:46:55,200
>> And I'm lost in a day. Yeah.

1282
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,359
>> The year would start off with a fox.

1283
00:46:57,359 --> 00:46:58,880
>> Hello, police. I want to report a

1284
00:46:58,880 --> 00:46:59,280
robbery.

1285
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:02,000
>> How many men were four? Four.

1286
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:04,960
>> That too many.

1287
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,839
No, that's it. Were they colored?

1288
00:47:07,839 --> 00:47:10,079
>> Yeah, white.

1289
00:47:10,079 --> 00:47:12,240
>> Mid January would have a surprising new

1290
00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:14,400
footnote to the Second World War when a

1291
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,160
Japanese soldier was discovered hiding

1292
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,480
out on Guam nearly three decades after

1293
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:20,560
Japan's surrender when US forces

1294
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,160
recaptured the island from Japanese

1295
00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,680
control in 1944. Sergeant Suichi Yakoy

1296
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,760
had disappeared into the jungle rather

1297
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,160
than surrender. And there he remained

1298
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,800
living off the land for 28 years. When

1299
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,640
Yokcoy was discovered by locals and

1300
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:36,960
given the long overdue news about the

1301
00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:38,880
end of the war, he returned home to

1302
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:42,160
Japan as a national hero. On Sunday,

1303
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,880
January 30th, 13 unarmed demonstrators

1304
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:47,280
in London, Northern Ireland were cut

1305
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,839
down by British Army paratroopers in an

1306
00:47:49,839 --> 00:47:51,440
incident that would become known as

1307
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:53,440
Bloody Sunday. The demonstrators were

1308
00:47:53,440 --> 00:47:55,119
part of a march protesting the British

1309
00:47:55,119 --> 00:47:56,720
government's policy of arresting and

1310
00:47:56,720 --> 00:47:58,960
imprisoning anyone suspected of being an

1311
00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:00,960
Irish nationalist. The government

1312
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,119
declared the march unlawful and sent the

1313
00:48:03,119 --> 00:48:05,520
army to confront the demonstrators. This

1314
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:06,960
was one of the most significant events

1315
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,040
of the troubles, the period of Irish

1316
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:10,720
nationalist orchestrating violent

1317
00:48:10,720 --> 00:48:12,640
campaigns to force Great Britain to free

1318
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,359
Ireland from its rule. Moving into

1319
00:48:15,359 --> 00:48:17,599
February, Canadian folk rock musician

1320
00:48:17,599 --> 00:48:20,000
Neil Young released his signature album

1321
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,559
Harvest on the 1st. Harvest contains

1322
00:48:22,559 --> 00:48:24,079
collaborations with a number of major

1323
00:48:24,079 --> 00:48:26,319
artists like Linda Ronstat, David

1324
00:48:26,319 --> 00:48:28,720
Crosby, and James Taylor, and went on to

1325
00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:30,559
become the best-selling album of the

1326
00:48:30,559 --> 00:48:32,880
year and the biggest of Young's career.

1327
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:35,040
The lead single, Heart of Gold, sold

1328
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,119
over 1 million copies and remains

1329
00:48:37,119 --> 00:48:39,680
Young's only number one hit in the US.

1330
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:43,440
Not a bad harvest for the soulful Kuck.

1331
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,240
This was Germany in the early 30s. This

1332
00:48:46,240 --> 00:48:48,960
was Sally BS in the early 30s. Full of

1333
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:49,520
life.

1334
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,440
>> I love parties. Doesn't my body drive

1335
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:52,960
you wild with desire

1336
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,079
>> and love?

1337
00:48:54,079 --> 00:48:56,240
>> I may have my tiny faults.

1338
00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:59,440
>> God damn it, I'm going to have a baby.

1339
00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:01,440
>> Sally is rather knowledgeable in these

1340
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:01,839
areas.

1341
00:49:01,839 --> 00:49:03,200
>> Does it really matter as long as you're

1342
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:04,640
having fun?

1343
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,960
>> Every night at the Royale Theater, the

1344
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,359
50s come to life. Greece.

1345
00:49:09,359 --> 00:49:11,200
>> The musical Greece opened on Broadway

1346
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,520
for the first time on Valentine's Day,

1347
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,760
starring Barry Boswick and Carol Demis

1348
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:18,000
as teen lovers Danny and Sandy. The

1349
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:19,920
musical received seven Tony Award

1350
00:49:19,920 --> 00:49:22,240
nominations and ran for nearly 4,000

1351
00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:24,240
performances featuring notable

1352
00:49:24,240 --> 00:49:26,240
replacement actors like Richard Gear,

1353
00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:28,720
Patrick Sees, Adrien Barau, Peter

1354
00:49:28,720 --> 00:49:31,280
Gallagher, and John Travolta. Travolta

1355
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:32,880
would retain the role of Dany in the

1356
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,520
film version, which hit theaters 6 years

1357
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,040
later on June 16th, 1978. The film made

1358
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:40,960
household names out of Travolta and his

1359
00:49:40,960 --> 00:49:44,160
co-star Olivia Newton John. Shifting

1360
00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:45,920
gears from the world of hot rodding

1361
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:48,480
teams to the world of sports, Wilt the

1362
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,480
Stilts Chamberlain became the first NBA

1363
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:52,960
player to score 30,000 points on

1364
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,760
February 16th. Ironically, despite his

1365
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,319
legendary status as a scorer, both on

1366
00:49:58,319 --> 00:50:00,559
and off the court, Chamberlain only put

1367
00:50:00,559 --> 00:50:02,559
up 10 points the day he made basketball

1368
00:50:02,559 --> 00:50:05,520
history. 5 days later, Richard Nixon

1369
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:07,359
became the first US president to visit

1370
00:50:07,359 --> 00:50:09,200
the People's Republic of China on

1371
00:50:09,200 --> 00:50:13,119
February 21st. We seek an open world, a

1372
00:50:13,119 --> 00:50:15,760
world in which no people, great or

1373
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:18,480
small, will live in angry isolation.

1374
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,640
>> Nixon's visit was hailed as a strategic

1375
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:22,640
move to drive a wedge between China and

1376
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:24,720
the Soviet Union, which had been more

1377
00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:26,559
heavily supporting North Vietnam during

1378
00:50:26,559 --> 00:50:28,319
the Vietnam War.

1379
00:50:28,319 --> 00:50:30,960
>> You found paradise in America, had a

1380
00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:32,880
good trade, made a good living, police

1381
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:34,480
protected you, and there were courts of

1382
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,559
law. I want you to rest well and a month

1383
00:50:36,559 --> 00:50:38,800
from now this Hollywood big shot's going

1384
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:40,240
to give you what you want.

1385
00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:43,280
>> Too late. They start shooting in a week.

1386
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:45,920
>> I'm going to make him an offer with you.

1387
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:47,920
>> Coming back to Nixon, the president's

1388
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:49,440
administration had former Beatles

1389
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:51,599
frontman John Lennon and his wife Yoko

1390
00:50:51,599 --> 00:50:54,160
Ono served with deportation papers in

1391
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:56,240
mid-March. The Nixon administration

1392
00:50:56,240 --> 00:50:58,079
argued that Lenin was in the country

1393
00:50:58,079 --> 00:51:00,240
illegally. And immigration's policy has

1394
00:51:00,240 --> 00:51:02,480
always been not to split a family. So

1395
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,319
they're saying that seeing as Mr. Lenon

1396
00:51:04,319 --> 00:51:07,040
is not eligible because I was bust in

1397
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,599
England in 1968. Planted, by the way,

1398
00:51:09,599 --> 00:51:10,720
both better get out.

1399
00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:13,040
>> But because Nixon is going to Nixon, the

1400
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:14,880
deportation order more to do with the

1401
00:51:14,880 --> 00:51:16,400
singer's criticism of the Nixon

1402
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:18,079
administration and America's involvement

1403
00:51:18,079 --> 00:51:20,160
in the Vietnam War. A number of

1404
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:21,760
celebrities and public figures wrote

1405
00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:23,520
statements petitioning the Immigration

1406
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:25,280
and Naturalization Service to allow

1407
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,520
Lenin and Ono to remain in the country,

1408
00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:30,079
including Bob Dylan, Joan Bayz, John

1409
00:51:30,079 --> 00:51:32,559
Updike, Joyce Carol Oats, and Tony

1410
00:51:32,559 --> 00:51:34,240
Curtis.

1411
00:51:34,240 --> 00:51:36,640
70s heartthrob Bert Reynolds created

1412
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:38,480
what would become one of the internet's

1413
00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:41,040
most famous images for the April 1972

1414
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,920
issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. The man

1415
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,079
who defined macho for an entire

1416
00:51:46,079 --> 00:51:48,319
generation kicked back on a bare skin

1417
00:51:48,319 --> 00:51:50,480
rug wearing nothing but a twinkle in his

1418
00:51:50,480 --> 00:51:52,880
eye and that world famous mustache.

1419
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:54,559
Reynolds claimed he had been drinking

1420
00:51:54,559 --> 00:51:56,319
the morning of the shoot and was in his

1421
00:51:56,319 --> 00:51:58,720
own words plastered by the time he posed

1422
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:00,880
for the legendary photo. No word on how

1423
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,400
much the bear had to drink.

1424
00:52:04,400 --> 00:52:08,160
We'll be right back.

1425
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,319
>> Bowling sure makes me hot and thirsty.

1426
00:52:10,319 --> 00:52:12,559
This is a job for Kool-Aid.

1427
00:52:12,559 --> 00:52:13,680
>> Hey, Kool-Aid.

1428
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:18,079
>> Oh yeah, Kool-Aid here bringing you fun.

1429
00:52:18,079 --> 00:52:21,119
Kool-Aid got thirst on the run. Get a

1430
00:52:21,119 --> 00:52:25,280
big wide happy ear to wear. Kool-Aid.

1431
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:28,319
The biggest smile is a Kool-Aid smile.

1432
00:52:28,319 --> 00:52:30,240
>> Your friend's cool. My friend's

1433
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:31,680
Kool-Aid.

1434
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,760
>> Mobster Joe Gallow was gunned down in

1435
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,319
the middle of his 43rd birthday party at

1436
00:52:36,319 --> 00:52:38,319
a restaurant in New York City's Little

1437
00:52:38,319 --> 00:52:40,640
Italy neighborhood on April 7th.

1438
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:42,319
>> At least 14 persons witnessed the

1439
00:52:42,319 --> 00:52:43,920
killing, including Gallow's wife, a

1440
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:45,119
bride of three weeks.

1441
00:52:45,119 --> 00:52:46,880
>> Gallow, an alleged member of the

1442
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,119
Columbbo crime family, had gained a

1443
00:52:49,119 --> 00:52:51,520
reputation as a wild man, earning him

1444
00:52:51,520 --> 00:52:54,319
the nickname Crazy Joe. Notorious mob

1445
00:52:54,319 --> 00:52:56,400
enforcer Frank Sheeran, aka the

1446
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:58,559
Irishman, later claimed responsibility

1447
00:52:58,559 --> 00:53:00,720
for whacking Gallow, but his claim has

1448
00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:02,640
been disputed by some investigators and

1449
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:05,200
witnesses. To this day, Gallow's murder

1450
00:53:05,200 --> 00:53:07,680
officially remains unsolved, although

1451
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:09,680
Shiran's version of events was depicted

1452
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:12,400
in the 2019 Martin Scorsesi film, The

1453
00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,200
Irishman. Moving into May and the other

1454
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:17,760
side of the law, famed FBI boss and

1455
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,839
future Leonardo DiCaprio facial

1456
00:53:19,839 --> 00:53:22,960
prosthetic J. Edgar Hoover passed away.

1457
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:25,359
Jay Edgar Hoover was one of the giants.

1458
00:53:25,359 --> 00:53:26,880
His long life brimmmed over with

1459
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:28,720
magnificent achievement and dedicated

1460
00:53:28,720 --> 00:53:30,880
service to this country which he loves

1461
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,720
so well. Hoover served as director of

1462
00:53:32,720 --> 00:53:34,559
the Federal Bureau of Investigation for

1463
00:53:34,559 --> 00:53:37,200
nearly 50 years, but Hoover became a

1464
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:38,800
controversial figure toward the end of

1465
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:40,880
his career, in particular for his

1466
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,400
widespread surveillance of American

1467
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,800
citizens suspected of being communists

1468
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,119
or communist sympathizers.

1469
00:53:47,119 --> 00:53:50,079
>> Communist back here.

1470
00:53:50,079 --> 00:53:52,079
>> Congress passed a law requiring all

1471
00:53:52,079 --> 00:53:54,160
future FBI directors to be approved by

1472
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,240
the Senate and served no longer than 10

1473
00:53:56,240 --> 00:53:59,119
years. Speaking of controversy, Alabama

1474
00:53:59,119 --> 00:54:00,960
Governor George Wallace was seriously

1475
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:02,880
wounded in an assassination attempt on

1476
00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,839
May 15th. Wallace, who staunchly opposed

1477
00:54:05,839 --> 00:54:08,160
desegregation and famously stood on the

1478
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:09,839
steps of the enrollment office of the

1479
00:54:09,839 --> 00:54:11,680
University of Alabama, blocking two

1480
00:54:11,680 --> 00:54:13,359
black students from entering when the

1481
00:54:13,359 --> 00:54:16,559
school was racially integrated in 1963.

1482
00:54:16,559 --> 00:54:18,559
Wallace was attending a campaign rally

1483
00:54:18,559 --> 00:54:20,880
in Laurel, Maryland, when he was shot by

1484
00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:23,119
21-year-old Arthur Bremer, leaving

1485
00:54:23,119 --> 00:54:24,880
Wallace permanently paralyzed from the

1486
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,119
waist down. Wallace was reelected as

1487
00:54:27,119 --> 00:54:29,280
Alabama's governor two more times,

1488
00:54:29,280 --> 00:54:31,280
finally ending his political career in

1489
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:33,520
1982 as one of the longest serving

1490
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,920
governors in American history. The

1491
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,240
Philadelphia Phillies Greg Luskinsky

1492
00:54:38,240 --> 00:54:40,319
pulled off a historic shot of his own a

1493
00:54:40,319 --> 00:54:42,559
day later when he belted a home run out

1494
00:54:42,559 --> 00:54:44,640
of Philly's Veteran Stadium that struck

1495
00:54:44,640 --> 00:54:46,319
the replica Liberty Bell at top the

1496
00:54:46,319 --> 00:54:48,400
bleachers in center field. The bell was

1497
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:49,839
parked at the highest point of the

1498
00:54:49,839 --> 00:54:51,760
stadium some 500 ft away from home

1499
00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:53,920
plate. No wonder Luskinsky was nicknamed

1500
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,319
the bull. The end of a different era was

1501
00:54:56,319 --> 00:54:58,400
underway two weeks later when White

1502
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,800
House uh plumbers first broke into the

1503
00:55:00,800 --> 00:55:03,200
Watergate complex in Washington DC on

1504
00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:05,599
May 28th. These plumbers were a group of

1505
00:55:05,599 --> 00:55:08,960
ex FBI and CIA led by former FBI agent

1506
00:55:08,960 --> 00:55:10,960
Gordon Litty who broke into the

1507
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:12,240
Democratic National Committee

1508
00:55:12,240 --> 00:55:14,079
headquarters in the Watergate complex to

1509
00:55:14,079 --> 00:55:16,480
plant recording devices ostensibly to

1510
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,079
gather information that would help Nixon

1511
00:55:18,079 --> 00:55:20,160
in his upcoming reelection campaign.

1512
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:21,520
We'll see in a minute how the president

1513
00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:24,000
couldn't leave well enough alone. David

1514
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,400
Bow's groundbreaking album, The Rise and

1515
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,240
Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders

1516
00:55:28,240 --> 00:55:31,200
from Mars, was released 9 days later on

1517
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,920
June 6th. A concept album, loosely

1518
00:55:33,920 --> 00:55:36,000
telling the story of an extraterrestrial

1519
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,640
rockstar messiah who let fame go to his

1520
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:41,040
head. Ziggy Stardust was part album and

1521
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:42,319
part performance art.

1522
00:55:42,319 --> 00:55:44,640
>> I wanted to define the archetype

1523
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:47,119
messiah, rockstar. That's all I wanted

1524
00:55:47,119 --> 00:55:49,359
to do. And I used the trappings of

1525
00:55:49,359 --> 00:55:52,240
Kabuki theater, mind technique, fringe

1526
00:55:52,240 --> 00:55:54,480
New York music, like my references were

1527
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:55,520
Velvet Underground.

1528
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:57,680
>> Bowie created a Ziggy alter ego he would

1529
00:55:57,680 --> 00:55:59,920
embody during live shows for the next 18

1530
00:55:59,920 --> 00:56:02,400
months. The album made Bowie a bonafide

1531
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,559
superstar and is considered to be among

1532
00:56:04,559 --> 00:56:06,319
his finest work as well as one of the

1533
00:56:06,319 --> 00:56:08,079
best and most influential rock records

1534
00:56:08,079 --> 00:56:10,319
of all time. Democratic National

1535
00:56:10,319 --> 00:56:11,920
Committee is trying to solve a spy

1536
00:56:11,920 --> 00:56:14,319
mystery. It began before dawn Saturday

1537
00:56:14,319 --> 00:56:16,160
when five intruders were captured by

1538
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:17,839
police inside the offices of the

1539
00:56:17,839 --> 00:56:18,799
committee in Washington.

1540
00:56:18,799 --> 00:56:21,280
>> Among the five men was former CIA agent

1541
00:56:21,280 --> 00:56:23,599
James W. McCord Jr., who was then

1542
00:56:23,599 --> 00:56:25,760
serving as the security coordinator for

1543
00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:27,599
Nixon's re-election committee. The men

1544
00:56:27,599 --> 00:56:29,520
were discovered with burglary tools,

1545
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:31,599
recording equipment, several cameras,

1546
00:56:31,599 --> 00:56:34,160
and actual tear gas guns in case they

1547
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,480
needed to take out Spectre, I guess.

1548
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:38,319
However, President Nixon announced that

1549
00:56:38,319 --> 00:56:39,839
a White House investigation had

1550
00:56:39,839 --> 00:56:41,359
determined that no part of his

1551
00:56:41,359 --> 00:56:42,960
administration had been involved with

1552
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:44,960
the break-in and that the men had acted

1553
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:46,160
independently.

1554
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:49,760
>> The easiest course would be for me to

1555
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:52,160
blame those to whom I delegated the

1556
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,799
responsibility to run the campaign, but

1557
00:56:54,799 --> 00:56:57,200
that would be a cowardly thing to do.

1558
00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:58,720
>> His version of the story would go

1559
00:56:58,720 --> 00:57:01,119
unchallenged for about a month. More on

1560
00:57:01,119 --> 00:57:02,960
that in a bit.

1561
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:05,200
Electrical engineers Nolan Bushnell and

1562
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,280
Ted Dabney took the first step toward

1563
00:57:07,280 --> 00:57:09,200
dooming the productivity of future

1564
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:12,000
generations when they founded Atari Inc.

1565
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:15,040
on June 27th in Sunnyvale, California.

1566
00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:16,720
Bushnell and Dabney had recently

1567
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:18,720
designed the first arcade video game

1568
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,359
Computer Space in 1971 and were looking

1569
00:57:21,359 --> 00:57:23,760
to continue producing electronic games.

1570
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:25,200
The company's name comes from the

1571
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:27,440
Japanese word Atari, which Bushnell

1572
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:28,799
selected because of its use in the

1573
00:57:28,799 --> 00:57:32,079
ancient board game go. 4 days later, the

1574
00:57:32,079 --> 00:57:34,240
first official UK gay pride rally was

1575
00:57:34,240 --> 00:57:36,880
held in London on July 1st. The date was

1576
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:38,400
chosen to mark the anniversary of the

1577
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:40,799
Stonewall riots, which had ignited after

1578
00:57:40,799 --> 00:57:42,640
police raided the popular gay club, the

1579
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:44,880
Stonewall Inn, in New York City on June

1580
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:48,319
28th, 1969. Approximately 2,000 people

1581
00:57:48,319 --> 00:57:50,319
attended the rally. Today, Pride in

1582
00:57:50,319 --> 00:57:52,319
London continues to run annual festivals

1583
00:57:52,319 --> 00:57:54,720
celebrating diversity in the LGBTQ

1584
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:56,240
community as one of the largest and

1585
00:57:56,240 --> 00:57:57,839
longest running pride events in the

1586
00:57:57,839 --> 00:58:00,240
world. In the world of sports, tennis

1587
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,240
icon Billy Jean King won her eighth

1588
00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,559
Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon on

1589
00:58:04,559 --> 00:58:07,200
July 7th. It was one of three Grand Slam

1590
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:09,440
singles victories King earned that year,

1591
00:58:09,440 --> 00:58:11,040
which probably had something to do with

1592
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:12,880
Sports Illustrated naming her sports

1593
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:14,960
person of the year alongside college

1594
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:16,960
basketball coach John Wooden in their

1595
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,119
December 25th issue. King was the first

1596
00:58:19,119 --> 00:58:21,599
woman to win the award. Later that

1597
00:58:21,599 --> 00:58:24,079
month, a staggering 57 homicides were

1598
00:58:24,079 --> 00:58:26,400
committed in New York City over a 7-day

1599
00:58:26,400 --> 00:58:28,400
period that ended at midnight on July

1600
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:30,640
20th. That staggering number was a

1601
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:32,559
record for the city at the time, which

1602
00:58:32,559 --> 00:58:34,880
had reported an average weekly homicide

1603
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:37,440
toll of 31 the previous year.

1604
00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:39,200
Investigators theorized that a

1605
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:41,280
combination of a sweltering heatwave,

1606
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:43,359
payday, and random chance may have

1607
00:58:43,359 --> 00:58:45,119
contributed to the unusually high number

1608
00:58:45,119 --> 00:58:47,359
of homicides, which included 26

1609
00:58:47,359 --> 00:58:49,760
stabbings, a genuine mob hit, and an

1610
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:51,680
incineration. Yep, you heard that one

1611
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:53,359
right. That was a bad week to be awake

1612
00:58:53,359 --> 00:58:55,380
in the city that never sleeps.

1613
00:58:55,380 --> 00:58:57,599
[Music]

1614
00:58:57,599 --> 00:59:01,359
>> We'll be right back.

1615
00:59:01,359 --> 00:59:03,760
>> What's this stuff? Some cereal. It's

1616
00:59:03,760 --> 00:59:05,760
supposed to be good for you. Did you try

1617
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:06,079
it?

1618
00:59:06,079 --> 00:59:08,480
>> I'm not going to try it. You try it.

1619
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:11,200
>> I'm not going to try it. Let's get

1620
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:12,000
Mikey.

1621
00:59:12,000 --> 00:59:14,480
>> Yeah. He won't need it. He hates

1622
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:17,359
everything.

1623
00:59:17,359 --> 00:59:20,079
>> He likes it. Hey, Mikey. When you bring

1624
00:59:20,079 --> 00:59:22,079
life home, don't tell the kids it's one

1625
00:59:22,079 --> 00:59:23,760
of those nutritional cereals you've been

1626
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:25,520
trying to get them to eat. You're the

1627
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:29,119
only one who has to know.

1628
00:59:29,119 --> 00:59:31,839
>> Well, the system's done all right by me.

1629
00:59:31,839 --> 00:59:34,000
>> Why do you go on these trips with me?

1630
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,799
>> I like my life, Louis. Got a nice job,

1631
00:59:36,799 --> 00:59:38,559
got a nice house, nice kid.

1632
00:59:38,559 --> 00:59:40,720
>> Make that sound rather shitty, Lewis.

1633
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:42,079
>> Yeah, but why do you go on these trips

1634
00:59:42,079 --> 00:59:43,440
with me?

1635
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:45,440
Sticking with crime, Washington Post

1636
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,040
reporters Bob Woodward and Carl

1637
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:48,880
Bernstein published their first article

1638
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:50,720
investigating the Watergate scandal on

1639
00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,040
August 1st. The pair reported that a

1640
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:55,920
check for $25,000 originally intended

1641
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:57,920
for Nixon's re-election campaign had

1642
00:59:57,920 --> 00:59:59,599
been deposited into the account of one

1643
00:59:59,599 --> 01:00:01,599
of the Watergate burglars arrested for

1644
01:00:01,599 --> 01:00:03,599
the break-in. Considering Nixon had

1645
01:00:03,599 --> 01:00:06,000
emphatically stated that no one in his

1646
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:07,839
administration had any knowledge of the

1647
01:00:07,839 --> 01:00:10,000
break-in, the deposit was admittedly

1648
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,319
hard to explain. And uh what's that

1649
01:00:12,319 --> 01:00:15,440
word? Oh yeah, suspicious. Woodward and

1650
01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:17,119
Bernstein would continue investigating

1651
01:00:17,119 --> 01:00:19,119
the Watergate break-in for the next two

1652
01:00:19,119 --> 01:00:22,240
years. Later that month, John Lennin

1653
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:24,319
played his final full public concert on

1654
01:00:24,319 --> 01:00:27,119
August 30th. Lennin and his wife, Yoko

1655
01:00:27,119 --> 01:00:29,359
Ono, mostly performed songs from their

1656
01:00:29,359 --> 01:00:31,839
latest album, Sometime in New York. But

1657
01:00:31,839 --> 01:00:33,920
the rascal beetle snuck in a beetleless

1658
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:35,599
rendition of Come Together, as well as

1659
01:00:35,599 --> 01:00:37,760
his signature hit, Imagine. Paul

1660
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:40,000
McCartney had been invited to attend as

1661
01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:42,079
well, but ultimately turned the offer

1662
01:00:42,079 --> 01:00:43,119
down.

1663
01:00:43,119 --> 01:00:45,680
>> This is a CBS News special report.

1664
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:47,359
Terror at the Olympics.

1665
01:00:47,359 --> 01:00:49,680
>> Just 6 days later, members of a

1666
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:51,440
Palestinian terrorist group known as

1667
01:00:51,440 --> 01:00:53,680
Black September laid siege to the

1668
01:00:53,680 --> 01:00:55,599
Olympic Village apartment of Israeli

1669
01:00:55,599 --> 01:00:58,000
athletes competing in the 1972 summer

1670
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:00,319
games at Munich. The terrorists murdered

1671
01:01:00,319 --> 01:01:02,000
two athletes and took nine others

1672
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,240
hostage, demanding the release of over

1673
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:07,119
230 Arab prisoners incarcerated in

1674
01:01:07,119 --> 01:01:09,599
Israeli jails. All of the hostages were

1675
01:01:09,599 --> 01:01:11,280
slain in a shootout at the Munich

1676
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:12,880
airport along with five of the

1677
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:15,119
terrorists and a German police officer.

1678
01:01:15,119 --> 01:01:16,640
Rather than canceling the games

1679
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:18,640
entirely, the decision was made to

1680
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:21,599
suspend competition for 24 hours to hold

1681
01:01:21,599 --> 01:01:23,200
memorial services for the Israeli

1682
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,839
athletes. In response to the siege, the

1683
01:01:25,839 --> 01:01:28,400
Israeli government sent a team of MSAD

1684
01:01:28,400 --> 01:01:30,400
agents to track down and eliminate the

1685
01:01:30,400 --> 01:01:32,880
Black September terrorists responsible.

1686
01:01:32,880 --> 01:01:35,760
Flash forward 33 years when Steven

1687
01:01:35,760 --> 01:01:38,079
Spielberg's film Munich, a dramatization

1688
01:01:38,079 --> 01:01:39,920
of the siege in the subsequent revenge

1689
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,079
mission was released on December 23rd,

1690
01:01:42,079 --> 01:01:44,960
2005. September would see the start of

1691
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:47,280
some now famous TV series.

1692
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:49,520
>> It's a trial. I have to be there at 10

1693
01:01:49,520 --> 01:01:50,160
tomorrow.

1694
01:01:50,160 --> 01:01:52,160
>> Daddy, how can you be so oppressive?

1695
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:53,520
It's the older generation's answer to

1696
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:54,000
everything.

1697
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:55,839
>> You see, today is Sunday. Not that I'm a

1698
01:01:55,839 --> 01:01:58,160
religious man, but I feel on this day of

1699
01:01:58,160 --> 01:02:00,559
worship, it would be wrong to strangle

1700
01:02:00,559 --> 01:02:01,920
your children.

1701
01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:03,119
>> Big important thing in your career

1702
01:02:03,119 --> 01:02:04,319
that's happened to you. I mean, this

1703
01:02:04,319 --> 01:02:04,799
kind of

1704
01:02:04,799 --> 01:02:07,920
>> aside from Reese was the musical I did

1705
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:09,520
on Broadway, which sort of led to Mod.

1706
01:02:09,520 --> 01:02:10,720
And Mod's the first television thing

1707
01:02:10,720 --> 01:02:11,440
I've ever done.

1708
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:13,760
>> I've heard about you. I've heard about

1709
01:02:13,760 --> 01:02:15,280
your love making.

1710
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:16,559
>> That's nothing.

1711
01:02:16,559 --> 01:02:18,720
>> That's what I heard.

1712
01:02:18,720 --> 01:02:21,119
>> Then hold it, Carol. Come on, honey.

1713
01:02:21,119 --> 01:02:22,799
Can't you put a little more pizzazz in

1714
01:02:22,799 --> 01:02:24,319
it? I mean, this is a tribute to

1715
01:02:24,319 --> 01:02:26,960
Burlesque, not the Walden.

1716
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:27,200
Going to

1717
01:02:27,200 --> 01:02:29,280
>> fly down now and get some sleep.

1718
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:31,040
>> Good night, Dad. Good night, Elizabeth.

1719
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:32,559
>> Good night, John Boy. Good night, Jim

1720
01:02:32,559 --> 01:02:35,520
Bob. Good night, Jim Bob.

1721
01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,559
>> Good night, Jim Bob.

1722
01:02:38,559 --> 01:02:41,200
>> Many.

1723
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:44,079
Yeah. What's in here?

1724
01:02:44,079 --> 01:02:49,079
Soots, sir. Be the judge of that.

1725
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:51,490
Heading

1726
01:02:51,490 --> 01:02:54,690
[Music]

1727
01:02:55,839 --> 01:02:58,400
into October, Uruguayan Air Force Flight

1728
01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,119
571, carrying the Old Christians Club

1729
01:03:01,119 --> 01:03:03,119
rugby team and several of their family

1730
01:03:03,119 --> 01:03:05,040
members and friends, crashed into the

1731
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:07,200
Andes Mountains. The survivors were

1732
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:08,720
stranded in the freezing mountains for

1733
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:11,599
the next 72 days, huddling in the plains

1734
01:03:11,599 --> 01:03:13,599
fuselage for shelter and melting snow

1735
01:03:13,599 --> 01:03:15,760
for drinking water. To not starve,

1736
01:03:15,760 --> 01:03:17,680
survivors were forced to consume the

1737
01:03:17,680 --> 01:03:19,359
remains of those who had perished during

1738
01:03:19,359 --> 01:03:21,280
the crash or later succumb to the

1739
01:03:21,280 --> 01:03:23,200
elements. The group began to lose hope

1740
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:25,280
as their numbers tragically dwindled

1741
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:28,640
until December 23rd when rescue

1742
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:30,559
helicopters finally arrived. The story

1743
01:03:30,559 --> 01:03:32,559
of the team's incredible ordeal spending

1744
01:03:32,559 --> 01:03:34,480
over 2 months in the frozen wilderness

1745
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,119
was the inspiration for the 1993 film

1746
01:03:37,119 --> 01:03:39,200
Alive, starring Ethan Hawk and Josh

1747
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:41,280
Hamilton, who are extremely not from

1748
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:42,240
Uruguay.

1749
01:03:42,240 --> 01:03:44,640
>> The paper covers the rock. The rock

1750
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:46,160
crushes the scissors.

1751
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:48,400
>> Is not playing a child's game a waste of

1752
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:48,799
time?

1753
01:03:48,799 --> 01:03:51,359
>> In games, children teach, sometimes more

1754
01:03:51,359 --> 01:03:55,760
than books. Calm. Instruct an old man.

1755
01:03:55,760 --> 01:03:58,400
>> We now go to Miami, where Polaroid

1756
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:00,720
unveiled the world's first truly instant

1757
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:02,559
camera on October 26th.

1758
01:04:02,559 --> 01:04:04,720
>> And now, a compact folding

1759
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:06,640
electronically controlled motordriven

1760
01:04:06,640 --> 01:04:09,119
single lens reflex camera capable of

1761
01:04:09,119 --> 01:04:11,359
focusing from infinity down to 10 in.

1762
01:04:11,359 --> 01:04:14,000
The SX70 reduced the development process

1763
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:16,319
to a single step. Just click the button

1764
01:04:16,319 --> 01:04:18,079
to take your shot, and the camera took

1765
01:04:18,079 --> 01:04:20,000
care of the rest, spitting out a square

1766
01:04:20,000 --> 01:04:21,599
photograph that developed in seconds

1767
01:04:21,599 --> 01:04:23,520
right before your eyes. The square

1768
01:04:23,520 --> 01:04:25,200
images and development process have

1769
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:27,119
since become synonymous with the phrase

1770
01:04:27,119 --> 01:04:29,760
taking a Polaroid. On the same day as

1771
01:04:29,760 --> 01:04:31,760
Polaroid's debut, the National Park

1772
01:04:31,760 --> 01:04:33,680
Service began the first guided tours of

1773
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:35,920
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, the

1774
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:38,240
infamous maximum security prison located

1775
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:40,799
on San Francisco's Alcatres Island. The

1776
01:04:40,799 --> 01:04:42,559
prison still operates as a museum and

1777
01:04:42,559 --> 01:04:44,480
tourist attraction to this day, and

1778
01:04:44,480 --> 01:04:46,559
several former guards and inmates alike

1779
01:04:46,559 --> 01:04:48,319
have worked there. Although there were a

1780
01:04:48,319 --> 01:04:50,079
handful of attempts, nobody ever

1781
01:04:50,079 --> 01:04:51,760
successfully escaped the island in the

1782
01:04:51,760 --> 01:04:53,520
three decades that it operated as a

1783
01:04:53,520 --> 01:04:56,960
federal prison, except for Shan Connory.

1784
01:04:56,960 --> 01:05:00,680
>> Welcome to the rock.

1785
01:05:02,079 --> 01:05:03,920
>> Richard Nixon was reelected as the

1786
01:05:03,920 --> 01:05:05,680
president of the United States in a

1787
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:07,839
historic landslide victory. Uh some are

1788
01:05:07,839 --> 01:05:09,839
all of the polls have closed now in a

1789
01:05:09,839 --> 01:05:12,000
dozen states and the early returns put

1790
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:14,559
President Nixon as expected out in front

1791
01:05:14,559 --> 01:05:16,160
and by a sizable margin.

1792
01:05:16,160 --> 01:05:17,760
>> Despite the growing stain of the

1793
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:20,559
Watergate scandal, Nixon won 49 out of

1794
01:05:20,559 --> 01:05:22,960
50 states, completely obliterating

1795
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:24,000
George McGovern.

1796
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:26,079
>> Never known a national election when I

1797
01:05:26,079 --> 01:05:27,760
would be able to go to bed earlier than

1798
01:05:27,760 --> 01:05:28,960
tonight.

1799
01:05:28,960 --> 01:05:30,640
>> Nixon wouldn't be able to enjoy the

1800
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:32,640
sweet taste of success for long, though.

1801
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:34,079
Even though he just earned another

1802
01:05:34,079 --> 01:05:36,160
four-year term as commander-in-chief,

1803
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:37,680
his days in the White House were

1804
01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:40,400
numbered.

1805
01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:44,440
>> We'll be right back.

1806
01:05:44,880 --> 01:05:47,119
>> Intimate by Revlon.

1807
01:05:47,119 --> 01:05:50,000
Diamond Facet spray mist. How'd you

1808
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:53,599
know? An intimate teddy bear. He looks

1809
01:05:53,599 --> 01:05:56,960
just like you. Basket of intimate.

1810
01:05:56,960 --> 01:05:58,880
Did he give me intimate because I like

1811
01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:03,039
it or because he likes it? Ho ho ho.

1812
01:06:03,039 --> 01:06:05,039
>> Give her something intimate. It's really

1813
01:06:05,039 --> 01:06:08,079
a man's fragrance. Intimate by Revlon.

1814
01:06:08,079 --> 01:06:09,599
>> Five short months after starting the

1815
01:06:09,599 --> 01:06:11,760
company, Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell

1816
01:06:11,760 --> 01:06:13,760
released the revolutionary video game

1817
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:16,079
Pong at the end of November. Essentially

1818
01:06:16,079 --> 01:06:18,000
a stripped down version of table tennis.

1819
01:06:18,000 --> 01:06:20,000
The game was initially designed by Atari

1820
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:22,799
engineer Alan Alorn as an exercise, but

1821
01:06:22,799 --> 01:06:24,640
after installing a prototype machine at

1822
01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:26,319
Andicap's Tavern in Sunnyale,

1823
01:06:26,319 --> 01:06:28,400
California, Pong became an instant

1824
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:30,640
success. The game is credited with

1825
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:32,720
launching the video game industry,

1826
01:06:32,720 --> 01:06:34,559
making it partially responsible for why

1827
01:06:34,559 --> 01:06:36,319
you have to wait so long for a new

1828
01:06:36,319 --> 01:06:38,799
timeline episode. These video games do

1829
01:06:38,799 --> 01:06:41,440
not play themselves. The coldness of

1830
01:06:41,440 --> 01:06:43,839
December would hit on the 7th as first

1831
01:06:43,839 --> 01:06:45,680
lady of the Philippines and noted shoe

1832
01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:48,240
collector Alda Marcos was stabbed in an

1833
01:06:48,240 --> 01:06:50,319
assassination attempt. Marcos was

1834
01:06:50,319 --> 01:06:51,920
presenting awards for a national

1835
01:06:51,920 --> 01:06:53,839
beautifification campaign when a man

1836
01:06:53,839 --> 01:06:56,079
emerged from the crowd and attacked her.

1837
01:06:56,079 --> 01:06:57,920
The asalent was taken out by police on

1838
01:06:57,920 --> 01:06:59,920
the spot, but Marcos suffered severe

1839
01:06:59,920 --> 01:07:02,400
damage to her arms and hands and had to

1840
01:07:02,400 --> 01:07:04,240
be flown to a hospital to recover.

1841
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:06,079
Alda's husband, President of the

1842
01:07:06,079 --> 01:07:08,240
Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos, had

1843
01:07:08,240 --> 01:07:10,160
placed the country under martial law in

1844
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:11,119
September.

1845
01:07:11,119 --> 01:07:15,039
>> I signed Proclamation 1081, placing the

1846
01:07:15,039 --> 01:07:17,599
entire Philippines under martial law,

1847
01:07:17,599 --> 01:07:19,280
>> effectively transforming the Philippines

1848
01:07:19,280 --> 01:07:21,760
into a dictatorship under his rule. That

1849
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:25,200
rule would last until February 26th,

1850
01:07:25,200 --> 01:07:27,760
1986 when the Marcos's fled the

1851
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:29,520
presidential palace in Manila after

1852
01:07:29,520 --> 01:07:31,599
trying to overturn election results.

1853
01:07:31,599 --> 01:07:33,440
Evidence of the president's widespread

1854
01:07:33,440 --> 01:07:35,520
corruption quickly emerged, including

1855
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:37,359
the embezzlement of billions from the

1856
01:07:37,359 --> 01:07:40,079
Philippine economy. Hey, 3,000 pairs of

1857
01:07:40,079 --> 01:07:43,200
shoes ain't cheap. Sadly, the good vibes

1858
01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:45,200
felt by Pittsburgh sports fans wouldn't

1859
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:47,440
last when Pittsburgh Pirates all-star

1860
01:07:47,440 --> 01:07:50,240
rightfielder Roberto Clemente tragically

1861
01:07:50,240 --> 01:07:52,240
perished in a plane crash on December

1862
01:07:52,240 --> 01:07:54,480
31st. Clemente was on his way to

1863
01:07:54,480 --> 01:07:56,640
personally deliver relief supplies to

1864
01:07:56,640 --> 01:07:58,720
Nicaragua, which had been struck by a

1865
01:07:58,720 --> 01:08:00,880
devastating earthquake the week before.

1866
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:02,480
Unfortunately, the plane was in

1867
01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:04,400
disrepair and overloaded, and it

1868
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:06,400
exploded just after taking off from

1869
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:08,720
Puerto Rico's International Airport. The

1870
01:08:08,720 --> 01:08:10,799
National Baseball Hall of Fame amended

1871
01:08:10,799 --> 01:08:12,640
their eligibility requirements to

1872
01:08:12,640 --> 01:08:14,559
postumously induct Clemente the

1873
01:08:14,559 --> 01:08:16,799
following year and renamed its annual

1874
01:08:16,799 --> 01:08:18,640
commissioners award to the Roberto

1875
01:08:18,640 --> 01:08:22,719
Clemente Award. 1972 came to a close

1876
01:08:22,719 --> 01:08:24,719
with the first ever broadcast of New

1877
01:08:24,719 --> 01:08:27,040
Year's Rocking Eve with Dick Clark.

1878
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:29,199
Surprisingly, the inaugural broadcast

1879
01:08:29,199 --> 01:08:31,520
was actually titled Three Dog Nights New

1880
01:08:31,520 --> 01:08:33,600
Year's Rocking Eve and was hosted by

1881
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:35,120
members of the psychedelic rock band

1882
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:36,880
rather than Clark, who served more of a

1883
01:08:36,880 --> 01:08:38,400
field reporter position covering the

1884
01:08:38,400 --> 01:08:40,560
ball drop ceremony in Time Square.

1885
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:42,560
>> Let me wish you happy new year, fellas.

1886
01:08:42,560 --> 01:08:44,159
If you think it's wild out there, it's

1887
01:08:44,159 --> 01:08:46,480
beginning to pour here at Times Square.

1888
01:08:46,480 --> 01:08:48,319
>> The show was a success and became an

1889
01:08:48,319 --> 01:08:50,159
annual television tradition for the next

1890
01:08:50,159 --> 01:08:52,400
40 years. Clark only missed one

1891
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:55,040
broadcast in four decades, hosting his

1892
01:08:55,040 --> 01:08:59,120
final installment on December 31st, 2011

1893
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:01,120
before passing away the following April

1894
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:05,440
at age 82. And so 1972 came to a close

1895
01:09:05,440 --> 01:09:07,600
with one icon taking flight for the last

1896
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:09,600
time and another counting down for the

1897
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:12,560
first. But turn that frown upside down,

1898
01:09:12,560 --> 01:09:16,000
cousin. 1973 is just around the bend,

1899
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:17,839
bringing more of the classic flicks,

1900
01:09:17,839 --> 01:09:19,679
righteous tunes, and freaky dicky

1901
01:09:19,679 --> 01:09:21,920
scandals that made the decade unique,

1902
01:09:21,920 --> 01:09:25,440
but that's for next year. Coming soon,

1903
01:09:25,440 --> 01:09:27,679
1973.

1904
01:09:27,679 --> 01:09:30,799
1973 started off with some muchneeded

1905
01:09:30,799 --> 01:09:33,359
good vibes. The end of a long and bloody

1906
01:09:33,359 --> 01:09:35,520
war was finally in sight, and America

1907
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:37,520
took the space race to a stellar new

1908
01:09:37,520 --> 01:09:39,759
level. Plus, there were some seriously

1909
01:09:39,759 --> 01:09:42,239
nifty records to spin. But by the end of

1910
01:09:42,239 --> 01:09:45,040
the year, everyone was running on fumes,

1911
01:09:45,040 --> 01:09:47,040
literally. We're going to talk about the

1912
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:48,480
news, culture, sports, and

1913
01:09:48,480 --> 01:09:50,880
entertainment, and all that was weird in

1914
01:09:50,880 --> 01:09:56,040
the 70s. This is Timeline.

1915
01:09:58,480 --> 01:10:00,640
Settle in for some historic news because

1916
01:10:00,640 --> 01:10:04,000
today we're talking 1973.

1917
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:06,320
Now, I'll see you on the dark side of

1918
01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:08,400
the moon or the end of the episode,

1919
01:10:08,400 --> 01:10:12,320
whichever comes first. This is 1973.

1920
01:10:12,320 --> 01:10:14,239
The year would start off with a little

1921
01:10:14,239 --> 01:10:17,880
schoolhouse rock.

1922
01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:23,679
>> Sticking with catchy tunes, Elvis made

1923
01:10:23,679 --> 01:10:25,760
history with his Aloha from Hawaii

1924
01:10:25,760 --> 01:10:28,239
concert event on January 14th. The

1925
01:10:28,239 --> 01:10:30,400
hourlong show was broadcast live via

1926
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:32,400
satellite from Honolulu International

1927
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:34,320
Center, today known as the Neil S.

1928
01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:36,640
Blazedale Center to approximately three

1929
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:38,960
dozen countries in Asia and the Oceanana

1930
01:10:38,960 --> 01:10:41,280
region. The concert was the first live

1931
01:10:41,280 --> 01:10:43,440
satellite broadcast featuring a single

1932
01:10:43,440 --> 01:10:45,840
performer. It also held the record for

1933
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:47,840
sweatiest human on television until

1934
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:50,080
Jimmy Swagger gave his infamous I have

1935
01:10:50,080 --> 01:10:52,400
sinned speech 15 years later.

1936
01:10:52,400 --> 01:10:56,000
>> I have sinned against you, my lord.

1937
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:58,320
>> The very next day, President Richard

1938
01:10:58,320 --> 01:11:00,159
Nixon announced the United States had

1939
01:11:00,159 --> 01:11:02,320
suspended all offensive actions against

1940
01:11:02,320 --> 01:11:04,560
North Vietnam. The announcements came

1941
01:11:04,560 --> 01:11:06,640
just weeks after Nixon bombarded North

1942
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:08,480
Vietnam with a two-week bombing

1943
01:11:08,480 --> 01:11:10,560
campaign, during which American forces

1944
01:11:10,560 --> 01:11:13,199
dropped over 20,000 tons of ordinance on

1945
01:11:13,199 --> 01:11:16,320
Hiang and Hanoi. 2 weeks later, the US

1946
01:11:16,320 --> 01:11:17,840
signed the Paris Peace Accords with

1947
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:20,159
North Vietnam, the Vietkong, and South

1948
01:11:20,159 --> 01:11:23,280
Vietnam on January 27th. The agreement

1949
01:11:23,280 --> 01:11:25,440
called for an immediate ceasefire across

1950
01:11:25,440 --> 01:11:27,520
Vietnam, and for the United States to

1951
01:11:27,520 --> 01:11:29,120
begin withdrawing its forces and

1952
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:32,000
dismantling its bases. In return, North

1953
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:33,440
Vietnam agreed to release their

1954
01:11:33,440 --> 01:11:35,360
prisoners of war, including every

1955
01:11:35,360 --> 01:11:36,480
captive American.

1956
01:11:36,480 --> 01:11:38,480
>> Today, the largest contingent of re of

1957
01:11:38,480 --> 01:11:41,040
repatriated prisoners so far, 60 men,

1958
01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:42,800
were flown from Clark to Travis Air

1959
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:44,159
Force Base, California.

1960
01:11:44,159 --> 01:11:46,560
>> It was effectively the end of the US's

1961
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:48,159
involvement in the Vietnam War.

1962
01:11:48,159 --> 01:11:49,679
>> I'm going to give you 4 hours to get

1963
01:11:49,679 --> 01:11:53,900
away and I'm coming after you.

1964
01:11:53,900 --> 01:11:56,480
[Music]

1965
01:11:56,480 --> 01:11:58,239
>> 4 hours. Don't waste any more precious

1966
01:11:58,239 --> 01:12:00,800
time. Lean mean knockout producing

1967
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:02,960
hitting machine George Foreman defeated

1968
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:05,360
heavyweight champion Joe Frasier at the

1969
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:07,760
Sunshine Showdown in Kingston, Jamaica

1970
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:10,960
on January 22nd. Foreman, the 3 to1

1971
01:12:10,960 --> 01:12:13,120
underdog, took the undefeated Frasier

1972
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:14,880
off his feet six times before the

1973
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:17,040
referee stopped the fight. 1 minute and

1974
01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:20,159
35 seconds into the second round.

1975
01:12:20,159 --> 01:12:23,040
>> It is over in the second round. George

1976
01:12:23,040 --> 01:12:26,000
Foreman is the heavyweight champion of

1977
01:12:26,000 --> 01:12:27,920
the world. Foreman would defend his

1978
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:29,760
heavyweight title twice before losing it

1979
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:31,679
in one of the most famous boxing matches

1980
01:12:31,679 --> 01:12:34,400
in history. More on that next year. On

1981
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:36,640
the same day as Foreman's victory, the

1982
01:12:36,640 --> 01:12:38,800
US Supreme Court reached its landmark

1983
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:41,199
decision in the case of Ro v. Wade,

1984
01:12:41,199 --> 01:12:43,360
deciding that the American Constitution

1985
01:12:43,360 --> 01:12:45,520
conferred the right to have an abortion.

1986
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:48,159
The 7-2 decision argued that a woman's

1987
01:12:48,159 --> 01:12:50,000
right to an abortion was protected by

1988
01:12:50,000 --> 01:12:52,320
the privacy rights guaranteed in the

1989
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:54,640
14th Amendment. The court relied upon

1990
01:12:54,640 --> 01:12:57,360
the 1965 case of Griswald v. Connecticut

1991
01:12:57,360 --> 01:12:59,520
as precedent which established the right

1992
01:12:59,520 --> 01:13:01,440
to privacy with respect to intimate

1993
01:13:01,440 --> 01:13:03,679
practices. The decision would stand for

1994
01:13:03,679 --> 01:13:06,640
nearly 50 years until Ro. Wade was

1995
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:10,239
overturned on June 24th, 2022 in a 6 to3

1996
01:13:10,239 --> 01:13:12,960
decision. The Supreme Court in DOS v.

1997
01:13:12,960 --> 01:13:14,960
Jackson Women's Health Organization

1998
01:13:14,960 --> 01:13:17,440
overturned Roie Wade and returned the

1999
01:13:17,440 --> 01:13:19,280
issue of abortion rights to individual

2000
01:13:19,280 --> 01:13:22,960
states on June 24th, 2022 in a 6-3

2001
01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,120
decision. Not to be outdone by foreman

2002
01:13:25,120 --> 01:13:27,120
or the Supreme Court, former President

2003
01:13:27,120 --> 01:13:28,960
Lyndon Baines Johnson also made

2004
01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:31,360
headlines on January 22nd when he passed

2005
01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:33,440
away. Johnson initially entered the

2006
01:13:33,440 --> 01:13:35,280
White House as John F. Kennedy's vice

2007
01:13:35,280 --> 01:13:37,440
president and was famously sworn in as

2008
01:13:37,440 --> 01:13:39,040
commander-in-chief on board Air Force

2009
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:40,960
One after Kennedy's death on November

2010
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:44,000
22nd, 1963. Despite popular successes

2011
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:45,520
with the Voting Rights Act and Civil

2012
01:13:45,520 --> 01:13:47,360
Rights Act, Johnson received harsh

2013
01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,280
criticism for his inability to achieve

2014
01:13:49,280 --> 01:13:51,440
victory in the Vietnam War, and many of

2015
01:13:51,440 --> 01:13:53,360
the changes under his presidency were

2016
01:13:53,360 --> 01:13:56,080
undone by his successor, Richard Nixon.

2017
01:13:56,080 --> 01:13:57,760
Speaking of Nixon, at the end of

2018
01:13:57,760 --> 01:14:00,159
January, Watergate burglars G. Gordon

2019
01:14:00,159 --> 01:14:02,239
Litty and James McCord were convicted of

2020
01:14:02,239 --> 01:14:04,719
conspiracy, burglary, and placing

2021
01:14:04,719 --> 01:14:06,400
illegal recording devices for their

2022
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:08,080
roles in the break-in. Four other

2023
01:14:08,080 --> 01:14:09,600
burglars, including Litty's fellow

2024
01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:12,320
former CIA agent E. Howard Hunt, had

2025
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:13,920
already plead guilty earlier in the

2026
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:15,920
month. With convictions and guilty plea

2027
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:18,800
secured, Judge John J. Saraka, began

2028
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:20,719
threatening the group with severe prison

2029
01:14:20,719 --> 01:14:22,719
sentences unless they spilled the beans

2030
01:14:22,719 --> 01:14:24,960
on their co-conspirators, namely

2031
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,040
President Nixon. Stay tuned to see how

2032
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:29,280
this whole Watergate thing shakes out.

2033
01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:31,679
Just a few hours north of DC that same

2034
01:14:31,679 --> 01:14:34,640
day, makeuploving band Kiss played their

2035
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:36,719
first ever show at the Coventry Club in

2036
01:14:36,719 --> 01:14:39,120
Queens, New York for a crowd of less

2037
01:14:39,120 --> 01:14:41,120
than 10 people. Kiss would go on to

2038
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,760
enjoy huge success as an arena rock band

2039
01:14:43,760 --> 01:14:45,679
for much of the decade. They slapped

2040
01:14:45,679 --> 01:14:47,360
their painted faces on every piece of

2041
01:14:47,360 --> 01:14:49,440
merchandise imaginable, including comic

2042
01:14:49,440 --> 01:14:52,239
books, a pinball game, toys, condoms,

2043
01:14:52,239 --> 01:14:54,719
and even the Kiss Casket. Moving into

2044
01:14:54,719 --> 01:14:56,880
February in the world of music, Iggy and

2045
01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:58,719
the Stooges released their third studio

2046
01:14:58,719 --> 01:15:01,600
album, Raw Power. Boasting a thrashing

2047
01:15:01,600 --> 01:15:03,920
hard rock sound, the chaotic vocals of

2048
01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:06,320
frontman Iggy Pop, and a mix by none

2049
01:15:06,320 --> 01:15:08,159
other than the thin white Duke himself,

2050
01:15:08,159 --> 01:15:10,239
David Bowie, Raw Power became the

2051
01:15:10,239 --> 01:15:12,400
group's signature record. Raw Power is

2052
01:15:12,400 --> 01:15:14,159
considered to be the most important punk

2053
01:15:14,159 --> 01:15:16,640
rock album ever recorded. Fresh off the

2054
01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:18,239
signing of the Paris Peace Accords from

2055
01:15:18,239 --> 01:15:20,080
the previous month, the first American

2056
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:22,480
PS were released by North Vietnam on

2057
01:15:22,480 --> 01:15:26,960
February 12th. 142 of 591 prisoners were

2058
01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:29,360
set free in Hanoi and flown back to the

2059
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:31,520
US for tearful reunions with their loved

2060
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:33,360
ones at Travis Air Force Base in

2061
01:15:33,360 --> 01:15:35,840
California. The final American P was

2062
01:15:35,840 --> 01:15:37,679
released just over a month later on

2063
01:15:37,679 --> 01:15:39,840
March 29th. Speaking of notable

2064
01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:42,080
releases, pop group Tony Orlando and

2065
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:44,320
Dawn's hit single Tie a Yellow Ribbon

2066
01:15:44,320 --> 01:15:46,640
Around the Old Oak Tree was released one

2067
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:49,600
week later on February 19th. The song

2068
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:51,199
told from the point of view of a man

2069
01:15:51,199 --> 01:15:52,880
returning home from prison and asking

2070
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:54,800
his love to tie a yellow ribbon around

2071
01:15:54,800 --> 01:15:56,560
the oak tree in front of her house if he

2072
01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:58,640
is still welcome would hit the top 10 in

2073
01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:00,320
10 different countries. The catchy,

2074
01:16:00,320 --> 01:16:02,320
melodramatic jam is notable for being

2075
01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:06,320
referenced by Nicholas Cage in Conair.

2076
01:16:06,320 --> 01:16:10,080
>> We'll be right back.

2077
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:13,040
New stick shifters. Honda Pinto Gremlin.

2078
01:16:13,040 --> 01:16:14,960
May look funny, but they're no joke.

2079
01:16:14,960 --> 01:16:18,000
Stick shifters get them in gear. Honda

2080
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:20,159
gremlin disappear.

2081
01:16:20,159 --> 01:16:22,000
>> In late February, members of the

2082
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:24,000
controversial group, the American Indian

2083
01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:26,480
Movement began a 71-day occupation of

2084
01:16:26,480 --> 01:16:28,719
Wounded Knee, South Dakota on the Pine

2085
01:16:28,719 --> 01:16:31,199
Ridge Indian Reservation. Around 200

2086
01:16:31,199 --> 01:16:33,360
people participated in the occupation in

2087
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:35,280
protest of the US government's failure

2088
01:16:35,280 --> 01:16:37,600
to honor tribal treaties and of sue

2089
01:16:37,600 --> 01:16:39,440
tribal chairman Richard Wilson and his

2090
01:16:39,440 --> 01:16:41,600
alleged corruption after Wilson narrowly

2091
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:43,920
avoided impeachment earlier that month.

2092
01:16:43,920 --> 01:16:46,080
Gunfire was exchanged between protesters

2093
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:48,480
and federal officers nearly every day,

2094
01:16:48,480 --> 01:16:50,320
resulting in two deaths and one serious

2095
01:16:50,320 --> 01:16:52,400
injury before AIM leaders finally

2096
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:54,719
negotiated a surrender on May 8th.

2097
01:16:54,719 --> 01:16:56,800
>> The occupation of Wounded Knee ended

2098
01:16:56,800 --> 01:16:59,360
yesterday. Only 15 of the occupants were

2099
01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:01,040
arrested. the others were allowed to go

2100
01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:01,679
free.

2101
01:17:01,679 --> 01:17:04,080
>> Moving into March, Pink Floyd began a

2102
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:06,560
736-w week occupation of the Billboard

2103
01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:08,560
200 with the release of their landmark

2104
01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:10,719
album, The Dark Side of the Moon, on

2105
01:17:10,719 --> 01:17:13,360
March 1st. The concept album was a mega

2106
01:17:13,360 --> 01:17:15,760
hit, selling over 45 million copies and

2107
01:17:15,760 --> 01:17:18,560
going platinum 14 times in the UK. And

2108
01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:20,239
The Dark Side of the Moon's album art

2109
01:17:20,239 --> 01:17:22,080
has become one of the most recognizable

2110
01:17:22,080 --> 01:17:24,239
images in music. If you sync up the

2111
01:17:24,239 --> 01:17:25,760
album to play alongside The Wizard of

2112
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:27,840
Oz, well, well, just do it and see what

2113
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:29,760
happens.

2114
01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:31,600
The next day, eight members of the

2115
01:17:31,600 --> 01:17:33,360
Palestinian terrorist group known as

2116
01:17:33,360 --> 01:17:35,440
Black September took control of the

2117
01:17:35,440 --> 01:17:38,320
Saudi Arabian embassy in Kartum, Sudan,

2118
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:40,320
taking 10 diplomats hostage, including

2119
01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:42,719
officials from America, Belgium, Saudi

2120
01:17:42,719 --> 01:17:44,960
Arabia, and Jordan. In exchange for the

2121
01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:46,880
hostages, the terrorists demanded the

2122
01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:48,719
release of several captive Palestinians

2123
01:17:48,719 --> 01:17:50,880
being held in Israeli prisons, as well

2124
01:17:50,880 --> 01:17:53,280
as the release of Sirhan Sirhan, the man

2125
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:54,800
convicted of assassinating Robert

2126
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:57,440
Kennedy in 1968. Tragically, the

2127
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terrorists ended three of the hostages

2128
01:17:59,440 --> 01:18:01,600
after negotiations stalled before

2129
01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:03,360
ultimately surrendering to Sudin

2130
01:18:03,360 --> 01:18:05,520
authorities 3 days later. Turning to

2131
01:18:05,520 --> 01:18:08,159
sports, well, sort of. New York Yankees

2132
01:18:08,159 --> 01:18:10,239
pitcher Fritz Peterson and Mike Kikitch

2133
01:18:10,239 --> 01:18:12,159
each called bizarre press conferences on

2134
01:18:12,159 --> 01:18:14,159
the 5th of March to let the world know

2135
01:18:14,159 --> 01:18:16,400
that they had traded their wives. And

2136
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:18,159
not just wives, they had traded their

2137
01:18:18,159 --> 01:18:19,920
entire families, including their

2138
01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:22,159
children and even their pets. Thanks for

2139
01:18:22,159 --> 01:18:24,400
the update, guys. How'd it work out?

2140
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:26,000
Better than you might have expected.

2141
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:27,600
While Kikitch and the former Mrs.

2142
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:29,440
Peterson broke up rather quickly,

2143
01:18:29,440 --> 01:18:31,520
Peterson and the former Mrs. Kikitch are

2144
01:18:31,520 --> 01:18:32,960
still together at the time of this video

2145
01:18:32,960 --> 01:18:35,920
airing, almost 50 years later. 11

2146
01:18:35,920 --> 01:18:38,080
awkward family dinner dates later, Queen

2147
01:18:38,080 --> 01:18:40,239
Elizabeth 11 opened a new London Bridge

2148
01:18:40,239 --> 01:18:42,960
on March 15th. The new bridge was

2149
01:18:42,960 --> 01:18:45,440
actually the third London Bridge. London

2150
01:18:45,440 --> 01:18:48,320
Bridge II stood for roughly 600 years.

2151
01:18:48,320 --> 01:18:50,080
It was sold to an oil tycoon named

2152
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:52,000
Robert Mccullik who had the bridge taken

2153
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:54,080
apart and rebuilt in Lake Havsu City,

2154
01:18:54,080 --> 01:18:56,320
Arizona. A popular rumor suggested that

2155
01:18:56,320 --> 01:18:58,159
McCullik purchased the old London Bridge

2156
01:18:58,159 --> 01:19:00,000
by mistake, thinking he was actually

2157
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:02,080
buying the way groovier Tower Bridge,

2158
01:19:02,080 --> 01:19:04,000
but the tycoon denied this until his

2159
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,560
dying day four years later. Over in

2160
01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:08,800
Hollywood, Marlon Brando refused to

2161
01:19:08,800 --> 01:19:11,600
accept his best actor Oscar for his role

2162
01:19:11,600 --> 01:19:14,400
as Don Vito Corleon in The Godfather on

2163
01:19:14,400 --> 01:19:17,040
March 27th. Native American actress

2164
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:19,840
Maria Louise Cruz, also known as Sasheen

2165
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:21,679
Little Feather, spoke on the actor's

2166
01:19:21,679 --> 01:19:23,440
behalf, reading a statement written by

2167
01:19:23,440 --> 01:19:25,199
Brando explaining that he was declining

2168
01:19:25,199 --> 01:19:27,440
the award in protest of the portrayal of

2169
01:19:27,440 --> 01:19:29,360
Native Americans in film.

2170
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:31,679
>> And he has asked me to tell you in a

2171
01:19:31,679 --> 01:19:33,920
very long speech which I cannot share

2172
01:19:33,920 --> 01:19:35,840
with you presently

2173
01:19:35,840 --> 01:19:37,280
because of time.

2174
01:19:37,280 --> 01:19:39,280
>> Brando was the second actor to refuse an

2175
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:41,679
Oscar in his many years. George C. Scott

2176
01:19:41,679 --> 01:19:43,520
had declined to accept his best actor

2177
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:46,560
award for his role as Patton in 1971

2178
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:48,239
because he objected to the idea of a

2179
01:19:48,239 --> 01:19:50,080
ceremony that pitted actors against each

2180
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:52,400
other. Good point, George. Heading into

2181
01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:54,880
April, a notable first. The first mobile

2182
01:19:54,880 --> 01:19:57,280
phone call was made by Motorola employee

2183
01:19:57,280 --> 01:19:59,520
Martin Cooper on the third. Cooper made

2184
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:01,360
the call on a shoe box-sized prototype

2185
01:20:01,360 --> 01:20:04,640
that weighed 2 12 lb. Who did he call? A

2186
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:07,360
rival employee at ATandT who was busy

2187
01:20:07,360 --> 01:20:09,440
working on his own prototype. Can you

2188
01:20:09,440 --> 01:20:11,840
hear me now? because that dunk was

2189
01:20:11,840 --> 01:20:13,920
deafening. The next day, we head to New

2190
01:20:13,920 --> 01:20:15,520
York City where the World Trade Center

2191
01:20:15,520 --> 01:20:17,280
opened its doors to become the world's

2192
01:20:17,280 --> 01:20:19,520
tallest building at the time. The Twin

2193
01:20:19,520 --> 01:20:21,120
Towers took the top spot from the

2194
01:20:21,120 --> 01:20:23,280
previous record holder, another famous

2195
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:25,440
New York City landmark, the Empire State

2196
01:20:25,440 --> 01:20:27,040
Building. Although the World Trade

2197
01:20:27,040 --> 01:20:28,320
Center would only briefly hold the

2198
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:29,840
record before losing the title to the

2199
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:32,080
Sears Tower the following year, we were

2200
01:20:32,080 --> 01:20:33,679
really into the tall building race in

2201
01:20:33,679 --> 01:20:35,600
the 70s, Hollywood still found the time

2202
01:20:35,600 --> 01:20:37,440
to throw King Kong off the Twin Towers

2203
01:20:37,440 --> 01:20:40,080
in the 1976 remake. Apparently, that's

2204
01:20:40,080 --> 01:20:41,840
how they test skyscrapers in New York

2205
01:20:41,840 --> 01:20:44,159
City. Speaking of high art, the

2206
01:20:44,159 --> 01:20:46,159
massively influential avantgard painter

2207
01:20:46,159 --> 01:20:48,320
Pablo Picasso packed away his mortal

2208
01:20:48,320 --> 01:20:50,880
easel on April 8th. Picasso was a

2209
01:20:50,880 --> 01:20:52,880
co-founder of the cubist movement, an

2210
01:20:52,880 --> 01:20:54,880
abstract art style found in many of his

2211
01:20:54,880 --> 01:20:57,920
most famous works, including this 1937

2212
01:20:57,920 --> 01:21:00,000
masterpiece. The master and his wife

2213
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:01,280
were in the middle of dinner with

2214
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:03,199
friends when he collapsed, succumbing to

2215
01:21:03,199 --> 01:21:05,440
heart failure at the age of 91.

2216
01:21:05,440 --> 01:21:07,520
12-year-old Carolyn King took the field

2217
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:09,360
as the first girl to play Little League

2218
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:11,760
Baseball on May 10th, defying the

2219
01:21:11,760 --> 01:21:13,760
organization's long-standing rule that

2220
01:21:13,760 --> 01:21:15,840
disallowed girls from playing. In

2221
01:21:15,840 --> 01:21:17,840
response, Little League Baseball revoked

2222
01:21:17,840 --> 01:21:19,760
the Yipsilani American Little League's

2223
01:21:19,760 --> 01:21:21,840
charter, effectively banning them from

2224
01:21:21,840 --> 01:21:24,000
playing. King and the city of Yipsilani

2225
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:25,840
filed a discrimination lawsuit, and

2226
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:27,600
though the lawsuit was dismissed, Little

2227
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:29,199
League Baseball eventually dropped its

2228
01:21:29,199 --> 01:21:32,560
boys only rule in 1975. America's first

2229
01:21:32,560 --> 01:21:34,960
space station, Skyab, was launched on

2230
01:21:34,960 --> 01:21:38,080
May 14th. Skyab was 118 ft tall and

2231
01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:40,560
weighed 77 tons or the equivalent of

2232
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:43,440
about 40 Chevrolet Monte Carlos. Skyab

2233
01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:45,840
housed its first three-man crew 11 days

2234
01:21:45,840 --> 01:21:47,600
later when astronauts boarded the

2235
01:21:47,600 --> 01:21:49,120
station to make repairs and conduct

2236
01:21:49,120 --> 01:21:51,840
experiments for the next 28 days. Over

2237
01:21:51,840 --> 01:21:53,120
the next few years, the station would

2238
01:21:53,120 --> 01:21:54,880
house three separate crews for extended

2239
01:21:54,880 --> 01:21:56,639
periods of time, collecting vital

2240
01:21:56,639 --> 01:21:58,080
information about the sun and the

2241
01:21:58,080 --> 01:21:59,760
effects of living in space on the human

2242
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:02,080
body. Two weeks later, city councilman

2243
01:22:02,080 --> 01:22:04,080
Thomas Bradley defeated incumbent Sam

2244
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:06,239
Yordy to become the first black mayor of

2245
01:22:06,239 --> 01:22:09,040
Los Angeles on the 29th of May. A former

2246
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:11,360
LAPD officer who retired from the force

2247
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:13,520
to practice law, Bradley would go on to

2248
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:15,760
be reelected to an unprecedented five

2249
01:22:15,760 --> 01:22:18,320
terms and made two unsuccessful bids to

2250
01:22:18,320 --> 01:22:20,239
become governor of California. Turning

2251
01:22:20,239 --> 01:22:22,320
the dial to music, Paul McCartney and

2252
01:22:22,320 --> 01:22:24,159
Wings released their only good song,

2253
01:22:24,159 --> 01:22:26,719
Live and Let Die, on June 1st. The song

2254
01:22:26,719 --> 01:22:28,560
was the theme to the James Bond film of

2255
01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:30,480
the same name. Although it was far from

2256
01:22:30,480 --> 01:22:32,560
McCartney's biggest single, Live and Let

2257
01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:34,639
Die nabbed an Academy Award nomination

2258
01:22:34,639 --> 01:22:36,719
for best song, as well as a Grammy

2259
01:22:36,719 --> 01:22:38,639
nomination. Not bad for a tune that

2260
01:22:38,639 --> 01:22:40,000
sounds like it was about his former

2261
01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:42,560
bandmates. Sticking with music, just two

2262
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:44,560
weeks later, Kuner Marvin Gay released

2263
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:47,440
his mega single, Let's Get It On. An

2264
01:22:47,440 --> 01:22:49,440
emotional anthem about love and doing

2265
01:22:49,440 --> 01:22:51,440
the dirty, the song became one of Gay's

2266
01:22:51,440 --> 01:22:53,040
signature hits. It remains one of

2267
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:54,480
Mottown Records most successful

2268
01:22:54,480 --> 01:22:56,480
recordings of all time, selling 2

2269
01:22:56,480 --> 01:22:58,480
million copies in its first six weeks of

2270
01:22:58,480 --> 01:23:00,960
release alone.

2271
01:23:00,960 --> 01:23:03,290
>> We'll be right back.

2272
01:23:03,290 --> 01:23:04,639
[Music]

2273
01:23:04,639 --> 01:23:06,400
>> If you love almonds,

2274
01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:07,040
>> almonds.

2275
01:23:07,040 --> 01:23:07,600
>> Yeah,

2276
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:09,280
>> really love almonds.

2277
01:23:09,280 --> 01:23:09,920
>> I do.

2278
01:23:09,920 --> 01:23:10,480
>> I do.

2279
01:23:10,480 --> 01:23:10,960
>> I do.

2280
01:23:10,960 --> 01:23:13,199
>> You'll love the Mars Almond Bar. You get

2281
01:23:13,199 --> 01:23:14,800
an almond in every bite.

2282
01:23:14,800 --> 01:23:17,440
>> Heading into July, millionaire heir Jean

2283
01:23:17,440 --> 01:23:20,320
Paul Getty III was kidnapped in Rome.

2284
01:23:20,320 --> 01:23:22,400
Getty's grandfather, the infamously

2285
01:23:22,400 --> 01:23:25,120
frugal oil tycoon J. Paul Getty Senior,

2286
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:27,040
refused to pay his teenage grandson's

2287
01:23:27,040 --> 01:23:29,840
ransom of $17 million. He eventually

2288
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:32,239
agreed to a discounted ransom of $3.2

2289
01:23:32,239 --> 01:23:34,239
million, but only after the kidnappers

2290
01:23:34,239 --> 01:23:36,080
mailed their hostages severed ear to a

2291
01:23:36,080 --> 01:23:38,159
Roman newspaper. But the ordeal didn't

2292
01:23:38,159 --> 01:23:40,239
end there. We'll find out more later

2293
01:23:40,239 --> 01:23:43,120
this year. On July 20th, legendary actor

2294
01:23:43,120 --> 01:23:45,360
and martial artist Bruce Lee passed away

2295
01:23:45,360 --> 01:23:47,840
at the age of 32. Lee had been in Hong

2296
01:23:47,840 --> 01:23:50,000
Kong to discuss his upcoming film, Game

2297
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:51,920
of Death. The actor had previously been

2298
01:23:51,920 --> 01:23:54,320
diagnosed with cerebral edema two months

2299
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:56,000
earlier after collapsing in Golden

2300
01:23:56,000 --> 01:23:57,520
Harvest Studios while recording some

2301
01:23:57,520 --> 01:23:59,600
dialogue for Enter the Dragon. The cause

2302
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:01,199
of Lee's death has been the subject of

2303
01:24:01,199 --> 01:24:03,360
intense speculation, blaming everything

2304
01:24:03,360 --> 01:24:06,159
from a Gangland assassination to an evil

2305
01:24:06,159 --> 01:24:08,400
curse. The curse theory would gain more

2306
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:11,120
momentum 30 years later when Lee's son

2307
01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:13,040
Brandon was fatally shot in a freak

2308
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:14,880
accident while filming the action movie

2309
01:24:14,880 --> 01:24:17,679
The Crow. Moving into August, musician

2310
01:24:17,679 --> 01:24:19,679
Stevie Wonder fell into a coma after

2311
01:24:19,679 --> 01:24:21,679
suffering a head injury in a serious car

2312
01:24:21,679 --> 01:24:23,760
accident on the 6th of August. The

2313
01:24:23,760 --> 01:24:25,280
singer was being driven to a radio

2314
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:26,960
station by his cousin to promote his

2315
01:24:26,960 --> 01:24:28,960
latest album when their car crashed into

2316
01:24:28,960 --> 01:24:30,880
the back of a flatbed truck. Wonder

2317
01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:33,679
remained in a coma for 4 days. He even

2318
01:24:33,679 --> 01:24:36,000
temporarily lost his sense of smell,

2319
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,239
which come on universe, don't do that to

2320
01:24:38,239 --> 01:24:39,040
Stevie.

2321
01:24:39,040 --> 01:24:40,320
>> Hey, you're supposed to be the fastest

2322
01:24:40,320 --> 01:24:42,000
thing in the valley, man. But that can't

2323
01:24:42,000 --> 01:24:44,400
be your car. It must be your mama's car.

2324
01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:46,560
I'm sort of embarrassed to be this close

2325
01:24:46,560 --> 01:24:49,040
to you. Well, I'm not surprised.

2326
01:24:49,040 --> 01:24:50,880
>> September would start out with some sad

2327
01:24:50,880 --> 01:24:53,679
news as Lord of the Rings author JRR

2328
01:24:53,679 --> 01:24:56,400
Tolken set sail for the Undying Lands at

2329
01:24:56,400 --> 01:24:58,639
age 81. The Lord of the Rings has sold

2330
01:24:58,639 --> 01:25:00,880
more than 50 million copies to date and

2331
01:25:00,880 --> 01:25:02,880
has been translated into roughly 30

2332
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:04,719
different languages, including The Black

2333
01:25:04,719 --> 01:25:08,679
Speech of Mordor, probably.

2334
01:25:09,440 --> 01:25:10,719
>> Bridge, this is the captain. What's

2335
01:25:10,719 --> 01:25:12,719
happened? Two Romulan battle cruisers,

2336
01:25:12,719 --> 01:25:14,159
Captain, and they're heading right for

2337
01:25:14,159 --> 01:25:17,159
us.

2338
01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:19,440
>> Elsewhere, Wonder Woman's transparent

2339
01:25:19,440 --> 01:25:22,400
plane carries the super friend Seawward.

2340
01:25:22,400 --> 01:25:24,560
>> I wish I could join you in Aquaman.

2341
01:25:24,560 --> 01:25:26,400
>> Thanks, Batman, but this operation is

2342
01:25:26,400 --> 01:25:27,840
best handled by two.

2343
01:25:27,840 --> 01:25:29,840
>> Sticking with sports, decorated tennis

2344
01:25:29,840 --> 01:25:31,840
pro Billy Jean King defeated former

2345
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:34,159
champ Bobby Riggs in a much balihood

2346
01:25:34,159 --> 01:25:36,080
exhibition match dubbed the Battle of

2347
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:38,400
the Sexes on September 20th. The

2348
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:40,800
55-year-old gambler and hustler Riggs

2349
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:43,040
began challenging female players earlier

2350
01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:44,960
in the year, goating his potential

2351
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:46,960
opponents with rants like, "Women belong

2352
01:25:46,960 --> 01:25:48,719
in the bedroom and kitchen." In that

2353
01:25:48,719 --> 01:25:50,639
order, Rigs was no match for the

2354
01:25:50,639 --> 01:25:52,320
30-year-old number one ranked female

2355
01:25:52,320 --> 01:25:54,480
player, King, who woped him three games

2356
01:25:54,480 --> 01:25:56,000
in a row to win the match in front of

2357
01:25:56,000 --> 01:25:58,480
30,000 fans at the Houston Astredome and

2358
01:25:58,480 --> 01:26:00,320
an estimated 90 million more on

2359
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:02,639
television. The 5th of October saw the

2360
01:26:02,639 --> 01:26:04,320
release of eccentric Ivory Ticklan

2361
01:26:04,320 --> 01:26:06,560
rockstar Elton John's seventh album,

2362
01:26:06,560 --> 01:26:08,719
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Goodbye

2363
01:26:08,719 --> 01:26:10,560
contained a number of hit singles,

2364
01:26:10,560 --> 01:26:12,639
including Candle in the Wind, Benny and

2365
01:26:12,639 --> 01:26:14,719
the Jets, Saturday nights All Right for

2366
01:26:14,719 --> 01:26:16,800
Fighting, and the title track Goodbye

2367
01:26:16,800 --> 01:26:18,560
Yellow Brick Road has sold over 30

2368
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:21,280
million copies worldwide. The very next

2369
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:24,000
day, Syrian and Egyptian forces launched

2370
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:26,480
a coordinated attack on Israel with the

2371
01:26:26,480 --> 01:26:28,639
aim of reclaiming territory lost during

2372
01:26:28,639 --> 01:26:31,920
the third Arab-Israeli war in 1967.

2373
01:26:31,920 --> 01:26:34,159
Dubbed the Yam Kapoor War, the attack

2374
01:26:34,159 --> 01:26:35,760
was specifically intended to take

2375
01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:37,840
Israeli forces by surprise as it

2376
01:26:37,840 --> 01:26:39,280
occurred on the holiest day of the year

2377
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:41,199
in the Jewish faith. Although the armed

2378
01:26:41,199 --> 01:26:43,199
conflict only lasted a few weeks with a

2379
01:26:43,199 --> 01:26:45,120
ceasefire going into effect on the 25th

2380
01:26:45,120 --> 01:26:47,199
of October, the fallout was further

2381
01:26:47,199 --> 01:26:49,360
reaching particularly for Israel and its

2382
01:26:49,360 --> 01:26:51,440
allies. Elvis and Priscilla Presley

2383
01:26:51,440 --> 01:26:53,199
divorced after 6 years of marriage on

2384
01:26:53,199 --> 01:26:55,360
October 9th. The two had begun seeing

2385
01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:57,360
each other when Priscilla was 14 and

2386
01:26:57,360 --> 01:27:00,480
Elvis was 24. Jailhouse Rock indeed.

2387
01:27:00,480 --> 01:27:02,080
Although the king frequently slept with

2388
01:27:02,080 --> 01:27:03,920
other women and Priscilla had begun an

2389
01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:05,600
affair with her karate instructor that

2390
01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:07,600
nearly resulted in Elvis hiring a hitman

2391
01:27:07,600 --> 01:27:09,199
to take the guy out, the split was

2392
01:27:09,199 --> 01:27:11,199
amicable and the two remained close for

2393
01:27:11,199 --> 01:27:13,280
the rest of Elvis's life. Sticking with

2394
01:27:13,280 --> 01:27:15,679
the world of music, country music legend

2395
01:27:15,679 --> 01:27:17,600
Dolly Parton released her fan favorite

2396
01:27:17,600 --> 01:27:20,560
single Jolene on the 15th of October,

2397
01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:22,560
scoring her second number one hit as a

2398
01:27:22,560 --> 01:27:25,199
solo artist. The song is Parton's most

2399
01:27:25,199 --> 01:27:27,600
recorded tune with everyone from Olivia

2400
01:27:27,600 --> 01:27:29,440
Newton John to the White Stripes doing

2401
01:27:29,440 --> 01:27:31,520
their own covers. Parton later claimed

2402
01:27:31,520 --> 01:27:33,040
in an interview that she wrote the

2403
01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:35,199
lyrics to Jolene on the same day she

2404
01:27:35,199 --> 01:27:37,520
penned the words to another song that

2405
01:27:37,520 --> 01:27:39,760
would become a massively popular cover,

2406
01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:42,960
I will always love you.

2407
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:45,679
>> We'll be right back.

2408
01:27:45,679 --> 01:27:47,840
>> Magnavox presents Odyssey, the

2409
01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:50,080
electronic game of the future. Odyssey

2410
01:27:50,080 --> 01:27:52,239
easily attaches to any brand TV, black

2411
01:27:52,239 --> 01:27:54,080
and white or color, to create a

2412
01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:56,639
closedcircuit electronic playground. The

2413
01:27:56,639 --> 01:27:58,560
Organization of Petroleum Exporting

2414
01:27:58,560 --> 01:28:00,719
Countries, or OPEC, if you're nasty,

2415
01:28:00,719 --> 01:28:03,040
enacted an oil embargo on the 17th of

2416
01:28:03,040 --> 01:28:05,600
October. The embargo punished the United

2417
01:28:05,600 --> 01:28:07,360
States and several other countries for

2418
01:28:07,360 --> 01:28:09,440
their decision to assist Israel by

2419
01:28:09,440 --> 01:28:11,840
reducing its exports by 5% per month

2420
01:28:11,840 --> 01:28:13,840
until Israel withdrew its forces from

2421
01:28:13,840 --> 01:28:16,239
the contested territories. By December,

2422
01:28:16,239 --> 01:28:18,080
oil experts had been reduced by over

2423
01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:20,719
75%, leading to one of the worst energy

2424
01:28:20,719 --> 01:28:23,280
crises in modern history. Gas rationing

2425
01:28:23,280 --> 01:28:25,679
in the US saw high prices and long lines

2426
01:28:25,679 --> 01:28:27,760
that sometimes stretched for miles.

2427
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:29,840
President Nixon asked filling stations

2428
01:28:29,840 --> 01:28:31,600
to refrain from selling gasoline on

2429
01:28:31,600 --> 01:28:33,679
Saturday nights or Sundays. In some

2430
01:28:33,679 --> 01:28:35,040
cases, cars would be restricted to

2431
01:28:35,040 --> 01:28:37,360
buying gas on odd or even numbered days,

2432
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:38,880
depending on which type of number was

2433
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:40,639
the last digit of their license plate.

2434
01:28:40,639 --> 01:28:43,120
And in the UK, people were encouraged to

2435
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:44,960
only heat a single room of their homes

2436
01:28:44,960 --> 01:28:46,960
during the winter. On the topic of

2437
01:28:46,960 --> 01:28:49,199
Nixon, Tricky Dick ousted special

2438
01:28:49,199 --> 01:28:51,760
prosecutor Archerold Cox and accepted

2439
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:53,760
the resignations of Attorney General

2440
01:28:53,760 --> 01:28:56,159
Elliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney

2441
01:28:56,159 --> 01:28:58,800
General William Ruckles House on October

2442
01:28:58,800 --> 01:29:01,040
20th. The culling became unofficially

2443
01:29:01,040 --> 01:29:03,440
known as the Saturday Night Massacre as

2444
01:29:03,440 --> 01:29:05,280
Nixon cleaned house at the Justice

2445
01:29:05,280 --> 01:29:06,880
Department in a desperate attempt to

2446
01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:08,880
conceal his involvement in the Watergate

2447
01:29:08,880 --> 01:29:10,560
scandal. But it didn't quite pan out for

2448
01:29:10,560 --> 01:29:12,560
the embattled commander-in-chief. The

2449
01:29:12,560 --> 01:29:14,800
public was outraged by Nixon's behavior,

2450
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:17,120
and 21 members of Congress began calling

2451
01:29:17,120 --> 01:29:18,239
for his impeachment.

2452
01:29:18,239 --> 01:29:20,000
>> Hey, Fish,

2453
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:24,840
who loves you, baby. You're beautiful.

2454
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:28,000
>> Moving into November, beloved comedian

2455
01:29:28,000 --> 01:29:30,480
David Stringbean Aman and his wife

2456
01:29:30,480 --> 01:29:32,719
Estelle were gunned down by burglars in

2457
01:29:32,719 --> 01:29:34,400
their Nashville, Tennessee home on the

2458
01:29:34,400 --> 01:29:36,719
10th. Aman was a popular fixture at

2459
01:29:36,719 --> 01:29:38,880
Nashville's Grand Old Opry, as well as a

2460
01:29:38,880 --> 01:29:40,719
main cast member on Heihaw. The

2461
01:29:40,719 --> 01:29:42,800
murderers, cousins Marvin and John

2462
01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:45,280
Brown, had heard Aman kept large amounts

2463
01:29:45,280 --> 01:29:47,360
of cash on hand, so they broke into his

2464
01:29:47,360 --> 01:29:48,880
cabinet and waited for him to return

2465
01:29:48,880 --> 01:29:51,040
home, ambushing him in a stell as they

2466
01:29:51,040 --> 01:29:52,960
walked through the door. The Browns each

2467
01:29:52,960 --> 01:29:55,280
received two life sentences. And while

2468
01:29:55,280 --> 01:29:57,520
Marvin died in prison, John Brown would

2469
01:29:57,520 --> 01:29:59,679
eventually be parrolled after serving 41

2470
01:29:59,679 --> 01:30:02,400
years in 2014. Nixon delivered his

2471
01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:03,840
infamous quotes to a crowd of

2472
01:30:03,840 --> 01:30:05,679
journalists at Walt Disney World in

2473
01:30:05,679 --> 01:30:08,159
Orlando, Florida on November 17th,

2474
01:30:08,159 --> 01:30:09,120
saying the infamous

2475
01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:10,719
>> people have got to know whether or not

2476
01:30:10,719 --> 01:30:13,040
their president's a crook. Well, I'm not

2477
01:30:13,040 --> 01:30:15,840
a crook. I've earned everything I've

2478
01:30:15,840 --> 01:30:16,560
got.

2479
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:19,040
>> Your attention, please. We will soon be

2480
01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:21,760
landing at Westworld, the ultimate

2481
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:24,880
resort. Each resort is maintained by

2482
01:30:24,880 --> 01:30:28,000
reliable computer technology. Abducted

2483
01:30:28,000 --> 01:30:30,239
Getty heir John Paul Getty III was

2484
01:30:30,239 --> 01:30:31,920
finally freed by his capttors on

2485
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:34,159
December 15th. The kidnappers dropped

2486
01:30:34,159 --> 01:30:35,840
Paul off on the side of a stretch of

2487
01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:38,239
road in the middle of a downpour. Getty

2488
01:30:38,239 --> 01:30:40,080
never fully recovered from the incident.

2489
01:30:40,080 --> 01:30:41,679
He developed a serious drug addiction

2490
01:30:41,679 --> 01:30:43,600
that resulted in a tragic overdose in

2491
01:30:43,600 --> 01:30:46,400
1981 which left him paralyzed and unable

2492
01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:49,520
to speak. He passed away at age 54 in

2493
01:30:49,520 --> 01:30:51,199
2011.

2494
01:30:51,199 --> 01:30:53,120
>> Must have left my wallet in my room.

2495
01:30:53,120 --> 01:30:55,360
>> Don't hand me any of that crap. You

2496
01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:56,480
better have the money or it's going to

2497
01:30:56,480 --> 01:30:58,480
be all around Chicago that you welched.

2498
01:30:58,480 --> 01:30:59,920
You won't be able to get a game of

2499
01:30:59,920 --> 01:31:02,920
Jacks.

2500
01:31:09,980 --> 01:31:11,840
[Music]

2501
01:31:11,840 --> 01:31:15,280
>> And that's how 1973 came to a close with

2502
01:31:15,280 --> 01:31:19,199
a sting and a hiss of pea soup. 1974 was

2503
01:31:19,199 --> 01:31:21,520
grooving up over the horizon, bringing

2504
01:31:21,520 --> 01:31:23,040
with it the end of the Watergate

2505
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:25,199
scandal, the crowning of a new home run

2506
01:31:25,199 --> 01:31:27,120
king, and the abduction of another

2507
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:29,120
wealthy teenager that would go in a

2508
01:31:29,120 --> 01:31:31,280
shockingly different direction. But

2509
01:31:31,280 --> 01:31:34,400
that's all for next year. Coming soon,

2510
01:31:34,400 --> 01:31:36,560
1974.

2511
01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:39,840
1974 was the year everything changed.

2512
01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:41,679
>> Personally figured I was watching

2513
01:31:41,679 --> 01:31:43,199
something that somebody else would never

2514
01:31:43,199 --> 01:31:45,040
see again in the world. Americans

2515
01:31:45,040 --> 01:31:47,520
learned the president wasn't untouchable

2516
01:31:47,520 --> 01:31:49,440
or even that trustworthy, causing a

2517
01:31:49,440 --> 01:31:51,520
ripple effect of disillusionment. But

2518
01:31:51,520 --> 01:31:53,920
the year also saw a microbus full of

2519
01:31:53,920 --> 01:31:55,840
classic shows, movies, and music make

2520
01:31:55,840 --> 01:32:00,360
their mark on pop culture history.

2521
01:32:01,920 --> 01:32:04,080
>> And two sports heroes made the most

2522
01:32:04,080 --> 01:32:06,560
dramatic statements of their careers.

2523
01:32:06,560 --> 01:32:08,080
We're going to talk about the news,

2524
01:32:08,080 --> 01:32:10,080
culture, sports, and entertainment, and

2525
01:32:10,080 --> 01:32:13,600
all that was weird in the 70s. This is

2526
01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:16,600
timeline.

2527
01:32:21,440 --> 01:32:23,600
Get ready for an abrupt turnover at the

2528
01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:25,120
White House like you've never seen

2529
01:32:25,120 --> 01:32:28,960
before because today we're talking 1974.

2530
01:32:28,960 --> 01:32:30,800
Now, strap into your rocket cycle and

2531
01:32:30,800 --> 01:32:32,480
get ready to jump all the president's

2532
01:32:32,480 --> 01:32:37,000
men. This is 1974.

2533
01:32:37,440 --> 01:32:39,360
The year would start off as an important

2534
01:32:39,360 --> 01:32:41,600
moment for Nerdom as the fantasy role-

2535
01:32:41,600 --> 01:32:43,440
playinging game Dungeons and Dragons

2536
01:32:43,440 --> 01:32:46,239
made its debut in January. Initially

2537
01:32:46,239 --> 01:32:49,120
developed by Dave Arnison and Gary Gyax

2538
01:32:49,120 --> 01:32:51,199
and published by the group's homegrown

2539
01:32:51,199 --> 01:32:53,920
company, Tactical Studies Rules, Dn D

2540
01:32:53,920 --> 01:32:55,520
borrowed heavily from miniature

2541
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:57,840
wargaming and Tolken's Lord of the Rings

2542
01:32:57,840 --> 01:33:00,719
to become the first tabletop RPG. While

2543
01:33:00,719 --> 01:33:02,239
it initially frightened mothers around

2544
01:33:02,239 --> 01:33:04,400
the world, resulting in a brief satanic

2545
01:33:04,400 --> 01:33:06,800
panic and a pretty quaint movie starring

2546
01:33:06,800 --> 01:33:08,239
a young Tom Hanks.

2547
01:33:08,239 --> 01:33:10,719
>> I have spells I'm going to fly.

2548
01:33:10,719 --> 01:33:12,880
>> DN D has hung around like a lich in a

2549
01:33:12,880 --> 01:33:15,520
tomb for over 40 years, giving creative

2550
01:33:15,520 --> 01:33:17,360
nerds around the world a groovy new

2551
01:33:17,360 --> 01:33:20,400
social outlet. Decidedly ungroovy,

2552
01:33:20,400 --> 01:33:22,159
President Richard Nixon signed the

2553
01:33:22,159 --> 01:33:24,080
Emergency Highway Energy Conservation

2554
01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:26,000
Act on the second day of the year,

2555
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:28,320
creating a national speed limit of 55

2556
01:33:28,320 --> 01:33:31,040
mph. The act was a response to the OPEC

2557
01:33:31,040 --> 01:33:33,199
oil embargo enacted the previous year,

2558
01:33:33,199 --> 01:33:35,120
which threw the US into one of the worst

2559
01:33:35,120 --> 01:33:37,679
energy crises of the 20th century. The

2560
01:33:37,679 --> 01:33:39,600
new lower speed limit was meant to force

2561
01:33:39,600 --> 01:33:41,199
American drivers to be more fuel

2562
01:33:41,199 --> 01:33:43,040
efficient, and it stayed on the books

2563
01:33:43,040 --> 01:33:47,360
until November 28th, 1995, nearly 20

2564
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:48,159
years later.

2565
01:33:48,159 --> 01:33:50,159
>> Most people do travel over 55. Most

2566
01:33:50,159 --> 01:33:52,639
people that travel interstate go 60, 65,

2567
01:33:52,639 --> 01:33:53,760
or 70 anyway.

2568
01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:56,080
>> Apparently, lobbyist Sammy Hagar's work

2569
01:33:56,080 --> 01:33:59,040
finally paid off. Speaking of music, the

2570
01:33:59,040 --> 01:34:01,440
Joker by Steve Miller Band hit the top

2571
01:34:01,440 --> 01:34:03,760
of the Billboard Hot 100 on January

2572
01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:06,320
12th. The meta stoner anthem, peppered

2573
01:34:06,320 --> 01:34:08,080
with references to the band's earlier

2574
01:34:08,080 --> 01:34:10,239
songs and a hall of fame nonsense word

2575
01:34:10,239 --> 01:34:12,320
has sold over 5 million copies in the

2576
01:34:12,320 --> 01:34:14,400
US. We still don't know what the hell a

2577
01:34:14,400 --> 01:34:16,480
pompetus is, but we dig it.

2578
01:34:16,480 --> 01:34:18,080
>> Can I talk to you for a minute, FS

2579
01:34:18,080 --> 01:34:18,639
outside?

2580
01:34:18,639 --> 01:34:20,080
>> Yeah, we'll talk right here.

2581
01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:21,760
>> Well, it's kind of personal.

2582
01:34:21,760 --> 01:34:24,080
>> Oh, personal? Yeah. Hey, Vivian, go out

2583
01:34:24,080 --> 01:34:26,800
and find me a fallen star, will you?

2584
01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:28,000
back in 5 minutes.

2585
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:29,199
>> I don't have a watch.

2586
01:34:29,199 --> 01:34:32,639
>> Hey, count one, Mississippi.

2587
01:34:32,639 --> 01:34:34,320
>> She's got great lips.

2588
01:34:34,320 --> 01:34:36,400
>> What's the worth of a man? For Steve

2589
01:34:36,400 --> 01:34:40,400
Austin, it's $6 million. Steve Austin is

2590
01:34:40,400 --> 01:34:42,960
the $6 million man, and he's worth every

2591
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:44,639
penny.

2592
01:34:44,639 --> 01:34:47,840
>> In late January, McDonald's CEO Ray Croc

2593
01:34:47,840 --> 01:34:49,440
threw down a few stacks of his

2594
01:34:49,440 --> 01:34:51,920
McMillions to buy MLB's San Diego

2595
01:34:51,920 --> 01:34:54,000
Padres's. Krock, who had retired from

2596
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:55,600
running the Golden Arches the previous

2597
01:34:55,600 --> 01:34:57,679
year, made quite the steal, purchasing

2598
01:34:57,679 --> 01:35:00,320
the pod for a cool $12 million,

2599
01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:01,679
preventing a move that would have

2600
01:35:01,679 --> 01:35:03,440
relocated the Padres's to Washington,

2601
01:35:03,440 --> 01:35:06,159
DC. Heading into the 1st of February,

2602
01:35:06,159 --> 01:35:08,239
21-year-old University of Washington

2603
01:35:08,239 --> 01:35:10,800
student Linda Anne Healey vanished from

2604
01:35:10,800 --> 01:35:12,639
her apartment in the early morning hours

2605
01:35:12,639 --> 01:35:14,960
of February 1st. Healey's remains were

2606
01:35:14,960 --> 01:35:16,560
discovered by forestry students on

2607
01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:18,320
Taylor Mountain in Soma County,

2608
01:35:18,320 --> 01:35:21,120
California a year later. Although nobody

2609
01:35:21,120 --> 01:35:23,120
knew it yet, Healey was the first

2610
01:35:23,120 --> 01:35:25,840
documented victim of Ted Bundy. Bundy

2611
01:35:25,840 --> 01:35:28,159
was not done wreaking havoc. More on him

2612
01:35:28,159 --> 01:35:31,199
to come later in the 70s. The next day,

2613
01:35:31,199 --> 01:35:33,360
pop icon Barbara Streryand scored her

2614
01:35:33,360 --> 01:35:35,440
first number one hit with The Way We

2615
01:35:35,440 --> 01:35:37,040
Were, which hit the top spot on the

2616
01:35:37,040 --> 01:35:39,360
Billboard Hot 100. The first EGOT

2617
01:35:39,360 --> 01:35:41,520
winner, that's Emmys, Grammy, Oscar, and

2618
01:35:41,520 --> 01:35:43,679
Tony, was already an established singer

2619
01:35:43,679 --> 01:35:45,760
and actress. In fact, The Way We Were

2620
01:35:45,760 --> 01:35:48,239
was the theme song of the 1973 film of

2621
01:35:48,239 --> 01:35:50,800
the same name, which starred Strand and

2622
01:35:50,800 --> 01:35:53,040
earned her a second Oscar nomination for

2623
01:35:53,040 --> 01:35:56,480
best actress. The 70s Were Good to Babs.

2624
01:35:56,480 --> 01:35:59,199
2 days later, 19-year-old Aerys Patty

2625
01:35:59,199 --> 01:36:01,360
Hurst was abducted from her apartment by

2626
01:36:01,360 --> 01:36:04,000
the Symbian Liberation Army on February

2627
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:06,400
4th. The leftist terrorist organization

2628
01:36:06,400 --> 01:36:08,159
dragged Hurst, who was millionaire

2629
01:36:08,159 --> 01:36:09,920
publisher William Randph Hurst's

2630
01:36:09,920 --> 01:36:12,080
granddaughter, enter their car in a hail

2631
01:36:12,080 --> 01:36:14,400
of gunfire and demanded that the Hurst

2632
01:36:14,400 --> 01:36:16,239
family distribute millions of dollars of

2633
01:36:16,239 --> 01:36:18,719
food to needy people across California.

2634
01:36:18,719 --> 01:36:20,719
Mr. Hurst wants to save his daughter.

2635
01:36:20,719 --> 01:36:22,800
Each Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday for

2636
01:36:22,800 --> 01:36:24,960
four successive weeks, each person with

2637
01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:26,560
one of the listed cards can go to

2638
01:36:26,560 --> 01:36:28,560
publicized stores and pick up their

2639
01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:28,960
food.

2640
01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:31,199
>> The family attempted to comply, but the

2641
01:36:31,199 --> 01:36:33,360
kidnappers didn't release Patty.

2642
01:36:33,360 --> 01:36:35,760
Something much more unexpected happened.

2643
01:36:35,760 --> 01:36:37,600
2 months after her abduction, a

2644
01:36:37,600 --> 01:36:39,280
surveillance camera caught Hurst helping

2645
01:36:39,280 --> 01:36:42,320
the SLA rob a bank in San Francisco. She

2646
01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:43,920
then released a statement declaring that

2647
01:36:43,920 --> 01:36:45,280
she had willingly joined the

2648
01:36:45,280 --> 01:36:46,400
organization.

2649
01:36:46,400 --> 01:36:48,320
>> I have been given the choice of one,

2650
01:36:48,320 --> 01:36:51,679
being released in a safe area or two,

2651
01:36:51,679 --> 01:36:53,520
joining the forces of the Cybian

2652
01:36:53,520 --> 01:36:55,679
Liberation Army. I have chosen to stay

2653
01:36:55,679 --> 01:36:56,480
and fight.

2654
01:36:56,480 --> 01:36:58,320
>> This cliffhanger plot twist will finish

2655
01:36:58,320 --> 01:37:01,199
playing out next year.

2656
01:37:01,199 --> 01:37:03,520
We'll be right back.

2657
01:37:03,520 --> 01:37:05,280
[Music]

2658
01:37:05,280 --> 01:37:07,280
>> You are about to witness the most

2659
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amazing man-made jewelry ever created.

2660
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The original multicolor mood ring. This

2661
01:37:12,719 --> 01:37:14,480
is the ring that senses your deepest

2662
01:37:14,480 --> 01:37:16,800
feelings. Scientifically developed, the

2663
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incredible chromosone senses thermal

2664
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changes deep within your body. Reflects

2665
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all your mood changes in a fascinating

2666
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kaleidoscope of color. Discover the

2667
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mysterious powers of the multiolor mood

2668
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2669
01:37:29,679 --> 01:37:32,000
settings. Dare to wear the original

2670
01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:34,400
multiolor mood ring with the fascinating

2671
01:37:34,400 --> 01:37:37,119
chroma stone. Only $5 while supplies

2672
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last.

2673
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>> Boy, is he strict.

2674
01:37:40,480 --> 01:37:42,239
>> Got to get in there clothes and find out

2675
01:37:42,239 --> 01:37:44,480
what's happening. There's our ticket.

2676
01:37:44,480 --> 01:37:47,040
>> Hey boys,

2677
01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:50,480
look what I got here.

2678
01:37:50,480 --> 01:37:53,679
Hey, where are the white women at?

2679
01:37:53,679 --> 01:37:56,719
To be a TV star, you got to be a real

2680
01:37:56,719 --> 01:37:59,520
natural. My husband James used to have

2681
01:37:59,520 --> 01:38:01,040
slow blood.

2682
01:38:01,040 --> 01:38:03,360
>> Thanks to Vitbrite Health Tonic, my

2683
01:38:03,360 --> 01:38:06,080
blood is fast, fast, fast. Vital

2684
01:38:06,080 --> 01:38:09,760
Brightite is dino might.

2685
01:38:09,760 --> 01:38:12,320
>> Jaws made a bodacious splash in the

2686
01:38:12,320 --> 01:38:14,639
world of shark fiction on the 10th. The

2687
01:38:14,639 --> 01:38:16,239
best-selling thriller written by

2688
01:38:16,239 --> 01:38:18,480
firsttime novelist Peter Benshley caused

2689
01:38:18,480 --> 01:38:20,320
a feeding frenzy among Hollywood

2690
01:38:20,320 --> 01:38:22,480
executives. The film rights to the story

2691
01:38:22,480 --> 01:38:24,880
were sold before it even hit bookstores.

2692
01:38:24,880 --> 01:38:27,040
Producers at Universal Studios hired an

2693
01:38:27,040 --> 01:38:28,960
upand- cominging filmmaker named Steven

2694
01:38:28,960 --> 01:38:31,280
Spielberg to direct the movie version.

2695
01:38:31,280 --> 01:38:32,960
We'll see if that film did anything next

2696
01:38:32,960 --> 01:38:36,239
year. Speaking of buzz, Army Private

2697
01:38:36,239 --> 01:38:38,480
Robert K. Preston buzzed the White House

2698
01:38:38,480 --> 01:38:41,679
in a stolen helicopter on February 17th.

2699
01:38:41,679 --> 01:38:43,360
The 20-year-old soldier led police

2700
01:38:43,360 --> 01:38:44,880
helicopters on a chase through the

2701
01:38:44,880 --> 01:38:46,800
National Mall before the Secret Service

2702
01:38:46,800 --> 01:38:49,040
opened fire on him, forcing him to land

2703
01:38:49,040 --> 01:38:50,960
on the White House's South Lawn with

2704
01:38:50,960 --> 01:38:51,920
minor injuries.

2705
01:38:51,920 --> 01:38:54,639
>> Intentions was to uh fly the aircraft

2706
01:38:54,639 --> 01:38:56,159
directly into the White House.

2707
01:38:56,159 --> 01:38:57,920
>> Preston later claimed that he had joined

2708
01:38:57,920 --> 01:39:00,080
the army hoping to become a helicopter

2709
01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:02,239
pilot and was upset that he'd been made

2710
01:39:02,239 --> 01:39:04,480
a mechanic instead. Well, that's one way

2711
01:39:04,480 --> 01:39:06,080
to show them what you got. Preston

2712
01:39:06,080 --> 01:39:07,760
ultimately served two months in prison

2713
01:39:07,760 --> 01:39:11,760
and was dishonorably discharged. Bummer.

2714
01:39:11,760 --> 01:39:14,400
Speaking of broken dreams, Sher split

2715
01:39:14,400 --> 01:39:16,960
from Sunny Bono on the 20th, ending the

2716
01:39:16,960 --> 01:39:18,880
musical power couple after more than a

2717
01:39:18,880 --> 01:39:21,199
decade in the spotlight. As a duo, Sunny

2718
01:39:21,199 --> 01:39:22,880
and Sher released their number one hit,

2719
01:39:22,880 --> 01:39:25,280
I Got You, Babe, and hosted a popular

2720
01:39:25,280 --> 01:39:27,119
variety show featuring their playful

2721
01:39:27,119 --> 01:39:27,679
bickering.

2722
01:39:27,679 --> 01:39:29,199
>> Folks, I could have sang in any one of

2723
01:39:29,199 --> 01:39:31,920
those musicals really, because I Yeah, I

2724
01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:33,760
know one you would have been great for,

2725
01:39:33,760 --> 01:39:35,040
The Wizard of Oz.

2726
01:39:35,040 --> 01:39:36,880
>> Apparently, that bickering wasn't all

2727
01:39:36,880 --> 01:39:38,800
that playful. The two were already

2728
01:39:38,800 --> 01:39:40,560
living in separate homes by the show's

2729
01:39:40,560 --> 01:39:42,239
third season and were officially

2730
01:39:42,239 --> 01:39:45,119
divorced one year later. Jumping ahead

2731
01:39:45,119 --> 01:39:47,119
to late March, a group of Chinese

2732
01:39:47,119 --> 01:39:49,280
farmers digging a well just outside of

2733
01:39:49,280 --> 01:39:52,000
Shian discovered an underground chamber

2734
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:54,800
containing 6,000 life-sized Terracotta

2735
01:39:54,800 --> 01:39:56,960
warriors. On the 29th, the famous

2736
01:39:56,960 --> 01:39:58,880
Terracotta army was revealed to be

2737
01:39:58,880 --> 01:40:00,560
guarding the tomb of the first emperor

2738
01:40:00,560 --> 01:40:02,960
of the Sheen dynasty, who ruled back in

2739
01:40:02,960 --> 01:40:05,679
221 B.CE. The site turned out to be a

2740
01:40:05,679 --> 01:40:08,320
sprawling 20-mile complex containing a

2741
01:40:08,320 --> 01:40:11,119
palace, a burial pyramid, offices, and

2742
01:40:11,119 --> 01:40:13,040
two other pits containing even more

2743
01:40:13,040 --> 01:40:16,080
terracotta warriors. Far out. Heading

2744
01:40:16,080 --> 01:40:18,800
into April, Swedish pop group ABBA won

2745
01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:21,040
the Eurovvision Song Contest on the 6th

2746
01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:23,520
with their song Waterlue. It was the

2747
01:40:23,520 --> 01:40:25,760
first Eurovision victory in Sweden's

2748
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:27,280
history, and it turned out to be the

2749
01:40:27,280 --> 01:40:28,800
breakthrough moment the band was looking

2750
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:31,199
for. Waterlue became an international

2751
01:40:31,199 --> 01:40:33,440
hit and made ABBA superstars and the

2752
01:40:33,440 --> 01:40:34,800
group remains one of the most popular

2753
01:40:34,800 --> 01:40:37,600
and bestselling acts of all time.

2754
01:40:37,600 --> 01:40:39,920
Speaking of alltime moments, we turn to

2755
01:40:39,920 --> 01:40:42,080
sports as Hammer and Hank Aaron broke

2756
01:40:42,080 --> 01:40:44,239
Babe Ruth's career home run record two

2757
01:40:44,239 --> 01:40:45,199
days later.

2758
01:40:45,199 --> 01:40:47,520
>> What a marvelous moment for the country

2759
01:40:47,520 --> 01:40:50,639
and the world. A black man is getting a

2760
01:40:50,639 --> 01:40:53,520
standing ovation in the deep south for

2761
01:40:53,520 --> 01:40:56,239
breaking a record of an all-time

2762
01:40:56,239 --> 01:40:58,320
baseball idol. In the fourth inning

2763
01:40:58,320 --> 01:41:00,400
against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the

2764
01:41:00,400 --> 01:41:02,800
Braves star right fielder spanked his

2765
01:41:02,800 --> 01:41:06,080
715th dinger at Atlanta's Fulton County

2766
01:41:06,080 --> 01:41:08,159
Stadium. Aaron finished his baseball

2767
01:41:08,159 --> 01:41:11,600
career with a staggering 755 homers, a

2768
01:41:11,600 --> 01:41:13,600
record that stood for just over 31 years

2769
01:41:13,600 --> 01:41:15,760
until San Francisco Giant slugger Barry

2770
01:41:15,760 --> 01:41:18,880
Bonds broke it in August of 2007. But,

2771
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:21,760
you know, juicing. Three months after

2772
01:41:21,760 --> 01:41:23,760
abducting Patty Hurst, the Symbion

2773
01:41:23,760 --> 01:41:26,239
Liberation Army engaged the LAPD in one

2774
01:41:26,239 --> 01:41:28,000
of the largest police shootouts in

2775
01:41:28,000 --> 01:41:31,760
history on May 17th.

2776
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:32,800
Come out now.

2777
01:41:32,800 --> 01:41:35,760
>> 500 Los Angeles officers raided an SLA

2778
01:41:35,760 --> 01:41:38,000
safe house in Compton, resulting in an

2779
01:41:38,000 --> 01:41:39,920
explosive exchange during which more

2780
01:41:39,920 --> 01:41:42,320
than 9,000 rounds were fired. Police

2781
01:41:42,320 --> 01:41:43,920
accidentally set fire to the house

2782
01:41:43,920 --> 01:41:46,000
during the gunfight, which burned to the

2783
01:41:46,000 --> 01:41:48,480
ground as all six SLA members inside

2784
01:41:48,480 --> 01:41:51,199
perished. Near the end of May, legendary

2785
01:41:51,199 --> 01:41:53,840
jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington

2786
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:56,159
passed away. Ellington, who had just

2787
01:41:56,159 --> 01:41:58,560
turned 75 the previous month, is one of

2788
01:41:58,560 --> 01:42:00,320
the biggest figures in jazz music

2789
01:42:00,320 --> 01:42:02,880
history. He popularized big band jazz

2790
01:42:02,880 --> 01:42:05,119
music as a regular fixture at Harlem's

2791
01:42:05,119 --> 01:42:07,360
Cotton Club. and as a sought-after band

2792
01:42:07,360 --> 01:42:09,360
leader and a songwriter for over 50

2793
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:12,719
years. Heading into June, arguably the

2794
01:42:12,719 --> 01:42:14,880
most illconceived promotion in sports

2795
01:42:14,880 --> 01:42:17,360
history went down on the 4th, otherwise

2796
01:42:17,360 --> 01:42:19,679
known as 10 cent beer night. The

2797
01:42:19,679 --> 01:42:21,760
Cleveland Indians lured fans to a game

2798
01:42:21,760 --> 01:42:23,520
against the Houston Astros by offering

2799
01:42:23,520 --> 01:42:25,520
as much beer as they could drink for

2800
01:42:25,520 --> 01:42:28,000
just a dime a pop. Fans became so drunk

2801
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:30,239
and unruly that an actual riot broke out

2802
01:42:30,239 --> 01:42:32,239
in the ninth inning with people rushing

2803
01:42:32,239 --> 01:42:34,159
out onto the field to attack the players

2804
01:42:34,159 --> 01:42:36,159
with makeshift weapons. It's pretty poor

2805
01:42:36,159 --> 01:42:38,320
timing for a beer night to start with

2806
01:42:38,320 --> 01:42:40,239
after the incident in Dallas where the

2807
01:42:40,239 --> 01:42:42,320
two teams uh fought led to a very

2808
01:42:42,320 --> 01:42:43,600
unpleasant situation.

2809
01:42:43,600 --> 01:42:45,280
>> The Indians were forced to forfeit the

2810
01:42:45,280 --> 01:42:47,840
game and a firm four drink limit was

2811
01:42:47,840 --> 01:42:49,600
placed on the remaining 10-cent beer

2812
01:42:49,600 --> 01:42:52,000
nights Cleveland had already scheduled.

2813
01:42:52,000 --> 01:42:54,480
In midJune, Washington Post reporters

2814
01:42:54,480 --> 01:42:56,480
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

2815
01:42:56,480 --> 01:42:58,320
published their explosive non-fiction

2816
01:42:58,320 --> 01:43:00,560
bestseller, All the President's Men. The

2817
01:43:00,560 --> 01:43:02,000
book was a detailed collection of the

2818
01:43:02,000 --> 01:43:03,840
duo's ongoing investigation of the

2819
01:43:03,840 --> 01:43:06,000
Watergate scandal, including Woodward's

2820
01:43:06,000 --> 01:43:08,000
meetings with the mysterious [ __ ]

2821
01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:09,760
an inside source who provided the

2822
01:43:09,760 --> 01:43:11,920
journalists with vital information.

2823
01:43:11,920 --> 01:43:14,159
[ __ ] was later revealed to be FBI

2824
01:43:14,159 --> 01:43:16,480
associate director Mark Felt, although

2825
01:43:16,480 --> 01:43:18,480
Woodward and Bernstein kept his identity

2826
01:43:18,480 --> 01:43:20,560
a secret until Felt revealed it himself

2827
01:43:20,560 --> 01:43:25,159
in 2005 at the age of 91.

2828
01:43:25,280 --> 01:43:28,880
>> We'll be right back.

2829
01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:30,800
By reaching out to see things

2830
01:43:30,800 --> 01:43:33,440
differently, man's genius is now helping

2831
01:43:33,440 --> 01:43:35,600
to free him from his earthly home. The

2832
01:43:35,600 --> 01:43:38,080
amazing electronic devices like this one

2833
01:43:38,080 --> 01:43:40,800
designed for quazar color TV. It's part

2834
01:43:40,800 --> 01:43:43,760
of our continuing improvement in 100%

2835
01:43:43,760 --> 01:43:46,239
solid state design where solid state

2836
01:43:46,239 --> 01:43:48,480
devices contribute to your confidence in

2837
01:43:48,480 --> 01:43:53,030
the set you buy. Reach out for

2838
01:43:53,030 --> 01:43:54,719
[Music]

2839
01:43:54,719 --> 01:43:57,840
>> the first universal product code or UPC

2840
01:43:57,840 --> 01:44:00,639
code was scanned on June 26th in Troy,

2841
01:44:00,639 --> 01:44:03,520
Ohio to sell a pack of Wrigley's chewing

2842
01:44:03,520 --> 01:44:05,920
gum. The now ubiquitous codes were

2843
01:44:05,920 --> 01:44:07,679
designed by two Drexel University

2844
01:44:07,679 --> 01:44:09,840
graduate students to create a streamline

2845
01:44:09,840 --> 01:44:11,679
system for grocery stores to price and

2846
01:44:11,679 --> 01:44:13,520
track their inventory because people

2847
01:44:13,520 --> 01:44:16,000
used to have to do all that by hand.

2848
01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:18,960
Speaking of bold ideas, General Austo

2849
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:21,600
Pinocha declared himself Supreme Chief

2850
01:44:21,600 --> 01:44:24,000
Chile the next day after seizing power

2851
01:44:24,000 --> 01:44:26,159
from President Salvador Alende in a

2852
01:44:26,159 --> 01:44:28,159
military coup the previous year.

2853
01:44:28,159 --> 01:44:30,080
Initially, Pinocha was meant to share

2854
01:44:30,080 --> 01:44:31,840
power with other members of the Huna,

2855
01:44:31,840 --> 01:44:33,520
but he quickly decided that it was best

2856
01:44:33,520 --> 01:44:35,679
for everyone if he ran the whole thing.

2857
01:44:35,679 --> 01:44:38,480
Pinoa remained dictator of Chile until

2858
01:44:38,480 --> 01:44:40,560
he was actually voted out of power and

2859
01:44:40,560 --> 01:44:42,880
democracy was restored on March 11th,

2860
01:44:42,880 --> 01:44:45,199
1990. Binocha stuck around as the

2861
01:44:45,199 --> 01:44:46,880
commander-in-chief of Chile's armed

2862
01:44:46,880 --> 01:44:49,440
forces until 1998 when he was finally

2863
01:44:49,440 --> 01:44:51,600
arrested for crimes against humanity.

2864
01:44:51,600 --> 01:44:54,000
But a wall of international red tape and

2865
01:44:54,000 --> 01:44:55,600
his failing health kept him out of

2866
01:44:55,600 --> 01:44:58,159
prison until he passed away in 2006

2867
01:44:58,159 --> 01:45:00,800
before he could stand trial. 3 weeks

2868
01:45:00,800 --> 01:45:03,119
later, former Beatle John Lennon was

2869
01:45:03,119 --> 01:45:05,280
ordered to vacate the United States in

2870
01:45:05,280 --> 01:45:08,560
60 days on the 18th of Hey July. Yeah.

2871
01:45:08,560 --> 01:45:09,920
Yeah. We know he didn't write that song,

2872
01:45:09,920 --> 01:45:11,920
but he should have. Come on. It's about

2873
01:45:11,920 --> 01:45:14,400
his son. The deportation stemmed from a

2874
01:45:14,400 --> 01:45:17,040
1968 marijuana charge the songwriter had

2875
01:45:17,040 --> 01:45:19,280
received in the UK. Lennon's strong

2876
01:45:19,280 --> 01:45:21,360
anti-war stance, coupled with his

2877
01:45:21,360 --> 01:45:23,520
popularity among young Americans, made

2878
01:45:23,520 --> 01:45:24,960
him a target of the Nixon

2879
01:45:24,960 --> 01:45:27,040
administration, who believed he posed a

2880
01:45:27,040 --> 01:45:29,199
serious threat to Nixon's re-election.

2881
01:45:29,199 --> 01:45:30,800
But the Walrus wouldn't have to sweat

2882
01:45:30,800 --> 01:45:32,800
Tricky Dick much longer. More on that

2883
01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:34,719
after a quick word from Charles Bronson

2884
01:45:34,719 --> 01:45:36,080
and the professor.

2885
01:45:36,080 --> 01:45:38,480
>> This is the story of a man who decided

2886
01:45:38,480 --> 01:45:41,360
to clean up the most violent town in the

2887
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:45,920
world. Never make a death wish because a

2888
01:45:45,920 --> 01:45:49,520
death wish always comes true.

2889
01:45:49,520 --> 01:45:51,440
>> In a story forced upon us by our

2890
01:45:51,440 --> 01:45:53,520
producer Neil Per officially joined the

2891
01:45:53,520 --> 01:45:56,000
band Rush in late July. Per hopped on

2892
01:45:56,000 --> 01:45:57,760
the Canadian Power Rock Trio after

2893
01:45:57,760 --> 01:45:59,840
original drummer left the band due to a

2894
01:45:59,840 --> 01:46:01,920
lifelong illness. The professor would

2895
01:46:01,920 --> 01:46:04,239
stay with the band for over 40 years.

2896
01:46:04,239 --> 01:46:06,880
Not a bad run. Moving into August,

2897
01:46:06,880 --> 01:46:09,040
Richard Milhouse Nixon made history on

2898
01:46:09,040 --> 01:46:11,040
the 8th when he announced to the

2899
01:46:11,040 --> 01:46:13,040
American people his intention to resign

2900
01:46:13,040 --> 01:46:15,199
from the office of the presidency the

2901
01:46:15,199 --> 01:46:16,000
next day.

2902
01:46:16,000 --> 01:46:18,159
>> I shall resign the presidency effective

2903
01:46:18,159 --> 01:46:19,520
at noon tomorrow.

2904
01:46:19,520 --> 01:46:21,600
>> Nixon had finally turned over his tapes

2905
01:46:21,600 --> 01:46:23,600
of recorded conversations in the Oval

2906
01:46:23,600 --> 01:46:25,840
Office to the Justice Department 3 days

2907
01:46:25,840 --> 01:46:28,639
earlier, the content of which undeniably

2908
01:46:28,639 --> 01:46:31,119
incriminated him as a co-conspirator in

2909
01:46:31,119 --> 01:46:32,960
the Watergate break-in and subsequent

2910
01:46:32,960 --> 01:46:35,440
coverup. Spiro Agnu, Nixon's vice

2911
01:46:35,440 --> 01:46:37,280
president, had resigned a year earlier

2912
01:46:37,280 --> 01:46:39,520
in disgrace while pleading no contest to

2913
01:46:39,520 --> 01:46:41,920
an unrelated charge of tax evasion.

2914
01:46:41,920 --> 01:46:44,239
Gerald Ford was sworn in moments after

2915
01:46:44,239 --> 01:46:46,480
Nixon's resignation and gave the former

2916
01:46:46,480 --> 01:46:48,159
president a blanket pardon for any

2917
01:46:48,159 --> 01:46:50,880
crimes committed while in office. 8 days

2918
01:46:50,880 --> 01:46:53,440
later, punk godfathers, the Ramones,

2919
01:46:53,440 --> 01:46:55,440
made their concert debut at New York

2920
01:46:55,440 --> 01:46:58,560
City's CBGB on the 16th. Often credited

2921
01:46:58,560 --> 01:47:00,719
with being the first punk rock band, the

2922
01:47:00,719 --> 01:47:03,040
group churned out classics like Blitz

2923
01:47:03,040 --> 01:47:05,760
Creek Bop and I Want to Be Sedated over

2924
01:47:05,760 --> 01:47:07,920
a two decade career of non-stop touring

2925
01:47:07,920 --> 01:47:09,679
and recording. They're considered one of

2926
01:47:09,679 --> 01:47:11,440
the most influential artists of the past

2927
01:47:11,440 --> 01:47:13,520
50 years, which is pretty groovy for a

2928
01:47:13,520 --> 01:47:14,960
band that never had much commercial

2929
01:47:14,960 --> 01:47:17,760
success. Hero pilot Charles Lindberg

2930
01:47:17,760 --> 01:47:20,000
took his final flight on August 26th,

2931
01:47:20,000 --> 01:47:22,800
passing into the clouds at age 72. Lucky

2932
01:47:22,800 --> 01:47:24,400
Lindy made history in his small

2933
01:47:24,400 --> 01:47:26,719
monoplane, the Spirit of St. Lewis when

2934
01:47:26,719 --> 01:47:28,320
he became the first person to complete a

2935
01:47:28,320 --> 01:47:30,320
solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean on

2936
01:47:30,320 --> 01:47:33,440
May 21st, 1927. He made history a second

2937
01:47:33,440 --> 01:47:35,119
time under much more tragic

2938
01:47:35,119 --> 01:47:37,360
circumstances when his young son was

2939
01:47:37,360 --> 01:47:39,600
abducted from his home on March 1st,

2940
01:47:39,600 --> 01:47:42,000
1932 and found dead several months

2941
01:47:42,000 --> 01:47:44,159
later. The kidnapping and subsequent

2942
01:47:44,159 --> 01:47:46,159
slaying of Charles Jr. became known as

2943
01:47:46,159 --> 01:47:49,040
the crime of the century. Staying with

2944
01:47:49,040 --> 01:47:51,280
aviation news as we move into September.

2945
01:47:51,280 --> 01:47:54,000
The SR71 Blackbird flew from New York

2946
01:47:54,000 --> 01:47:56,320
City to London in under two hours on the

2947
01:47:56,320 --> 01:47:58,320
1st of September, setting the speed

2948
01:47:58,320 --> 01:48:00,560
record for transatlantic travel that

2949
01:48:00,560 --> 01:48:02,719
stands to this day. The Lockheed Jet,

2950
01:48:02,719 --> 01:48:04,719
piloted by Air Force majors James

2951
01:48:04,719 --> 01:48:06,880
Sullivan and Null Whitfield completed

2952
01:48:06,880 --> 01:48:09,280
its journey in 1 hour and 45 minutes,

2953
01:48:09,280 --> 01:48:10,880
touching down in London in less time

2954
01:48:10,880 --> 01:48:12,400
than it takes to watch a Grateful Dead

2955
01:48:12,400 --> 01:48:13,520
concert.

2956
01:48:13,520 --> 01:48:15,520
>> Wow. Where does it go? Come on, let's go

2957
01:48:15,520 --> 01:48:17,840
down and see. The time doorway cannot be

2958
01:48:17,840 --> 01:48:20,800
used for anything until this paradox is

2959
01:48:20,800 --> 01:48:21,440
resolved.

2960
01:48:21,440 --> 01:48:23,040
>> But that means we'll be killed.

2961
01:48:23,040 --> 01:48:25,360
>> You have a fine grasp of the obvious.

2962
01:48:25,360 --> 01:48:28,320
Legendary daredevil and every7s boy hero

2963
01:48:28,320 --> 01:48:30,560
evil conval attempted to jump a rocket

2964
01:48:30,560 --> 01:48:32,560
powered motorcycle over Idaho's Snake

2965
01:48:32,560 --> 01:48:34,960
River Canyon on September 8th. The stunt

2966
01:48:34,960 --> 01:48:36,880
was actually a compromise. Conneal had

2967
01:48:36,880 --> 01:48:38,239
originally intended to jump the Grand

2968
01:48:38,239 --> 01:48:41,679
Canyon, but the man told him absolutely

2969
01:48:41,679 --> 01:48:44,080
not. Suits, they always harsh everyone's

2970
01:48:44,080 --> 01:48:46,400
groove. Unfortunately, a parachute

2971
01:48:46,400 --> 01:48:48,400
deployed too early, cutting the jump

2972
01:48:48,400 --> 01:48:51,040
short in less than spectacular fashion.

2973
01:48:51,040 --> 01:48:52,639
>> When I punched that fire button and that

2974
01:48:52,639 --> 01:48:54,960
thing hit and all I saw was blue sky,

2975
01:48:54,960 --> 01:48:57,760
but then I lost all perspective. I may

2976
01:48:57,760 --> 01:48:59,280
have blacked out. I don't know.

2977
01:48:59,280 --> 01:49:01,600
>> Luckily and for once, Geneva walked away

2978
01:49:01,600 --> 01:49:04,000
with relatively minor injury.

2979
01:49:04,000 --> 01:49:05,840
>> It's all right. Everything's all right.

2980
01:49:05,840 --> 01:49:07,600
What?

2981
01:49:07,600 --> 01:49:10,159
There were two raccoons.

2982
01:49:10,159 --> 01:49:12,000
The one that killed the chickens. It's

2983
01:49:12,000 --> 01:49:13,679
Jasper out there now. He set up and

2984
01:49:13,679 --> 01:49:15,360
begged. It was the prettiest site I ever

2985
01:49:15,360 --> 01:49:16,159
saw.

2986
01:49:16,159 --> 01:49:17,440
>> Why don't you guys go back to

2987
01:49:17,440 --> 01:49:19,119
Disneyland? Leave me alone. Huh?

2988
01:49:19,119 --> 01:49:20,880
>> Well, I hope nobody forgot the peanut

2989
01:49:20,880 --> 01:49:23,199
butter sandwiches. If Agent Slater lays

2990
01:49:23,199 --> 01:49:24,880
a hand on me, I'm going to close it up

2991
01:49:24,880 --> 01:49:26,320
like a cherry stone. You're going to be

2992
01:49:26,320 --> 01:49:27,920
talking to my lawyer who's doing your

2993
01:49:27,920 --> 01:49:30,239
material. It's really monotonous.

2994
01:49:30,239 --> 01:49:32,560
>> The month of October would begin with a

2995
01:49:32,560 --> 01:49:35,040
landmark horror film.

2996
01:49:35,040 --> 01:49:37,119
>> What happened was true, just as

2997
01:49:37,119 --> 01:49:40,719
terrifying as being there. The Texas

2998
01:49:40,719 --> 01:49:43,119
Chainsaw Massacre. After you stop

2999
01:49:43,119 --> 01:49:45,199
screaming, you'll start talking about

3000
01:49:45,199 --> 01:49:46,239
it.

3001
01:49:46,239 --> 01:49:48,480
>> TV lost one of its most influential

3002
01:49:48,480 --> 01:49:50,880
figures on October 13th when popular

3003
01:49:50,880 --> 01:49:53,040
variety show host Ed Sullivan passed

3004
01:49:53,040 --> 01:49:55,920
away at age 73. Sullivan's aonomous

3005
01:49:55,920 --> 01:49:58,000
weekly program, The Ed Sullivan Show,

3006
01:49:58,000 --> 01:50:00,960
had ended just 3 years earlier in 1971.

3007
01:50:00,960 --> 01:50:05,199
That's one way to enjoy retirement.

3008
01:50:05,199 --> 01:50:09,119
>> We'll be right back.

3009
01:50:09,119 --> 01:50:11,840
>> You can go to day or night. The food is

3010
01:50:11,840 --> 01:50:14,159
good, the price is right. You can eat

3011
01:50:14,159 --> 01:50:15,760
dinner anytime

3012
01:50:15,760 --> 01:50:18,960
>> and you can dine for $1.99 at Samos. Now

3013
01:50:18,960 --> 01:50:20,880
till May 11th, our dinner special is

3014
01:50:20,880 --> 01:50:23,199
Sambo's all beef chopped steak, chili

3015
01:50:23,199 --> 01:50:25,679
and beans, soup or salad, dinner bread,

3016
01:50:25,679 --> 01:50:28,810
beverage, and dessert.

3017
01:50:28,810 --> 01:50:32,880
[Music]

3018
01:50:32,880 --> 01:50:35,040
>> The United States Air Force got into the

3019
01:50:35,040 --> 01:50:37,040
Halloween spirit by launching one of the

3020
01:50:37,040 --> 01:50:39,040
most frightening weapons in history on

3021
01:50:39,040 --> 01:50:41,920
October 25th. An ICBM or

3022
01:50:41,920 --> 01:50:44,080
intercontinental ballistic missile was

3023
01:50:44,080 --> 01:50:45,679
successfully dropped from a plane for

3024
01:50:45,679 --> 01:50:47,600
the first time as part of America's

3025
01:50:47,600 --> 01:50:49,679
strategy to develop more mobile methods

3026
01:50:49,679 --> 01:50:52,000
of delivering nuclear payloads.

3027
01:50:52,000 --> 01:50:54,159
Previously, ICBMs had to be launched

3028
01:50:54,159 --> 01:50:56,400
from stationary underground silos or

3029
01:50:56,400 --> 01:50:59,040
from nuclear submarines. The test did

3030
01:50:59,040 --> 01:51:02,000
not help escalating cold war tensions. 5

3031
01:51:02,000 --> 01:51:04,400
days later, Muhammad Ali defeated George

3032
01:51:04,400 --> 01:51:06,400
Foreman during the legendary Rumble in

3033
01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:08,880
the Jungle bout in Kenshasa Zire to

3034
01:51:08,880 --> 01:51:10,400
become the world heavyweight champion

3035
01:51:10,400 --> 01:51:13,280
for a second time. Ali let Foreman wear

3036
01:51:13,280 --> 01:51:15,440
himself out using his famous rope

3037
01:51:15,440 --> 01:51:17,280
technique for the first seven rounds

3038
01:51:17,280 --> 01:51:19,119
before striking with a flurry of his own

3039
01:51:19,119 --> 01:51:21,040
to KO the reigning champ in the final

3040
01:51:21,040 --> 01:51:23,440
seconds of round eight. The rumble in

3041
01:51:23,440 --> 01:51:25,199
the jungle remains one of the most

3042
01:51:25,199 --> 01:51:28,080
celebrated fights in boxing history. We

3043
01:51:28,080 --> 01:51:30,639
next go to space where the first message

3044
01:51:30,639 --> 01:51:32,400
from Earth was transmitted into the

3045
01:51:32,400 --> 01:51:34,719
stars on November 16th. Known as the

3046
01:51:34,719 --> 01:51:36,880
Arosibo message because it was sent from

3047
01:51:36,880 --> 01:51:39,040
the Araibo radio telescope in Puerto

3048
01:51:39,040 --> 01:51:40,800
Rico. The transmission contained

3049
01:51:40,800 --> 01:51:43,520
formulas and equations describing DNA as

3050
01:51:43,520 --> 01:51:45,199
well as some figures about the planet's

3051
01:51:45,199 --> 01:51:47,440
population and a return address should

3052
01:51:47,440 --> 01:51:49,679
any aliens ever want to come visit. The

3053
01:51:49,679 --> 01:51:51,040
message was meant more as a

3054
01:51:51,040 --> 01:51:52,880
demonstration of human ingenuity and

3055
01:51:52,880 --> 01:51:54,400
technology rather than an earnest

3056
01:51:54,400 --> 01:51:56,320
attempt to contact aliens. even though

3057
01:51:56,320 --> 01:51:59,520
Carl Sean did help create it. 5 days

3058
01:51:59,520 --> 01:52:02,560
later, Congress overrode Gerald Ford's

3059
01:52:02,560 --> 01:52:04,639
presidential veto to expand the Freedom

3060
01:52:04,639 --> 01:52:06,560
of Information Act and strengthen the

3061
01:52:06,560 --> 01:52:09,520
Privacy Act of 1974. Both measures were

3062
01:52:09,520 --> 01:52:11,360
a direct response to the Watergate

3063
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:13,119
scandal, designed to make the government

3064
01:52:13,119 --> 01:52:15,280
more transparent and accountable and to

3065
01:52:15,280 --> 01:52:16,639
limit the government's ability to

3066
01:52:16,639 --> 01:52:18,639
surveil its own people. According to

3067
01:52:18,639 --> 01:52:21,520
documents declassified in 2004, Ford was

3068
01:52:21,520 --> 01:52:23,599
encouraged to try to slap the bill down

3069
01:52:23,599 --> 01:52:26,480
by Donald Rumsfield and Dick Cheney.

3070
01:52:26,480 --> 01:52:28,239
Speaking of old people, the most

3071
01:52:28,239 --> 01:52:30,080
complete skeleton of an early human

3072
01:52:30,080 --> 01:52:31,920
ancestor yet discovered was found in

3073
01:52:31,920 --> 01:52:34,800
Ethiopia 3 days later. The fossilized

3074
01:52:34,800 --> 01:52:37,760
skeleton of Australopythecus apherences

3075
01:52:37,760 --> 01:52:39,520
was uncovered by a team of scientists

3076
01:52:39,520 --> 01:52:41,760
led by American paleoanthropologist

3077
01:52:41,760 --> 01:52:44,239
Donald Johansson and French geologist

3078
01:52:44,239 --> 01:52:46,400
Maurice Taib and was nicknamed Lucy

3079
01:52:46,400 --> 01:52:48,480
after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky

3080
01:52:48,480 --> 01:52:51,040
with Diamonds. December saw the end of

3081
01:52:51,040 --> 01:52:53,280
one beloved TV show and the continuation

3082
01:52:53,280 --> 01:52:55,119
of two major franchises.

3083
01:52:55,119 --> 01:52:56,880
>> I don't know. Mr. Worth just told me to

3084
01:52:56,880 --> 01:52:58,080
come in here and say that there was

3085
01:52:58,080 --> 01:52:59,520
trouble at the mill. That's all. I

3086
01:52:59,520 --> 01:53:00,719
didn't expect a kind of Spanish

3087
01:53:00,719 --> 01:53:03,719
Inquisition.

3088
01:53:05,520 --> 01:53:08,560
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

3089
01:53:08,560 --> 01:53:10,639
>> What's going on? What the hell you doing

3090
01:53:10,639 --> 01:53:14,800
now, boy? You're not thinking. I sure

3091
01:53:14,800 --> 01:53:17,440
am, boy.

3092
01:53:17,440 --> 01:53:21,000
Out of Evil Conval.

3093
01:53:21,670 --> 01:53:26,719
[Music]

3094
01:53:26,719 --> 01:53:28,639
>> There's a plane waiting for us to take

3095
01:53:28,639 --> 01:53:30,800
us to Miami in an hour. We'll make a big

3096
01:53:30,800 --> 01:53:33,679
thing about it.

3097
01:53:36,320 --> 01:53:39,440
I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my

3098
01:53:39,440 --> 01:53:41,760
heart.

3099
01:53:41,760 --> 01:53:43,440
>> You broke my heart.

3100
01:53:43,440 --> 01:53:45,119
>> Little known guitarist Lindseay

3101
01:53:45,119 --> 01:53:47,280
Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks

3102
01:53:47,280 --> 01:53:49,119
closed out the year by joining the rock

3103
01:53:49,119 --> 01:53:51,920
group Fleetwood Mack on December 31st.

3104
01:53:51,920 --> 01:53:54,000
The duo had recorded an album the

3105
01:53:54,000 --> 01:53:56,320
previous year under the name Buckingham

3106
01:53:56,320 --> 01:53:58,159
Nicks. Although Fleetwood Mack had

3107
01:53:58,159 --> 01:54:00,000
previously enjoyed some success, the

3108
01:54:00,000 --> 01:54:01,760
addition of Buckingham and Knicks would

3109
01:54:01,760 --> 01:54:04,480
jettison them to global superstardom.

3110
01:54:04,480 --> 01:54:06,080
But we'll hear more about that in a

3111
01:54:06,080 --> 01:54:10,880
future episode. And so 1974 came to a

3112
01:54:10,880 --> 01:54:12,960
close with the future looking bright for

3113
01:54:12,960 --> 01:54:14,960
America, a rock group, and an

3114
01:54:14,960 --> 01:54:18,159
Oscar-winning film series. 1975 was

3115
01:54:18,159 --> 01:54:20,159
stretching its bell-bottomed legs just

3116
01:54:20,159 --> 01:54:22,320
over the horizon, ready to boogie into

3117
01:54:22,320 --> 01:54:24,480
view with a really big fish, the fall of

3118
01:54:24,480 --> 01:54:26,639
Saigon, and the founding of a small

3119
01:54:26,639 --> 01:54:29,360
computer company called Microsoft. But

3120
01:54:29,360 --> 01:54:32,639
that is all for next year. Coming soon,

3121
01:54:32,639 --> 01:54:34,719
1975,

3122
01:54:34,719 --> 01:54:36,719
1975.

3123
01:54:36,719 --> 01:54:39,119
This is where the plot thickens. While

3124
01:54:39,119 --> 01:54:40,880
the previous two years had seen the end

3125
01:54:40,880 --> 01:54:42,639
of a war and given a crooked commander

3126
01:54:42,639 --> 01:54:44,719
and chief of the boot, the midpoint of

3127
01:54:44,719 --> 01:54:48,159
the 1970s presented an uncertain future.

3128
01:54:48,159 --> 01:54:50,639
A few governments changed hands. The US

3129
01:54:50,639 --> 01:54:52,480
and the UK experienced historic

3130
01:54:52,480 --> 01:54:54,800
tragedies, and some people really had it

3131
01:54:54,800 --> 01:54:58,000
in for Gerald Ford. But 1975 had some

3132
01:54:58,000 --> 01:55:00,480
pretty thrilling high points. Two iconic

3133
01:55:00,480 --> 01:55:02,960
gladiators faced off for the final time.

3134
01:55:02,960 --> 01:55:04,960
America's favorite stunt man bounced

3135
01:55:04,960 --> 01:55:06,560
back from a brush with death to

3136
01:55:06,560 --> 01:55:08,400
accomplish the impossible. And the

3137
01:55:08,400 --> 01:55:10,080
summer blockbuster was created by a

3138
01:55:10,080 --> 01:55:12,639
rubber shark and two notes on a piano.

3139
01:55:12,639 --> 01:55:14,239
We're going to talk about the news,

3140
01:55:14,239 --> 01:55:16,239
culture, sports, and entertainment, and

3141
01:55:16,239 --> 01:55:19,840
all that was weird in the 70s. This is

3142
01:55:19,840 --> 01:55:22,840
Timeline.

3143
01:55:24,290 --> 01:55:28,159
[Music]

3144
01:55:28,159 --> 01:55:30,080
Get ready to take the Pepsi challenge

3145
01:55:30,080 --> 01:55:34,000
because this episode is all about 1975.

3146
01:55:34,000 --> 01:55:36,080
Now, you're going to need a bigger boat

3147
01:55:36,080 --> 01:55:39,840
for this one. This is 1975.

3148
01:55:39,840 --> 01:55:41,760
The year kicked off with a crowd of over

3149
01:55:41,760 --> 01:55:44,000
2,000 Led Zeppelin fans getting the let

3150
01:55:44,000 --> 01:55:46,639
out at Boston Gardens where a riot broke

3151
01:55:46,639 --> 01:55:48,159
out in the early morning hours of

3152
01:55:48,159 --> 01:55:50,800
January 6th. The throng of lead heads

3153
01:55:50,800 --> 01:55:52,639
had gathered the night before to try to

3154
01:55:52,639 --> 01:55:54,239
score some tickets to an upcoming

3155
01:55:54,239 --> 01:55:56,320
Zeppelin concert the moment they went on

3156
01:55:56,320 --> 01:55:58,800
sale. But the crowd became agitated and

3157
01:55:58,800 --> 01:56:00,800
broke into the arena around midnight and

3158
01:56:00,800 --> 01:56:03,040
trashed the place. The mob was calmed

3159
01:56:03,040 --> 01:56:04,719
when the decision was made to open the

3160
01:56:04,719 --> 01:56:06,880
box office and begin slinging Zeppelin

3161
01:56:06,880 --> 01:56:08,880
tickets. But by then, the damage had

3162
01:56:08,880 --> 01:56:11,440
been done. $50,000 worth to be exact.

3163
01:56:11,440 --> 01:56:13,040
That's enough to buy several stairways

3164
01:56:13,040 --> 01:56:14,000
to heaven.

3165
01:56:14,000 --> 01:56:15,119
>> Let's take a look at our wheel of

3166
01:56:15,119 --> 01:56:16,800
fortune. Top dollar value on the wheel.

3167
01:56:16,800 --> 01:56:18,639
The first round's $500. Look out for

3168
01:56:18,639 --> 01:56:20,159
this black space bankrupt cuz if you hit

3169
01:56:20,159 --> 01:56:22,159
it, you lose all your cash. But not your

3170
01:56:22,159 --> 01:56:23,520
merchandise. Because once you buy a

3171
01:56:23,520 --> 01:56:25,360
prize, it's yours to keep forever.

3172
01:56:25,360 --> 01:56:27,760
>> Yeah, they must be real rich.

3173
01:56:27,760 --> 01:56:32,920
>> Hold it, Diane. We are the Jeffersons.

3174
01:56:34,480 --> 01:56:37,280
Hey, you're right, Louise. He's a great

3175
01:56:37,280 --> 01:56:39,440
joker.

3176
01:56:39,440 --> 01:56:43,040
>> Hey, Barn. I think he's stoned.

3177
01:56:43,040 --> 01:56:45,280
>> Stone? What are you talking about?

3178
01:56:45,280 --> 01:56:47,520
>> Hey, what do you say we guys go down to

3179
01:56:47,520 --> 01:56:51,840
the beach and shoot some clams?

3180
01:56:51,840 --> 01:56:54,000
>> Comedy legend Larry Fine, better known

3181
01:56:54,000 --> 01:56:56,159
as Larry of the Three Stooges, departed

3182
01:56:56,159 --> 01:56:58,560
for the slapstick stage in the sky on

3183
01:56:58,560 --> 01:57:01,040
the 24th. Fine wouldn't be the only

3184
01:57:01,040 --> 01:57:03,760
stoogge we'd lose in 75. More on that

3185
01:57:03,760 --> 01:57:06,159
later in the year. A Hungarian-born

3186
01:57:06,159 --> 01:57:08,400
college professor named Erno Rubik

3187
01:57:08,400 --> 01:57:10,960
applied for a patent for his magic cube

3188
01:57:10,960 --> 01:57:13,599
on January 30th. Originally designed as

3189
01:57:13,599 --> 01:57:15,520
an exercise for his interior design

3190
01:57:15,520 --> 01:57:17,280
students, Rubik's three-dimensional

3191
01:57:17,280 --> 01:57:18,560
puzzle would become one of the most

3192
01:57:18,560 --> 01:57:20,560
popular brain teasers in pop culture

3193
01:57:20,560 --> 01:57:24,000
history, the Rubik's Cube. Hey88s.

3194
01:57:24,000 --> 01:57:26,239
March saw some major geopolitical

3195
01:57:26,239 --> 01:57:28,159
shakeups. The military government of

3196
01:57:28,159 --> 01:57:30,400
Ethiopia abolished its monarchy on the

3197
01:57:30,400 --> 01:57:32,960
21st, beginning a 17-year period of

3198
01:57:32,960 --> 01:57:35,679
Marxist rule. The Durg, the Huta that

3199
01:57:35,679 --> 01:57:37,920
had seized control of Ethiopia in a coup

3200
01:57:37,920 --> 01:57:40,159
the previous September, was an ally of

3201
01:57:40,159 --> 01:57:42,159
the Soviet Union and would lead the East

3202
01:57:42,159 --> 01:57:44,159
African country into an extreme famine

3203
01:57:44,159 --> 01:57:46,480
in the 1980s, brought on by historic

3204
01:57:46,480 --> 01:57:49,199
droughts in war with Somalia. 4 days

3205
01:57:49,199 --> 01:57:51,679
later, King Fisel of Saudi Arabia was

3206
01:57:51,679 --> 01:57:54,159
abolished from the planet by his nephew,

3207
01:57:54,159 --> 01:57:56,560
Prince Fisel bin Mused, whose motives

3208
01:57:56,560 --> 01:57:59,119
remain unknown to this day. The king was

3209
01:57:59,119 --> 01:58:01,040
fatally shot during a royal audience

3210
01:58:01,040 --> 01:58:02,960
with the prince, who had just returned

3211
01:58:02,960 --> 01:58:05,040
from a visit to the United States. And

3212
01:58:05,040 --> 01:58:06,480
although he was initially declared

3213
01:58:06,480 --> 01:58:08,560
insane, the prince was convicted of

3214
01:58:08,560 --> 01:58:11,199
reicide and publicly executed 3 months

3215
01:58:11,199 --> 01:58:12,159
later.

3216
01:58:12,159 --> 01:58:15,040
>> He's a pinball wizard that has to be

3217
01:58:15,040 --> 01:58:20,599
addressed. A pen with a gangster.

3218
01:58:21,920 --> 01:58:24,400
>> Once in a lifetime, there comes a motion

3219
01:58:24,400 --> 01:58:26,639
picture which changes the whole history

3220
01:58:26,639 --> 01:58:29,440
of motion pictures. Amusement park

3221
01:58:29,440 --> 01:58:31,920
caricature sprung to life. Bill Gates

3222
01:58:31,920 --> 01:58:33,840
made the first steps toward becoming a

3223
01:58:33,840 --> 01:58:35,840
gazillionaire when he founded Microsoft

3224
01:58:35,840 --> 01:58:37,679
with Paul Allen on April 4th in

3225
01:58:37,679 --> 01:58:39,920
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Oddly,

3226
01:58:39,920 --> 01:58:41,840
Albuquerque might have ceased to exist

3227
01:58:41,840 --> 01:58:43,199
were it not for the spellch check

3228
01:58:43,199 --> 01:58:45,280
feature in Microsoft Office. At the

3229
01:58:45,280 --> 01:58:47,199
time, Gates, a student at Harvard

3230
01:58:47,199 --> 01:58:49,040
University, and Allen, a computer

3231
01:58:49,040 --> 01:58:51,040
programmer from Boston, intended to

3232
01:58:51,040 --> 01:58:53,440
produce software for the Altar 8800

3233
01:58:53,440 --> 01:58:55,599
personal computer. But the company grew

3234
01:58:55,599 --> 01:58:58,239
way beyond those modest goals. Flash

3235
01:58:58,239 --> 01:59:02,320
forward 12 years later to 1987, when the

3236
01:59:02,320 --> 01:59:04,320
31-year-old Gates became the world's

3237
01:59:04,320 --> 01:59:06,080
youngest billionaire after Microsoft

3238
01:59:06,080 --> 01:59:08,800
went public in 1985. Uh, if they could

3239
01:59:08,800 --> 01:59:10,239
only make an internet browser that

3240
01:59:10,239 --> 01:59:13,520
works. Back to 75, where on April 8th,

3241
01:59:13,520 --> 01:59:15,599
Frank Robinson took the field as Major

3242
01:59:15,599 --> 01:59:17,520
League Baseball's first black manager

3243
01:59:17,520 --> 01:59:19,040
during a game against the New York

3244
01:59:19,040 --> 01:59:21,360
Yankees. Robinson also played in that

3245
01:59:21,360 --> 01:59:23,199
game, hitting a home run on his first

3246
01:59:23,199 --> 01:59:25,440
atbat in Cleveland's 5 to3 victory.

3247
01:59:25,440 --> 01:59:28,080
Pretty groovy day for Robinson.

3248
01:59:28,080 --> 01:59:30,150
>> We'll be right back.

3249
01:59:30,150 --> 01:59:32,480
[Music]

3250
01:59:32,480 --> 01:59:34,480
>> Now you can play the evil conval stunt

3251
01:59:34,480 --> 01:59:36,080
game right at home. There are six

3252
01:59:36,080 --> 01:59:38,400
exciting evil conval stunts like stop

3253
01:59:38,400 --> 01:59:40,480
evil cycle before it hits the barrels.

3254
01:59:40,480 --> 01:59:42,800
Make evil stop on the ramp. Not that

3255
01:59:42,800 --> 01:59:43,679
time.

3256
01:59:43,679 --> 01:59:45,679
>> Sticking with baseball, the San Diego

3257
01:59:45,679 --> 01:59:47,360
chicken made his first appearance at a

3258
01:59:47,360 --> 01:59:50,000
Padres's game the next day. The chicken

3259
01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:52,560
portrayed by Ted Yanolas was initially

3260
01:59:52,560 --> 01:59:54,159
conceived as a mascot for the local

3261
01:59:54,159 --> 01:59:56,239
radio station. But Yanolas began

3262
01:59:56,239 --> 01:59:58,400
attending Padres's games in the costume

3263
01:59:58,400 --> 02:00:00,560
and turned the character into a sports

3264
02:00:00,560 --> 02:00:02,719
icon. Although he slowed down some in

3265
02:00:02,719 --> 02:00:04,400
recent years, the San Diego Chicken

3266
02:00:04,400 --> 02:00:06,159
still makes public appearances to this

3267
02:00:06,159 --> 02:00:08,239
day. Ironically, the chicken made his

3268
02:00:08,239 --> 02:00:10,719
debut the same day former McDonald's CEO

3269
02:00:10,719 --> 02:00:12,800
and then Padres's owner Ray Croc

3270
02:00:12,800 --> 02:00:14,480
infamously took control of the

3271
02:00:14,480 --> 02:00:15,920
broadcasting booth in the middle of the

3272
02:00:15,920 --> 02:00:18,000
game and began ranting to fans about his

3273
02:00:18,000 --> 02:00:20,560
team's poor performance. Just over a

3274
02:00:20,560 --> 02:00:22,560
week later, the illiterative dictator

3275
02:00:22,560 --> 02:00:25,119
Paul Pot took control of Cambodia when

3276
02:00:25,119 --> 02:00:26,960
his Chimera Rouge guerrilla army seized

3277
02:00:26,960 --> 02:00:29,040
the capital city of Pinam Pen, bringing

3278
02:00:29,040 --> 02:00:31,119
an end to the Cambodian civil war. On

3279
02:00:31,119 --> 02:00:33,520
April 17th, Paul Pod instituted one of

3280
02:00:33,520 --> 02:00:35,599
the most notoriously cruel regimes in

3281
02:00:35,599 --> 02:00:38,000
modern history, outlawing virtually all

3282
02:00:38,000 --> 02:00:40,000
forms of expression, taking children

3283
02:00:40,000 --> 02:00:41,520
from their families and conscripting

3284
02:00:41,520 --> 02:00:43,360
them into military service and

3285
02:00:43,360 --> 02:00:45,280
sentencing any citizens he deemed

3286
02:00:45,280 --> 02:00:47,760
undesirable to work camps and prisons

3287
02:00:47,760 --> 02:00:49,520
where they were fatally starved and

3288
02:00:49,520 --> 02:00:51,599
tortured. Paul Pot would remain in power

3289
02:00:51,599 --> 02:00:53,920
until he was deposed and imprisoned by

3290
02:00:53,920 --> 02:00:56,960
his own followers on June 12th, 1997.

3291
02:00:56,960 --> 02:00:58,480
Paul Pot spent the rest of his life

3292
02:00:58,480 --> 02:01:00,159
under house arrest and succumbed to

3293
02:01:00,159 --> 02:01:02,639
heart failure a year later. The West

3294
02:01:02,639 --> 02:01:04,719
German embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, was

3295
02:01:04,719 --> 02:01:07,119
bombed by the left-wing Red Army faction

3296
02:01:07,119 --> 02:01:09,360
on the 25th of April. The guerillas

3297
02:01:09,360 --> 02:01:10,960
seized control of the embassy to demand

3298
02:01:10,960 --> 02:01:13,040
the release of some two dozen anarchist

3299
02:01:13,040 --> 02:01:15,199
prisoners. But the situation quickly

3300
02:01:15,199 --> 02:01:17,119
escalated, resulting in the demise of

3301
02:01:17,119 --> 02:01:19,360
two hostages and one of the captives.

3302
02:01:19,360 --> 02:01:21,199
One of the more unforgettable images of

3303
02:01:21,199 --> 02:01:23,199
the 20th century was captured 4 days

3304
02:01:23,199 --> 02:01:25,440
later during the fall of Saigon. The

3305
02:01:25,440 --> 02:01:28,639
city of Saigon was renamed today. The

3306
02:01:28,639 --> 02:01:30,480
victorious communists who forced the

3307
02:01:30,480 --> 02:01:32,480
city surrender said the capital of South

3308
02:01:32,480 --> 02:01:35,119
Vietnam henceforth will be known as Ho

3309
02:01:35,119 --> 02:01:36,080
Chi Min City.

3310
02:01:36,080 --> 02:01:38,000
>> The United States officially ended its

3311
02:01:38,000 --> 02:01:40,080
occupation of South Vietnam on April

3312
02:01:40,080 --> 02:01:42,400
29th, closing the US embassy for the

3313
02:01:42,400 --> 02:01:44,480
final time and evacuating all remaining

3314
02:01:44,480 --> 02:01:47,040
American personnel via helicopter. But

3315
02:01:47,040 --> 02:01:49,119
South Vietnamese citizens, desperate to

3316
02:01:49,119 --> 02:01:50,960
escape before the North Vietnamese army

3317
02:01:50,960 --> 02:01:52,639
took control, began flooding the

3318
02:01:52,639 --> 02:01:54,000
compound to try and board the

3319
02:01:54,000 --> 02:01:56,960
helicopters. Ultimately, a total of 81

3320
02:01:56,960 --> 02:01:59,920
helicopters evacuated 1,373

3321
02:01:59,920 --> 02:02:03,040
Americans and 5,595

3322
02:02:03,040 --> 02:02:06,000
Vietnamese over the course of 19 hours.

3323
02:02:06,000 --> 02:02:08,960
An additional 65,000 South Vietnamese

3324
02:02:08,960 --> 02:02:11,760
citizens fled the city in boats, barges,

3325
02:02:11,760 --> 02:02:13,920
rafts, and sand pans to reach the US

3326
02:02:13,920 --> 02:02:16,080
warships floating just off the coast.

3327
02:02:16,080 --> 02:02:18,960
Moving into the summer, Mo Howard, the

3328
02:02:18,960 --> 02:02:20,800
last living member of the Three Stooges

3329
02:02:20,800 --> 02:02:22,960
and the comedy trio's de facto leader,

3330
02:02:22,960 --> 02:02:26,159
yucked his last yuck on May the 4th. Oh,

3331
02:02:26,159 --> 02:02:29,040
and on Star Wars day, too. Bummer. At

3332
02:02:29,040 --> 02:02:30,719
least it wasn't a thing at that point.

3333
02:02:30,719 --> 02:02:32,960
Or now, really, it's not an actual

3334
02:02:32,960 --> 02:02:35,119
event, you guys. It's a self-generated

3335
02:02:35,119 --> 02:02:37,840
marketing event. 6 days later, Sony

3336
02:02:37,840 --> 02:02:40,239
unveiled its new Betamax recorder in

3337
02:02:40,239 --> 02:02:42,719
Japan. Beta was the first home video

3338
02:02:42,719 --> 02:02:44,800
format, allowing consumers to record

3339
02:02:44,800 --> 02:02:47,040
broadcast or watch prepackaged movies in

3340
02:02:47,040 --> 02:02:48,800
their own living rooms. It hit the

3341
02:02:48,800 --> 02:02:50,239
stores in the United States that

3342
02:02:50,239 --> 02:02:51,920
November, but the excitement of her

3343
02:02:51,920 --> 02:02:54,080
Betamax would be short-lived as it was

3344
02:02:54,080 --> 02:02:56,000
quickly overshadowed by the debut of the

3345
02:02:56,000 --> 02:02:58,480
VHS format the following year. The next

3346
02:02:58,480 --> 02:03:00,960
day, RandB singer Natalie Cole released

3347
02:03:00,960 --> 02:03:03,440
her debut album, Inseparable. Cole

3348
02:03:03,440 --> 02:03:05,360
already had bonafides as a kuner. She

3349
02:03:05,360 --> 02:03:07,119
was the daughter of legendary vocalist

3350
02:03:07,119 --> 02:03:08,960
Nat King Cole, but the release of

3351
02:03:08,960 --> 02:03:10,880
Inseparable made her a star in her own

3352
02:03:10,880 --> 02:03:13,119
right, selling over 1 million copies and

3353
02:03:13,119 --> 02:03:15,360
earning her two Grammy awards. Speaking

3354
02:03:15,360 --> 02:03:17,679
of hits, Glenn Campbell released his hit

3355
02:03:17,679 --> 02:03:20,159
single Rhinestone Cowboy two weeks later

3356
02:03:20,159 --> 02:03:22,960
on May 26th. Rhinestone hit the top spot

3357
02:03:22,960 --> 02:03:25,280
on both the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot

3358
02:03:25,280 --> 02:03:27,199
Country Songs chart, the first country

3359
02:03:27,199 --> 02:03:29,760
song to do so since Jimmy Dean's 1961

3360
02:03:29,760 --> 02:03:33,199
hit Big Bad John. I'm a rhinestone

3361
02:03:33,199 --> 02:03:36,239
cowboy. M

3362
02:03:36,239 --> 02:03:38,080
and now it's stuck in your head. You're

3363
02:03:38,080 --> 02:03:41,040
welcome. That same day, Evil Conval, the

3364
02:03:41,040 --> 02:03:42,880
most famous daredevil to have ever

3365
02:03:42,880 --> 02:03:45,199
lived, had a brush with death when he

3366
02:03:45,199 --> 02:03:46,719
got into a frightening crash while

3367
02:03:46,719 --> 02:03:48,800
performing a stunt in London's Wembley

3368
02:03:48,800 --> 02:03:50,880
Stadium. Conneval was attempting to jump

3369
02:03:50,880 --> 02:03:53,280
13 buses on his motorcycle when he wiped

3370
02:03:53,280 --> 02:03:55,360
out, breaking his hand and fracturing

3371
02:03:55,360 --> 02:03:58,239
two vertebrae and his pelvis. Pelvis?

3372
02:03:58,239 --> 02:04:00,480
Yeah, you can break that. The crash left

3373
02:04:00,480 --> 02:04:02,400
him so shaken that he told the audience

3374
02:04:02,400 --> 02:04:04,639
he would never attempt another jump.

3375
02:04:04,639 --> 02:04:06,800
>> That you

3376
02:04:06,800 --> 02:04:11,199
are the last people in the world who

3377
02:04:11,199 --> 02:04:13,040
will ever see me jump because I will

3378
02:04:13,040 --> 02:04:16,320
never ever ever jump again. I'm through.

3379
02:04:16,320 --> 02:04:18,560
>> But he changed his mind pretty quickly.

3380
02:04:18,560 --> 02:04:20,960
More on that later in the year. One day

3381
02:04:20,960 --> 02:04:23,440
later, the UK suffered its worst motor

3382
02:04:23,440 --> 02:04:25,520
vehicle disaster in history when a bus

3383
02:04:25,520 --> 02:04:27,280
loaded with passengers fell off the

3384
02:04:27,280 --> 02:04:29,520
Dibbles Bridge. The bus landed upside

3385
02:04:29,520 --> 02:04:31,040
down and was nearly flattened by the

3386
02:04:31,040 --> 02:04:33,440
plunge, which fatally injured 33 people

3387
02:04:33,440 --> 02:04:36,080
on board. Another motor vehicle tragedy

3388
02:04:36,080 --> 02:04:38,080
struck 3 days later when American

3389
02:04:38,080 --> 02:04:39,760
Olympic long-distance runner Steve

3390
02:04:39,760 --> 02:04:41,760
Prefontaine drove his car off the road

3391
02:04:41,760 --> 02:04:44,000
near his house in Eugene, Oregon in the

3392
02:04:44,000 --> 02:04:45,920
early morning hours of May 30th.

3393
02:04:45,920 --> 02:04:48,239
Prefontaine was just 24 years old at the

3394
02:04:48,239 --> 02:04:50,159
time of his fatal accident and had been

3395
02:04:50,159 --> 02:04:52,000
training to compete in the 1976

3396
02:04:52,000 --> 02:04:53,920
Olympics.

3397
02:04:53,920 --> 02:04:55,980
>> We'll be right back.

3398
02:04:55,980 --> 02:04:58,000
[Music]

3399
02:04:58,000 --> 02:05:02,480
mermaid you see. What's the best tuna

3400
02:05:02,480 --> 02:05:05,599
chicken of the sea?

3401
02:05:05,599 --> 02:05:07,360
>> June kicked off with a more peaceful

3402
02:05:07,360 --> 02:05:08,880
development when Egyptian President

3403
02:05:08,880 --> 02:05:11,280
Anoir Sadat reopened the Suez Canal on

3404
02:05:11,280 --> 02:05:13,440
the 5th of the month. The canal, an

3405
02:05:13,440 --> 02:05:14,800
important shipping lane between the

3406
02:05:14,800 --> 02:05:16,880
Persian Gulf and Europe, had been closed

3407
02:05:16,880 --> 02:05:19,840
8 years earlier in 1967 during the 6-day

3408
02:05:19,840 --> 02:05:21,760
war in response to Israel's occupation

3409
02:05:21,760 --> 02:05:24,480
of the Sinai Peninsula. Today, roughly

3410
02:05:24,480 --> 02:05:26,880
300 million tons of goods travel through

3411
02:05:26,880 --> 02:05:29,520
the Suez Canal each year. That is a lot

3412
02:05:29,520 --> 02:05:31,040
of eight tracks.

3413
02:05:31,040 --> 02:05:33,360
>> Anyway,

3414
02:05:33,360 --> 02:05:35,280
>> I'm going to get you some lemonade. Oh,

3415
02:05:35,280 --> 02:05:36,719
you're fine, darling. Fine. It's the

3416
02:05:36,719 --> 02:05:37,520
microphone. Give me

3417
02:05:37,520 --> 02:05:38,159
>> I ain't done.

3418
02:05:38,159 --> 02:05:39,040
>> I know. I know.

3419
02:05:39,040 --> 02:05:39,679
>> I ain't done.

3420
02:05:39,679 --> 02:05:41,360
>> Go get some glass of water. Come on,

3421
02:05:41,360 --> 02:05:43,199
boys. Help her off. All right. You'll

3422
02:05:43,199 --> 02:05:44,480
come back. Okay, darling.

3423
02:05:44,480 --> 02:05:45,360
>> Thank you.

3424
02:05:45,360 --> 02:05:48,080
>> Notorious mob boss Sam Gianana was

3425
02:05:48,080 --> 02:05:50,560
whacked in his home on June 19th. The

3426
02:05:50,560 --> 02:05:52,320
hit took place the night before Gian

3427
02:05:52,320 --> 02:05:54,320
Kana was set to testify before Congress

3428
02:05:54,320 --> 02:05:56,159
about the mafia's involvement with the

3429
02:05:56,159 --> 02:05:58,960
CIA in plans to assassinate Fidel

3430
02:05:58,960 --> 02:06:01,920
Castro. To this day, Gian Kana's murder

3431
02:06:01,920 --> 02:06:03,840
remains unsolved.

3432
02:06:03,840 --> 02:06:05,520
>> I don't want no volunteers. I don't want

3433
02:06:05,520 --> 02:06:07,280
no mates. There's too many captains on

3434
02:06:07,280 --> 02:06:09,840
this island.

3435
02:06:09,840 --> 02:06:13,280
$10,000 for me by myself. For that, you

3436
02:06:13,280 --> 02:06:17,040
get the head, the tail, the whole damn

3437
02:06:17,040 --> 02:06:20,000
thing. Theatrical shock rock singer

3438
02:06:20,000 --> 02:06:22,320
Alice Cooper took a tumble off the stage

3439
02:06:22,320 --> 02:06:24,400
during a concert in Vancouver on the

3440
02:06:24,400 --> 02:06:27,040
23rd of June. Cooper, known for his

3441
02:06:27,040 --> 02:06:29,360
elaborate performances, tripped over a

3442
02:06:29,360 --> 02:06:31,199
prop during the first song of the night

3443
02:06:31,199 --> 02:06:32,960
and crashed head first through the

3444
02:06:32,960 --> 02:06:35,119
security barriers on the floor below,

3445
02:06:35,119 --> 02:06:37,599
breaking six of his ribs and nabbing a

3446
02:06:37,599 --> 02:06:39,440
pretty gnarly concussion. After being

3447
02:06:39,440 --> 02:06:41,119
told the extent of his injuries, the

3448
02:06:41,119 --> 02:06:42,960
singer went back out and performed a few

3449
02:06:42,960 --> 02:06:45,760
more songs, presumably far, far away

3450
02:06:45,760 --> 02:06:47,920
from the edge of the stage. A much more

3451
02:06:47,920 --> 02:06:50,400
tragic crash occurred a day later when

3452
02:06:50,400 --> 02:06:53,040
Eastern Airlines Flight 66 crashed on

3453
02:06:53,040 --> 02:06:55,280
approach to New York's JFK airport on

3454
02:06:55,280 --> 02:06:57,679
June 24th. The aircraft was thrown off

3455
02:06:57,679 --> 02:06:59,360
course by strong winds and struck

3456
02:06:59,360 --> 02:07:01,280
several light towers before impacting on

3457
02:07:01,280 --> 02:07:04,800
Rockaway Boulevard. 113 of the 124

3458
02:07:04,800 --> 02:07:06,960
people on board perished, making it the

3459
02:07:06,960 --> 02:07:08,719
worst accident in American aviation

3460
02:07:08,719 --> 02:07:10,960
history at the time. Twilight Zone

3461
02:07:10,960 --> 02:07:13,599
creator Rod Serling departed for a

3462
02:07:13,599 --> 02:07:15,360
dimension not only of sight and sound,

3463
02:07:15,360 --> 02:07:17,920
but of mind on the 28th of June.

3464
02:07:17,920 --> 02:07:20,400
Serling's endlessly imitable persona and

3465
02:07:20,400 --> 02:07:22,320
incisive social commentary made the

3466
02:07:22,320 --> 02:07:24,639
Twilight Zone a hit, and it remains the

3467
02:07:24,639 --> 02:07:26,639
benchmark for popular science fiction to

3468
02:07:26,639 --> 02:07:28,960
this day. That unforgettably trippy

3469
02:07:28,960 --> 02:07:31,679
theme song doesn't hurt either. Moving

3470
02:07:31,679 --> 02:07:34,800
into July, tennis icon Arthur Ash became

3471
02:07:34,800 --> 02:07:37,040
the first black player to win Wimbledon

3472
02:07:37,040 --> 02:07:39,040
the day after Independence Day. The

3473
02:07:39,040 --> 02:07:40,880
31-year-old Ash triumped over the

3474
02:07:40,880 --> 02:07:42,639
heavily favored Jimmy Connors, who is

3475
02:07:42,639 --> 02:07:44,480
both the defending champion and nine

3476
02:07:44,480 --> 02:07:47,040
years Ash's junior. Ash would retire

3477
02:07:47,040 --> 02:07:49,119
from competition 5 years later after

3478
02:07:49,119 --> 02:07:51,119
suffering a heart attack and became an

3479
02:07:51,119 --> 02:07:53,440
HIV and AIDS activist after contracting

3480
02:07:53,440 --> 02:07:55,280
the virus from a blood transfusion

3481
02:07:55,280 --> 02:07:57,679
following bypass surgery. Ash passed

3482
02:07:57,679 --> 02:08:01,360
away in 1993. Famed labor leader Jimmy

3483
02:08:01,360 --> 02:08:03,440
Hawa disappeared off the face of the

3484
02:08:03,440 --> 02:08:05,760
earth on July 20th from the parking lot

3485
02:08:05,760 --> 02:08:07,920
of a diner in Detroit, Michigan. Bafa

3486
02:08:07,920 --> 02:08:09,520
had been the president of the Teamsters

3487
02:08:09,520 --> 02:08:12,639
Union since 1957 and had become a hugely

3488
02:08:12,639 --> 02:08:14,320
influential figure in the American labor

3489
02:08:14,320 --> 02:08:16,320
movement, advocating for workers rights

3490
02:08:16,320 --> 02:08:17,599
right up until the day of his

3491
02:08:17,599 --> 02:08:19,760
disappearance. He also had well-known

3492
02:08:19,760 --> 02:08:21,760
ties with organized crime, which

3493
02:08:21,760 --> 02:08:23,440
resulted in him spending several years

3494
02:08:23,440 --> 02:08:25,440
in prison for bribery. Although Hafa's

3495
02:08:25,440 --> 02:08:27,520
fate remains officially unsolved, it

3496
02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:28,880
hasn't stopped Hollywood from making a

3497
02:08:28,880 --> 02:08:30,880
bunch of movies about his demise.

3498
02:08:30,880 --> 02:08:33,760
Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani

3499
02:08:33,760 --> 02:08:35,679
founded his aonomous company in Milan,

3500
02:08:35,679 --> 02:08:37,920
Italy 4 days later with his partner

3501
02:08:37,920 --> 02:08:40,480
Sergio Galotei. Fashion House has since

3502
02:08:40,480 --> 02:08:42,079
become synonymous with trends setting

3503
02:08:42,079 --> 02:08:44,079
red carpet fashion and is still

3504
02:08:44,079 --> 02:08:46,000
generating billions of dollars of annual

3505
02:08:46,000 --> 02:08:48,800
revenue almost 50 years later. Near the

3506
02:08:48,800 --> 02:08:51,119
end of July, Gerald Ford became the

3507
02:08:51,119 --> 02:08:54,079
first US president to visit Avitz. Ford

3508
02:08:54,079 --> 02:08:55,679
solemnly paid his respects at the

3509
02:08:55,679 --> 02:08:57,760
memorial to the 4 million victims of the

3510
02:08:57,760 --> 02:09:00,079
notorious concentration camp in Poland.

3511
02:09:00,079 --> 02:09:02,079
While on his way to a multi-nation peace

3512
02:09:02,079 --> 02:09:04,239
conference in Helsinki, Finland, Led

3513
02:09:04,239 --> 02:09:06,239
Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant was

3514
02:09:06,239 --> 02:09:08,159
seriously injured in a car crash in

3515
02:09:08,159 --> 02:09:10,400
Roads, Greece on the 4th of August. The

3516
02:09:10,400 --> 02:09:11,920
singer had been vacationing with his

3517
02:09:11,920 --> 02:09:13,360
family while on a short break from

3518
02:09:13,360 --> 02:09:14,960
touring when he lost control of their

3519
02:09:14,960 --> 02:09:16,880
rental car and drove off the road.

3520
02:09:16,880 --> 02:09:18,480
Although his family wasn't seriously

3521
02:09:18,480 --> 02:09:20,320
injured, Plant suffered a broken elbow

3522
02:09:20,320 --> 02:09:22,079
and ankle, forcing Led Zeppelin to

3523
02:09:22,079 --> 02:09:23,360
cancel the rest of their tour and

3524
02:09:23,360 --> 02:09:24,800
pushing back the release date of their

3525
02:09:24,800 --> 02:09:27,840
next album by a full year. Zeppelin,

3526
02:09:27,840 --> 02:09:30,239
good times, bad times. You know they've

3527
02:09:30,239 --> 02:09:31,199
had their share.

3528
02:09:31,199 --> 02:09:35,280
>> For tonight is the night that my

3529
02:09:35,280 --> 02:09:38,960
beautiful creature is destined to be

3530
02:09:38,960 --> 02:09:41,960
born.

3531
02:09:43,280 --> 02:09:45,520
Gerald Ford endured the first of two

3532
02:09:45,520 --> 02:09:47,440
attempts on his life when former Charles

3533
02:09:47,440 --> 02:09:50,079
Manson follower Lynette Squeaky from

3534
02:09:50,079 --> 02:09:51,840
tried to gun the president down on

3535
02:09:51,840 --> 02:09:54,079
September 5th. Ford was walking into the

3536
02:09:54,079 --> 02:09:55,840
state capital building in Sacramento,

3537
02:09:55,840 --> 02:09:57,920
California, when From emerged from the

3538
02:09:57,920 --> 02:10:00,320
crowd, brandishing a pistol, but she had

3539
02:10:00,320 --> 02:10:02,480
neglected to chamber around, so

3540
02:10:02,480 --> 02:10:04,880
whoopsies. Squeaky was squashed to the

3541
02:10:04,880 --> 02:10:06,880
ground by Secret Service agents as Ford

3542
02:10:06,880 --> 02:10:08,560
continued inside the building and met

3543
02:10:08,560 --> 02:10:10,560
with California Governor Jerry Brown as

3544
02:10:10,560 --> 02:10:12,239
if nothing had happened. Maybe you

3545
02:10:12,239 --> 02:10:14,480
didn't notice. Nah, you definitely

3546
02:10:14,480 --> 02:10:17,360
noticed that. The next day, 18-year-old

3547
02:10:17,360 --> 02:10:20,560
tennis star Martina Navertolova asked

3548
02:10:20,560 --> 02:10:22,400
for political asylum from communist

3549
02:10:22,400 --> 02:10:24,000
controlled Czechoslovakia while

3550
02:10:24,000 --> 02:10:26,079
competing in the US Open on September

3551
02:10:26,079 --> 02:10:28,079
6th. Naturalva had been granted

3552
02:10:28,079 --> 02:10:29,520
permission to stay in America for the

3553
02:10:29,520 --> 02:10:30,880
duration of the tournament, but

3554
02:10:30,880 --> 02:10:32,320
officially defected from her home

3555
02:10:32,320 --> 02:10:33,520
country the night after she was

3556
02:10:33,520 --> 02:10:35,520
eliminated from the semi-finals. The

3557
02:10:35,520 --> 02:10:37,280
hot-tempered tennis pro was one of

3558
02:10:37,280 --> 02:10:39,360
several prominent athletes, artists,

3559
02:10:39,360 --> 02:10:41,280
entertainers, and others to publicly

3560
02:10:41,280 --> 02:10:42,719
defect from communist controlled

3561
02:10:42,719 --> 02:10:44,639
countries during the Cold War, including

3562
02:10:44,639 --> 02:10:46,719
gymnast Nadia Kumanichi and Detroit

3563
02:10:46,719 --> 02:10:49,920
Redwing legend Sergey Federov. Now,

3564
02:10:49,920 --> 02:10:52,400
first thing you got to do is Vinnie

3565
02:10:52,400 --> 02:10:55,440
Barbarino look. Okay, your hair, for

3566
02:10:55,440 --> 02:10:57,599
instance, very casual. It should look

3567
02:10:57,599 --> 02:11:02,280
like it's being blown by unseen winds.

3568
02:11:03,840 --> 02:11:06,000
Just over a week later, Rembrandt's

3569
02:11:06,000 --> 02:11:08,320
priceless painting, The Night Watch, was

3570
02:11:08,320 --> 02:11:10,320
badly damaged by a knife wielding

3571
02:11:10,320 --> 02:11:12,079
vandal, as it hung in the Reichkes

3572
02:11:12,079 --> 02:11:14,719
Museum in Amsterdam. Oh, and we mean

3573
02:11:14,719 --> 02:11:17,520
priceless. Literally. The massive 12x4

3574
02:11:17,520 --> 02:11:19,280
ft painting has never been assigned a

3575
02:11:19,280 --> 02:11:21,599
monetary value. The attacker was a

3576
02:11:21,599 --> 02:11:24,560
former teacher named Vermes, who slashed

3577
02:11:24,560 --> 02:11:26,079
the paintings to ribbons with a bread

3578
02:11:26,079 --> 02:11:28,239
knife, claiming the Lord had told him to

3579
02:11:28,239 --> 02:11:30,320
do it. Interestingly, this wasn't the

3580
02:11:30,320 --> 02:11:31,840
first time that the Night Watch would be

3581
02:11:31,840 --> 02:11:33,920
randomly attacked by vandals in the 20th

3582
02:11:33,920 --> 02:11:36,159
century, nor would it be the last. An

3583
02:11:36,159 --> 02:11:38,159
unemployed shoemaker attempted to deface

3584
02:11:38,159 --> 02:11:39,920
the painting with a shoemaker's knife in

3585
02:11:39,920 --> 02:11:43,679
1911. And we flash forward to April 6th,

3586
02:11:43,679 --> 02:11:46,480
1990. A man sprayed acid onto the canvas

3587
02:11:46,480 --> 02:11:48,320
from a pump concealed in his jacket.

3588
02:11:48,320 --> 02:11:50,480
Luckily, the damage was minimal. Some

3589
02:11:50,480 --> 02:11:52,960
people really do not like that painting.

3590
02:11:52,960 --> 02:11:56,000
Coming back to 1975, kidnapping victim

3591
02:11:56,000 --> 02:11:58,560
turned wanted fugitive Patty Hurst was

3592
02:11:58,560 --> 02:12:00,880
captured by the FBI in San Francisco on

3593
02:12:00,880 --> 02:12:03,199
September 18th. Hurst, the granddaughter

3594
02:12:03,199 --> 02:12:05,199
of publishing magnate William Randph

3595
02:12:05,199 --> 02:12:07,679
Hurst, had been abducted by the Symbian

3596
02:12:07,679 --> 02:12:09,679
Liberation Army the previous year, who

3597
02:12:09,679 --> 02:12:11,599
demanded an elaborate ransom for her

3598
02:12:11,599 --> 02:12:13,520
return. But Hurst appeared to have

3599
02:12:13,520 --> 02:12:15,840
joined the SLA, releasing a videotaped

3600
02:12:15,840 --> 02:12:17,360
statement of allegiance and assisting

3601
02:12:17,360 --> 02:12:19,199
the group in at least two armed

3602
02:12:19,199 --> 02:12:21,199
robberies. Although she later claimed

3603
02:12:21,199 --> 02:12:22,639
that she had been brainwashed and

3604
02:12:22,639 --> 02:12:24,719
tormented by her capttors, Hurst was

3605
02:12:24,719 --> 02:12:26,320
convicted for her involvement in the

3606
02:12:26,320 --> 02:12:27,920
robberies and spent three years in

3607
02:12:27,920 --> 02:12:29,679
prison before her sentence was commuted

3608
02:12:29,679 --> 02:12:33,900
by President Jimmy Carter in 1979.

3609
02:12:33,900 --> 02:12:37,970
[Laughter]

3610
02:12:40,000 --> 02:12:43,719
>> Can we help you?

3611
02:12:44,159 --> 02:12:45,360
>> Oh, you speak English?

3612
02:12:45,360 --> 02:12:46,320
>> Of course.

3613
02:12:46,320 --> 02:12:49,280
>> Oh, wonderful. Wonderful. 17 days after

3614
02:12:49,280 --> 02:12:51,520
Squeaky from botched attack, President

3615
02:12:51,520 --> 02:12:53,679
Ford survived a second attempt on his

3616
02:12:53,679 --> 02:12:55,760
life when a woman opened fire on him

3617
02:12:55,760 --> 02:12:57,760
from a crowd gathered outside his hotel

3618
02:12:57,760 --> 02:13:00,079
in San Francisco. The asalent was a

3619
02:13:00,079 --> 02:13:02,639
former FBI informant named Sarah Jane

3620
02:13:02,639 --> 02:13:04,560
Moore, who squeezed off two rounds

3621
02:13:04,560 --> 02:13:07,119
before being subdued by Oliver Sipple, a

3622
02:13:07,119 --> 02:13:09,040
retired US Marine who happened to be

3623
02:13:09,040 --> 02:13:10,719
standing near her in the crowd.

3624
02:13:10,719 --> 02:13:13,040
President Ford escaped unharmed until

3625
02:13:13,040 --> 02:13:15,040
his scathing depiction on the Simpsons

3626
02:13:15,040 --> 02:13:17,679
two decades later. Electrifying soul

3627
02:13:17,679 --> 02:13:19,760
singer Jackie Wilson suffered a massive

3628
02:13:19,760 --> 02:13:21,040
heart attack in the middle of a

3629
02:13:21,040 --> 02:13:23,360
performance the following week. Wilson

3630
02:13:23,360 --> 02:13:24,880
was in the middle of a rendition of his

3631
02:13:24,880 --> 02:13:27,280
hit song Lonely Teardrops at a New

3632
02:13:27,280 --> 02:13:29,360
Jersey nightclub on September 29th when

3633
02:13:29,360 --> 02:13:31,840
he suddenly collapsed. The singer lapsed

3634
02:13:31,840 --> 02:13:34,480
into a 9-year coma from which he never

3635
02:13:34,480 --> 02:13:37,040
awakened. Wilson passed away on January

3636
02:13:37,040 --> 02:13:41,119
21st, 1984 at the age of 49. Moving into

3637
02:13:41,119 --> 02:13:43,280
October and the checking in on sports,

3638
02:13:43,280 --> 02:13:46,079
Muhammad Ali narrowly defeated rival Joe

3639
02:13:46,079 --> 02:13:48,639
Frasier in a legendary boxing match.

3640
02:13:48,639 --> 02:13:50,960
Dubbed the thriller in Manila by Ali

3641
02:13:50,960 --> 02:13:53,119
himself, the champ traded blows with

3642
02:13:53,119 --> 02:13:55,360
Frraasier for a brutal 14 rounds in

3643
02:13:55,360 --> 02:13:57,440
Quesan City in the Philippines.

3644
02:13:57,440 --> 02:13:59,599
Frraasier's face was so swollen he could

3645
02:13:59,599 --> 02:14:01,520
barely see and his corner threw in the

3646
02:14:01,520 --> 02:14:03,760
towel. It was the third and last time

3647
02:14:03,760 --> 02:14:05,520
these two greats would face each other

3648
02:14:05,520 --> 02:14:07,679
in the rain. Ali taking two of those

3649
02:14:07,679 --> 02:14:10,239
bouts.

3650
02:14:10,239 --> 02:14:12,960
We'll be right back.

3651
02:14:12,960 --> 02:14:15,199
>> No pizza lover is going to buy frozen

3652
02:14:15,199 --> 02:14:16,800
pizza just because it's convenient.

3653
02:14:16,800 --> 02:14:18,880
That's why Kellogg made their frozen

3654
02:14:18,880 --> 02:14:22,159
pizza with thick, rich tomato sauce,

3655
02:14:22,159 --> 02:14:24,560
fresh peppers and mushrooms, spicy

3656
02:14:24,560 --> 02:14:27,760
pepperoni, and lots of mozzarella

3657
02:14:27,760 --> 02:14:28,639
cheese.

3658
02:14:28,639 --> 02:14:30,719
>> A week later, President Ford signed a

3659
02:14:30,719 --> 02:14:32,400
bill authorizing the admission of women

3660
02:14:32,400 --> 02:14:35,040
to America's militarymies. Previously,

3661
02:14:35,040 --> 02:14:37,199
the nation's servicemies had been male

3662
02:14:37,199 --> 02:14:39,040
only. The bill generated some

3663
02:14:39,040 --> 02:14:40,960
controversy though as women were barred

3664
02:14:40,960 --> 02:14:43,280
from combat at the time. In fact, women

3665
02:14:43,280 --> 02:14:44,960
were still prohibited from most combat

3666
02:14:44,960 --> 02:14:47,679
roles until January of 2013 when

3667
02:14:47,679 --> 02:14:49,920
Pentagon Defense Secretary Leon Petta

3668
02:14:49,920 --> 02:14:52,079
officially lifted the ban. Women would

3669
02:14:52,079 --> 02:14:53,599
still be restricted from joining special

3670
02:14:53,599 --> 02:14:55,760
operations units such as Navy Seals and

3671
02:14:55,760 --> 02:14:58,880
the Army Special Forces until 2015.

3672
02:14:58,880 --> 02:15:00,800
>> From Saturday Night News headquarters,

3673
02:15:00,800 --> 02:15:04,400
this is Weekend Update with Chvy Chase.

3674
02:15:04,400 --> 02:15:08,079
>> You under the covers right now?

3675
02:15:08,079 --> 02:15:11,480
Did you shower?

3676
02:15:13,199 --> 02:15:16,639
>> Good. Good evening. I'm Chvby Chase.

3677
02:15:16,639 --> 02:15:18,800
>> Stunt man Evil Conval did not stay

3678
02:15:18,800 --> 02:15:21,440
retired for long. Just 5 months after

3679
02:15:21,440 --> 02:15:23,440
his crash at Wembley Stadium, the

3680
02:15:23,440 --> 02:15:26,239
legendary daredevil jumped 14 Greyhound

3681
02:15:26,239 --> 02:15:28,480
buses at Ohio's King Island Amusement

3682
02:15:28,480 --> 02:15:31,920
Park, a distance of over 130 ft. And

3683
02:15:31,920 --> 02:15:34,560
this time, he stuck the landing. It's

3684
02:15:34,560 --> 02:15:36,000
just too bad he couldn't ride the beast

3685
02:15:36,000 --> 02:15:37,840
after his jump. The greatest wooden

3686
02:15:37,840 --> 02:15:39,920
coaster wouldn't debut for another four

3687
02:15:39,920 --> 02:15:40,960
years.

3688
02:15:40,960 --> 02:15:44,320
>> From New York,

3689
02:15:44,320 --> 02:15:47,280
Hollywood,

3690
02:15:47,280 --> 02:15:50,480
the nation,

3691
02:15:50,480 --> 02:15:53,360
Washington, and the world.

3692
02:15:53,360 --> 02:15:56,079
Good morning, America.

3693
02:15:56,079 --> 02:15:58,480
>> Punk band, The Sex Pistols played their

3694
02:15:58,480 --> 02:16:00,719
first show on the 6th at the Common Room

3695
02:16:00,719 --> 02:16:02,960
of London's St. Martin School of Art.

3696
02:16:02,960 --> 02:16:04,800
True to their street punk image, the

3697
02:16:04,800 --> 02:16:06,880
band neglected to bring any equipment

3698
02:16:06,880 --> 02:16:08,560
and had to borrow amplifiers from the

3699
02:16:08,560 --> 02:16:11,040
headlining band Bazooka Joe. The show

3700
02:16:11,040 --> 02:16:12,639
nearly ended in a fist fight when

3701
02:16:12,639 --> 02:16:14,639
Pistol's lead singer Johnny Rotten

3702
02:16:14,639 --> 02:16:17,119
started smashing the lone gear, which to

3703
02:16:17,119 --> 02:16:18,719
be honest is exactly what you'd expect

3704
02:16:18,719 --> 02:16:20,800
from a guy named Johnny Rotten. There's

3705
02:16:20,800 --> 02:16:22,560
a reason he was on Judge Judy in the

3706
02:16:22,560 --> 02:16:23,360
'90s.

3707
02:16:23,360 --> 02:16:25,679
>> Dr. Blinker, I always wondered when I'd

3708
02:16:25,679 --> 02:16:28,320
have the displeasure of meeting you.

3709
02:16:28,320 --> 02:16:31,280
>> She knows who we are. Oh, I've heard of

3710
02:16:31,280 --> 02:16:33,840
you, but you should have stuck to

3711
02:16:33,840 --> 02:16:35,840
sabotaging oil tankers.

3712
02:16:35,840 --> 02:16:37,920
>> Jesus. I mean, you guys do nothing but

3713
02:16:37,920 --> 02:16:39,679
complain about how you can't stand it in

3714
02:16:39,679 --> 02:16:40,880
this place here, and then you haven't

3715
02:16:40,880 --> 02:16:42,960
got the guts just to walk out. I mean,

3716
02:16:42,960 --> 02:16:44,399
what do you think you are, for Christ's

3717
02:16:44,399 --> 02:16:46,479
sake? Crazy or something? Well, you're

3718
02:16:46,479 --> 02:16:49,920
not. Hawaii's Kilawea volcano erupted on

3719
02:16:49,920 --> 02:16:52,319
November 29th, triggering a massive

3720
02:16:52,319 --> 02:16:54,960
earthquake that measured a whopping 7.4

3721
02:16:54,960 --> 02:16:57,200
on the Richter scale. In addition to the

3722
02:16:57,200 --> 02:16:59,599
eruption, the earthquake conjured a 47

3723
02:16:59,599 --> 02:17:01,679
foot high tsunami that was felt as far

3724
02:17:01,679 --> 02:17:04,000
away as Alaska and Japan. The surf was

3725
02:17:04,000 --> 02:17:06,559
up indeed. Speaking of bombs, an

3726
02:17:06,559 --> 02:17:08,880
explosive device detonated in a baggage

3727
02:17:08,880 --> 02:17:11,519
area of LaGuardia Airport one day later.

3728
02:17:11,519 --> 02:17:13,120
The blast tore through the crowded

3729
02:17:13,120 --> 02:17:15,599
terminal, fatally wounding 11 people and

3730
02:17:15,599 --> 02:17:18,240
injuring 75 others. Despite being one of

3731
02:17:18,240 --> 02:17:20,080
the worst terrorist attacks in American

3732
02:17:20,080 --> 02:17:22,000
history at the time, no group took

3733
02:17:22,000 --> 02:17:23,840
credit for the bombing, and the incident

3734
02:17:23,840 --> 02:17:27,120
remains unsolved to this day. And so

3735
02:17:27,120 --> 02:17:30,399
1975 ended on a bittersweet note with an

3736
02:17:30,399 --> 02:17:32,399
unforgettable moment of triumph and a

3737
02:17:32,399 --> 02:17:35,760
shocking and mysterious tragedy. 1976

3738
02:17:35,760 --> 02:17:37,760
was just about to roll up to the party,

3739
02:17:37,760 --> 02:17:39,840
bringing with it a new president, a new

3740
02:17:39,840 --> 02:17:43,120
gadget, and hey, the Muppets. But that

3741
02:17:43,120 --> 02:17:48,080
is next year, coming soon. 1976

3742
02:17:48,080 --> 02:17:51,120
1976 began to lay the groundwork for its

3743
02:17:51,120 --> 02:17:54,399
upcoming sequel, the 1980s.

3744
02:17:54,399 --> 02:17:57,280
America celebrated its 200th year as

3745
02:17:57,280 --> 02:17:58,960
several prominent figures from the first

3746
02:17:58,960 --> 02:18:01,280
half of the 20th century faded into the

3747
02:18:01,280 --> 02:18:03,200
sunset to make room for the next

3748
02:18:03,200 --> 02:18:05,519
generation of trend setting icons and

3749
02:18:05,519 --> 02:18:07,760
world leaders. After the uncertainty of

3750
02:18:07,760 --> 02:18:10,240
the previous year, 1976 brought with it

3751
02:18:10,240 --> 02:18:12,160
some welcome promises of hope for the

3752
02:18:12,160 --> 02:18:14,559
future, including an exciting new space

3753
02:18:14,559 --> 02:18:16,960
program and the election of a folksy new

3754
02:18:16,960 --> 02:18:19,280
president, untouched by the stain of

3755
02:18:19,280 --> 02:18:21,599
Watergate. But it wasn't all floral

3756
02:18:21,599 --> 02:18:24,319
prints and disco. Unrest and injustice

3757
02:18:24,319 --> 02:18:26,240
were still rampant around the globe, and

3758
02:18:26,240 --> 02:18:27,760
the streets of New York City would be

3759
02:18:27,760 --> 02:18:29,200
darkened by the arrival of one of

3760
02:18:29,200 --> 02:18:31,599
history's most notorious criminals.

3761
02:18:31,599 --> 02:18:32,960
We're going to talk about the news,

3762
02:18:32,960 --> 02:18:34,800
culture, sports, and entertainment, and

3763
02:18:34,800 --> 02:18:38,639
all that was weird in the 70s. This is

3764
02:18:38,639 --> 02:18:41,639
Timeline.

3765
02:18:44,639 --> 02:18:46,960
You talking to me? You must be talking

3766
02:18:46,960 --> 02:18:50,000
to me because this episode is all about

3767
02:18:50,000 --> 02:18:51,760
1976.

3768
02:18:51,760 --> 02:18:53,760
Now, don't get too close to that Pinto

3769
02:18:53,760 --> 02:18:58,040
because this is 1976.

3770
02:18:59,359 --> 02:19:01,200
The year kicked off with the moving of a

3771
02:19:01,200 --> 02:19:03,760
national monument. The Liberty Bell was

3772
02:19:03,760 --> 02:19:05,280
relocated from Philadelphia's

3773
02:19:05,280 --> 02:19:07,519
Independence Hall to a newly constructed

3774
02:19:07,519 --> 02:19:09,439
pavilion a short distance away in

3775
02:19:09,439 --> 02:19:11,519
Independence National Historic Park on

3776
02:19:11,519 --> 02:19:13,920
January 1st in celebration of America's

3777
02:19:13,920 --> 02:19:16,800
bsentennial. Bit of a sad gift. Nobody

3778
02:19:16,800 --> 02:19:18,639
wants to reorganize their antiques on

3779
02:19:18,639 --> 02:19:21,200
their 200th birthday. The Liberty Bell

3780
02:19:21,200 --> 02:19:25,960
has remained in its new home ever since.

3781
02:19:26,240 --> 02:19:28,479
Famed mystery writer Agatha Christie

3782
02:19:28,479 --> 02:19:30,960
passed away on the 12th of January. And

3783
02:19:30,960 --> 02:19:34,319
the murderer is someone in this room.

3784
02:19:34,319 --> 02:19:36,319
Just kidding. Christy passed away of

3785
02:19:36,319 --> 02:19:38,399
natural causes at her home, Winterbrook

3786
02:19:38,399 --> 02:19:41,200
House at the age of 85. She is often

3787
02:19:41,200 --> 02:19:43,120
referred to as the most influential

3788
02:19:43,120 --> 02:19:45,760
mystery writer to ever put pen to paper

3789
02:19:45,760 --> 02:19:47,120
and remains one of the bestselling

3790
02:19:47,120 --> 02:19:50,240
authors of all time.

3791
02:19:50,240 --> 02:19:52,160
>> Hi, I'm Darling. And I'm Marie.

3792
02:19:52,160 --> 02:19:53,439
>> I understand.

3793
02:19:53,439 --> 02:19:54,880
>> Even the way I did it was difficult.

3794
02:19:54,880 --> 02:19:56,560
Sure.

3795
02:19:56,560 --> 02:19:58,080
>> Well, look, man. It's not easy working

3796
02:19:58,080 --> 02:20:01,479
with a dummy.

3797
02:20:01,600 --> 02:20:04,160
>> The doomed supersonic airliner Concord

3798
02:20:04,160 --> 02:20:05,920
took its first commercial flight on

3799
02:20:05,920 --> 02:20:08,720
January the 21st. Two flights departed

3800
02:20:08,720 --> 02:20:10,800
simultaneously from London's Heathro

3801
02:20:10,800 --> 02:20:12,880
airport and France's Orley airport,

3802
02:20:12,880 --> 02:20:15,040
bound for Bahrain and Rio de Janeiro,

3803
02:20:15,040 --> 02:20:16,880
respectively. Although the high-speed

3804
02:20:16,880 --> 02:20:18,640
plane could carry passengers across the

3805
02:20:18,640 --> 02:20:20,720
Atlantic in less than half the time, the

3806
02:20:20,720 --> 02:20:23,760
Concord never managed to catch on. Only

3807
02:20:23,760 --> 02:20:26,240
16 of the planes were sold and were used

3808
02:20:26,240 --> 02:20:28,399
exclusively to fly from London and Paris

3809
02:20:28,399 --> 02:20:32,240
to New York until July 20th, 2000 when

3810
02:20:32,240 --> 02:20:34,399
an Air France Concord crashed shortly

3811
02:20:34,399 --> 02:20:36,240
after takeoff, claiming the lives of

3812
02:20:36,240 --> 02:20:38,160
over 100 passengers and crew.

3813
02:20:38,160 --> 02:20:39,920
>> You could hear the aircraft, you could

3814
02:20:39,920 --> 02:20:41,760
see the black smoke, and you could see

3815
02:20:41,760 --> 02:20:43,920
tremendous flames coming out the back.

3816
02:20:43,920 --> 02:20:46,240
>> The Concord never recovered and took its

3817
02:20:46,240 --> 02:20:48,319
final commercial flight just over 3

3818
02:20:48,319 --> 02:20:53,479
years later on October 24th, 2003.

3819
02:20:54,560 --> 02:20:56,880
Well, we got to get out of here.

3820
02:20:56,880 --> 02:20:59,520
>> Well, what do you suggest I do? Flap my

3821
02:20:59,520 --> 02:21:01,280
arms real hard and head toward the

3822
02:21:01,280 --> 02:21:03,120
window?

3823
02:21:03,120 --> 02:21:05,120
>> Finishing out the month, future Dana

3824
02:21:05,120 --> 02:21:07,760
Carvey impersonation, George HW Bush

3825
02:21:07,760 --> 02:21:10,080
became the director of the CIA on the

3826
02:21:10,080 --> 02:21:11,280
30th.

3827
02:21:11,280 --> 02:21:14,000
>> Anybody dumb enough to accept the job is

3828
02:21:14,000 --> 02:21:16,399
too dumb to do it. Bush had previously

3829
02:21:16,399 --> 02:21:18,160
served two terms in the House of

3830
02:21:18,160 --> 02:21:20,560
Representatives and was a UN ambassador

3831
02:21:20,560 --> 02:21:22,880
under Richard Nixon, but he wouldn't

3832
02:21:22,880 --> 02:21:25,600
hang on to the CIA gig for long. Bush

3833
02:21:25,600 --> 02:21:27,600
resigned from the position exactly one

3834
02:21:27,600 --> 02:21:29,359
year later following the election of

3835
02:21:29,359 --> 02:21:31,680
President Jimmy Carter. Gez, George, let

3836
02:21:31,680 --> 02:21:34,720
us know how you really feel.

3837
02:21:34,720 --> 02:21:37,439
Moving into February, Nobel Prizewinning

3838
02:21:37,439 --> 02:21:40,000
physicist Verer Heisenberg passed into

3839
02:21:40,000 --> 02:21:42,399
the theoretical plane on the first.

3840
02:21:42,399 --> 02:21:44,399
Heisenberg is credited as the father of

3841
02:21:44,399 --> 02:21:46,960
quantum mechanics, including the famous

3842
02:21:46,960 --> 02:21:48,960
uncertainty principle, which bears his

3843
02:21:48,960 --> 02:21:51,280
name. But he was also a man of some

3844
02:21:51,280 --> 02:21:53,600
dubious distinction. He was instrumental

3845
02:21:53,600 --> 02:21:55,600
in developing Germany's nuclear program

3846
02:21:55,600 --> 02:21:57,840
during World War II, as well as

3847
02:21:57,840 --> 02:22:00,160
inspiring a certain New Mexico chemistry

3848
02:22:00,160 --> 02:22:02,560
teacher three decades later.

3849
02:22:02,560 --> 02:22:06,359
>> Say my name.

3850
02:22:09,439 --> 02:22:13,040
>> You talking to me?

3851
02:22:13,280 --> 02:22:17,000
You talking to me?

3852
02:22:17,280 --> 02:22:20,000
You talking to me?

3853
02:22:20,000 --> 02:22:22,560
>> Rebel Without a Cause actor Salmano was

3854
02:22:22,560 --> 02:22:24,319
fatally wounded by a knife wielding

3855
02:22:24,319 --> 02:22:26,720
mugger on February 12th. He had been

3856
02:22:26,720 --> 02:22:28,479
returning home from rehearsals for an

3857
02:22:28,479 --> 02:22:30,240
upcoming play when he was attacked while

3858
02:22:30,240 --> 02:22:32,800
parking his car behind his apartment. Mo

3859
02:22:32,800 --> 02:22:34,960
succumbed to his wounds, passing away at

3860
02:22:34,960 --> 02:22:38,000
the age of 37. A pizza delivery driver

3861
02:22:38,000 --> 02:22:40,080
named Lionel Ray Williams was convicted

3862
02:22:40,080 --> 02:22:41,760
of the crime and sentenced to life in

3863
02:22:41,760 --> 02:22:44,080
prison, but was parrolled in 1990 after

3864
02:22:44,080 --> 02:22:47,120
serving just 12 years. The next day,

3865
02:22:47,120 --> 02:22:49,280
American figure skating champ Dorothy

3866
02:22:49,280 --> 02:22:51,200
Hamill took home the gold medal for

3867
02:22:51,200 --> 02:22:53,600
ladies singles at the 1976 Winter

3868
02:22:53,600 --> 02:22:56,399
Olympics in Ensrook, Austria. Hamill's

3869
02:22:56,399 --> 02:22:58,080
medalinning performance included her

3870
02:22:58,080 --> 02:23:00,800
signature move, a camel spin into a sit

3871
02:23:00,800 --> 02:23:04,000
spin dubbed the Haml camel and a final

3872
02:23:04,000 --> 02:23:06,800
scratch spin. A performance without any

3873
02:23:06,800 --> 02:23:09,439
flaws.

3874
02:23:09,439 --> 02:23:11,550
>> We'll be right back.

3875
02:23:11,550 --> 02:23:14,600
[Music]

3876
02:23:15,280 --> 02:23:17,120
>> Darthothy Hamill for Clar Short and

3877
02:23:17,120 --> 02:23:17,600
Sassy.

3878
02:23:17,600 --> 02:23:19,280
>> The longest it was about just to the top

3879
02:23:19,280 --> 02:23:21,520
of my shoulders

3880
02:23:21,520 --> 02:23:24,000
straight back and I used to pull it back

3881
02:23:24,000 --> 02:23:26,160
like this. Now, with short hair, I need

3882
02:23:26,160 --> 02:23:28,240
more body. So, I use Clear All Short and

3883
02:23:28,240 --> 02:23:30,319
Sassy, the conditioner for short hair.

3884
02:23:30,319 --> 02:23:32,240
Even after blow drying, short and sassy

3885
02:23:32,240 --> 02:23:34,319
makes it shiny and gives it body. And

3886
02:23:34,319 --> 02:23:36,640
let's face it, without body, short hair

3887
02:23:36,640 --> 02:23:38,000
is just short hair.

3888
02:23:38,000 --> 02:23:40,240
>> Clarall short and sassy with twice the

3889
02:23:40,240 --> 02:23:41,920
protein of the leading conditioner.

3890
02:23:41,920 --> 02:23:43,840
>> For the short and sassy look,

3891
02:23:43,840 --> 02:23:45,920
>> hurdling into March, the largest

3892
02:23:45,920 --> 02:23:48,319
observed meteorite in history fell to

3893
02:23:48,319 --> 02:23:50,800
Earth near Gilin City in China during a

3894
02:23:50,800 --> 02:23:53,200
massive meteor shower on the ETH. The

3895
02:23:53,200 --> 02:23:54,720
record- setting chunk of space rock

3896
02:23:54,720 --> 02:23:57,359
weighed nearly 4,000 pounds or roughly

3897
02:23:57,359 --> 02:24:00,160
the same as 1.8 million Dennis Eckersley

3898
02:24:00,160 --> 02:24:02,560
rookie cards. To date, it remains the

3899
02:24:02,560 --> 02:24:04,560
biggest observed meteor to strike the

3900
02:24:04,560 --> 02:24:07,600
planet. Heavy man.

3901
02:24:07,600 --> 02:24:10,560
The Who's hardying drummer Keith Moon

3902
02:24:10,560 --> 02:24:12,319
collapsed in the middle of a show at the

3903
02:24:12,319 --> 02:24:15,200
Boston Gardens on March 9th. The English

3904
02:24:15,200 --> 02:24:16,640
rock band had just started their set

3905
02:24:16,640 --> 02:24:18,720
when Moon simply toppled over behind his

3906
02:24:18,720 --> 02:24:21,359
drum kit. At the time, singer Roger

3907
02:24:21,359 --> 02:24:23,680
Daltry chocked the incident up to a bad

3908
02:24:23,680 --> 02:24:25,600
case of the flu, but it was later

3909
02:24:25,600 --> 02:24:27,359
revealed that Moon had suffered a near

3910
02:24:27,359 --> 02:24:29,520
fatal overdose of booze and prescription

3911
02:24:29,520 --> 02:24:32,000
pills. Moon bounced back in time to play

3912
02:24:32,000 --> 02:24:34,000
a makeup show a month later, but his

3913
02:24:34,000 --> 02:24:36,000
luck would run out before the end of the

3914
02:24:36,000 --> 02:24:39,439
decade. More on that in 2 years.

3915
02:24:39,439 --> 02:24:41,600
Two weeks later, Argentine President

3916
02:24:41,600 --> 02:24:43,840
Isabel Peron was overthrown in a

3917
02:24:43,840 --> 02:24:47,880
military coup on the 24th.

3918
02:24:50,880 --> 02:24:52,880
Peron, the third wife of former

3919
02:24:52,880 --> 02:24:55,200
President Juan Peron, took office after

3920
02:24:55,200 --> 02:24:57,920
her husband's death in 1974 during a

3921
02:24:57,920 --> 02:25:01,120
period of extreme socopolitical unrest.

3922
02:25:01,120 --> 02:25:03,840
Jorge Rafael Vidella, the general who

3923
02:25:03,840 --> 02:25:06,160
led the military huta against Peron,

3924
02:25:06,160 --> 02:25:07,760
controlled Argentina for the next

3925
02:25:07,760 --> 02:25:10,319
several years in a reign notorious for

3926
02:25:10,319 --> 02:25:12,399
human rights abuses and one of the worst

3927
02:25:12,399 --> 02:25:14,240
financial crises in the nation's

3928
02:25:14,240 --> 02:25:16,479
history.

3929
02:25:16,479 --> 02:25:18,880
Booting up April, Apple computer was

3930
02:25:18,880 --> 02:25:21,120
founded in Los Altos, California by

3931
02:25:21,120 --> 02:25:23,760
Steve Jobs, Steve Waznjak, and Ronald

3932
02:25:23,760 --> 02:25:26,240
Wayne on the 1st. Their first product,

3933
02:25:26,240 --> 02:25:28,479
the Apple 1, was designed and built by

3934
02:25:28,479 --> 02:25:31,760
Waznjak entirely by hand. Jobs, a

3935
02:25:31,760 --> 02:25:34,000
college dropout with no background in

3936
02:25:34,000 --> 02:25:35,840
computing, set up the company in his

3937
02:25:35,840 --> 02:25:38,479
parents' garage. He had an idea that the

3938
02:25:38,479 --> 02:25:40,560
personal computer, which at the time was

3939
02:25:40,560 --> 02:25:42,640
considered an extremely niche item for

3940
02:25:42,640 --> 02:25:44,479
hobbyists, could become the

3941
02:25:44,479 --> 02:25:46,800
indispensable product of the future.

3942
02:25:46,800 --> 02:25:48,720
Stay tuned to see how that works out for

3943
02:25:48,720 --> 02:25:51,120
him. Or just check out the logo on

3944
02:25:51,120 --> 02:25:52,640
whatever device you're using to watch

3945
02:25:52,640 --> 02:25:54,720
this video. Pretty good odds it might be

3946
02:25:54,720 --> 02:25:56,960
a piece of fruit.

3947
02:25:56,960 --> 02:25:59,840
The same day, experimental artist Max

3948
02:25:59,840 --> 02:26:02,640
Ernst packed away his earthly brushes at

3949
02:26:02,640 --> 02:26:05,840
age 84. A prolific Renaissance man,

3950
02:26:05,840 --> 02:26:07,920
Ernst was a poet as well as a sculptor

3951
02:26:07,920 --> 02:26:09,840
and painter and is considered one of the

3952
02:26:09,840 --> 02:26:13,920
fathers of dataism and surrealism.

3953
02:26:13,920 --> 02:26:15,840
[Music]

3954
02:26:15,840 --> 02:26:18,800
>> Charles Manson, the father, his family,

3955
02:26:18,800 --> 02:26:21,359
and their legacy of Helter Skelter. Now,

3956
02:26:21,359 --> 02:26:23,840
Lauraar Productions brings to full life

3957
02:26:23,840 --> 02:26:25,840
Helter Skelter, the number one

3958
02:26:25,840 --> 02:26:27,920
bestseller, the true story of the

3959
02:26:27,920 --> 02:26:30,720
Charles Manson murders. Renowned

3960
02:26:30,720 --> 02:26:32,800
industrialist, aviator, and film

3961
02:26:32,800 --> 02:26:35,359
producer Howard Hughes passed away on

3962
02:26:35,359 --> 02:26:38,240
April 5th at age 70. One of the most

3963
02:26:38,240 --> 02:26:40,240
powerful and influential figures of the

3964
02:26:40,240 --> 02:26:42,319
20th century, Hughes spent the final

3965
02:26:42,319 --> 02:26:44,800
decade of his life in extreme seclusion

3966
02:26:44,800 --> 02:26:46,880
as a result of his declining mental and

3967
02:26:46,880 --> 02:26:49,600
physical health. In fact, Hughes was so

3968
02:26:49,600 --> 02:26:51,439
secretive during those last years that

3969
02:26:51,439 --> 02:26:53,200
many didn't believe he had actually

3970
02:26:53,200 --> 02:26:55,120
died. And conspiracy theories about the

3971
02:26:55,120 --> 02:26:57,439
billionaire supposedly faking his death

3972
02:26:57,439 --> 02:27:00,319
circulated for years.

3973
02:27:00,319 --> 02:27:04,560
You follow the money. What do you mean?

3974
02:27:04,560 --> 02:27:07,760
>> Where? Oh, I can't tell you that.

3975
02:27:07,760 --> 02:27:10,080
>> Staying with books, literary horror

3976
02:27:10,080 --> 02:27:12,720
author Anne Rice published her debut

3977
02:27:12,720 --> 02:27:15,200
novel, Interview with a Vampire, on

3978
02:27:15,200 --> 02:27:17,439
April 12th. The book was the first

3979
02:27:17,439 --> 02:27:19,840
installment of Rice's popular Vampire

3980
02:27:19,840 --> 02:27:22,000
Chronicles series and would go on to

3981
02:27:22,000 --> 02:27:24,240
sell over 8 million copies. It was

3982
02:27:24,240 --> 02:27:26,720
eventually adapted into a 1994 film of

3983
02:27:26,720 --> 02:27:29,200
the same name, starring Tom Cruz and

3984
02:27:29,200 --> 02:27:31,439
some unknown actor named Brad Pitt.

3985
02:27:31,439 --> 02:27:34,960
>> In blood, but not human.

3986
02:27:34,960 --> 02:27:37,520
>> Barbara Walters made broadcast history

3987
02:27:37,520 --> 02:27:40,000
10 days later when she became the first

3988
02:27:40,000 --> 02:27:41,840
female anchor of a nightly network

3989
02:27:41,840 --> 02:27:44,479
newscast on the 22nd. Walter would

3990
02:27:44,479 --> 02:27:46,640
co-anchor ABC Evening News with Harry

3991
02:27:46,640 --> 02:27:48,880
Reezer for the next two years until a

3992
02:27:48,880 --> 02:27:51,120
visible onair tension between the two

3993
02:27:51,120 --> 02:27:54,399
led her to leave the show in 1978. But

3994
02:27:54,399 --> 02:27:56,720
don't worry, she landed on her feet.

3995
02:27:56,720 --> 02:27:58,560
Walters would go on to become one of the

3996
02:27:58,560 --> 02:28:00,560
most influential broadcast journalists

3997
02:28:00,560 --> 02:28:04,000
and interviewers of the 20th century.

3998
02:28:04,000 --> 02:28:06,130
>> We'll be right back.

3999
02:28:06,130 --> 02:28:09,200
[Music]

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02:28:10,640 --> 02:28:12,399
Radio Shack has the perfect gift for

4001
02:28:12,399 --> 02:28:14,880
pedal pushes. The famous Archer bicycle

4002
02:28:14,880 --> 02:28:16,960
radios that let you play Santa for as

4003
02:28:16,960 --> 02:28:19,760
little as $9.95. Or give the original

4004
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Road Patrol radio with built-in horn and

4005
02:28:21,760 --> 02:28:23,840
reflector. Or really make them happy

4006
02:28:23,840 --> 02:28:26,640
with this deluxe AMFM model. All three

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disconnect quickly for safekeeping or

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02:28:28,399 --> 02:28:32,479
off-ike use. Lowcost Archer bike radios

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02:28:32,479 --> 02:28:36,270
only at Radio Shack, the Tandy company.

4010
02:28:36,270 --> 02:28:38,160
[Music]

4011
02:28:38,160 --> 02:28:40,880
Former Yard Birds frontman Keith Ralph

4012
02:28:40,880 --> 02:28:42,880
accidentally electrocuted himself with

4013
02:28:42,880 --> 02:28:45,439
his guitar on May 14th, passing away at

4014
02:28:45,439 --> 02:28:48,240
age 33. Ralph had been noodling around

4015
02:28:48,240 --> 02:28:49,760
with his instrument in the basement when

4016
02:28:49,760 --> 02:28:51,760
he stepped on a gas pipe. Because his

4017
02:28:51,760 --> 02:28:53,920
guitar wasn't grounding, the contact

4018
02:28:53,920 --> 02:28:55,600
with the metal pipe sent a fatal

4019
02:28:55,600 --> 02:28:57,840
electric current through his body. Ralph

4020
02:28:57,840 --> 02:28:59,840
left behind an enduring music legacy

4021
02:28:59,840 --> 02:29:01,520
with the Yard Birds, where he played

4022
02:29:01,520 --> 02:29:03,920
alongside future giants Jimmy Paige,

4023
02:29:03,920 --> 02:29:07,040
Jeff Beck, and Eric Clapton.

4024
02:29:07,040 --> 02:29:09,439
Staying with the music theme, The Who

4025
02:29:09,439 --> 02:29:11,520
played the loudest concert in recorded

4026
02:29:11,520 --> 02:29:13,520
history at the time on the last day of

4027
02:29:13,520 --> 02:29:15,760
May. The show played at the Valley

4028
02:29:15,760 --> 02:29:17,840
Stadium in Charlton, London, thrashed

4029
02:29:17,840 --> 02:29:21,760
out an eard drum destroying 126 dB at a

4030
02:29:21,760 --> 02:29:24,399
distance of 100 ft from the stage. For

4031
02:29:24,399 --> 02:29:26,880
reference, the jet engine clocks in at

4032
02:29:26,880 --> 02:29:30,399
around 150 dB. Guess we know why Tommy

4033
02:29:30,399 --> 02:29:32,880
was deaf. The concert earned the Who the

4034
02:29:32,880 --> 02:29:36,399
nickname the loudest band in the world.

4035
02:29:36,399 --> 02:29:38,319
Controversial billionaire and timeline

4036
02:29:38,319 --> 02:29:40,399
recurring character J. Paul Getty kicked

4037
02:29:40,399 --> 02:29:42,560
the extremely wealthy bucket on the 6th

4038
02:29:42,560 --> 02:29:44,640
of June. The abduction of Getty's

4039
02:29:44,640 --> 02:29:47,120
grandson, J. Paul Getty III, and Getty's

4040
02:29:47,120 --> 02:29:48,960
subsequent refusal to pay his grandson's

4041
02:29:48,960 --> 02:29:51,840
ransom had dominated headlines 3 years

4042
02:29:51,840 --> 02:29:54,640
earlier. An avid art collector, Getty

4043
02:29:54,640 --> 02:29:56,479
left a sizable chunk of his massive

4044
02:29:56,479 --> 02:29:58,240
fortune, still considered to be one of

4045
02:29:58,240 --> 02:29:59,760
the largest personal fortunes in

4046
02:29:59,760 --> 02:30:01,840
history, to the J. Paul Getty Museum in

4047
02:30:01,840 --> 02:30:05,439
Los Angeles, California.

4048
02:30:05,439 --> 02:30:09,120
>> Damian, I love you.

4049
02:30:09,120 --> 02:30:11,680
>> Look at me, Damian.

4050
02:30:11,680 --> 02:30:14,560
>> It's all for you.

4051
02:30:14,560 --> 02:30:17,040
>> It's time for the family feud.

4052
02:30:17,040 --> 02:30:18,880
>> Sexy garment worn by women. Three

4053
02:30:18,880 --> 02:30:19,840
answers remain.

4054
02:30:19,840 --> 02:30:23,359
>> How about uh high boots? Uh

4055
02:30:23,359 --> 02:30:25,920
>> boots

4056
02:30:25,920 --> 02:30:28,240
>> tells me a little more about you than I

4057
02:30:28,240 --> 02:30:31,840
uh the old high boot. Char

4058
02:30:31,840 --> 02:30:34,240
>> baseball legend Hank Aaron hit the final

4059
02:30:34,240 --> 02:30:36,319
home run of his storied career on the

4060
02:30:36,319 --> 02:30:40,000
20th of July. Aaron swatted his 755th

4061
02:30:40,000 --> 02:30:41,680
dinger while playing for the Milwaukee

4062
02:30:41,680 --> 02:30:43,760
Brewers in a game against the California

4063
02:30:43,760 --> 02:30:46,000
Angels. He hung up his bat at the end of

4064
02:30:46,000 --> 02:30:48,720
the 1976 season, but would continue in

4065
02:30:48,720 --> 02:30:50,640
Major League Baseball as an executive

4066
02:30:50,640 --> 02:30:52,640
for the Atlanta Braves, where he had

4067
02:30:52,640 --> 02:30:55,200
played for most of his career.

4068
02:30:55,200 --> 02:30:57,920
Finishing out July, a notorious name

4069
02:30:57,920 --> 02:31:00,800
claimed as first victim on the 29th.

4070
02:31:00,800 --> 02:31:03,760
18-year-old Donna Lauria and 19-year-old

4071
02:31:03,760 --> 02:31:06,000
Jodie Valente were sitting in a car just

4072
02:31:06,000 --> 02:31:08,080
after 1:00 a.m. when a strange man

4073
02:31:08,080 --> 02:31:09,920
approached them and opened fire with a

4074
02:31:09,920 --> 02:31:12,640
44 caliber pistol. Lauria perished

4075
02:31:12,640 --> 02:31:15,120
instantly, but Valente survived and gave

4076
02:31:15,120 --> 02:31:17,120
a description of her attacker. The

4077
02:31:17,120 --> 02:31:18,960
murderer would come to be known as the

4078
02:31:18,960 --> 02:31:20,960
son of Sam, coined in a series of

4079
02:31:20,960 --> 02:31:22,640
letters he mailed to police and would

4080
02:31:22,640 --> 02:31:24,800
terrorize New York City for an entire

4081
02:31:24,800 --> 02:31:27,280
year. On the same day in Staying with

4082
02:31:27,280 --> 02:31:29,920
Sports, famed Formula 1 driver Nikki

4083
02:31:29,920 --> 02:31:32,319
Laua suffered a shocking crash at the

4084
02:31:32,319 --> 02:31:34,720
German Grand Prix. Laa's car went off

4085
02:31:34,720 --> 02:31:36,399
the track on a sharp curve and caught

4086
02:31:36,399 --> 02:31:39,600
fire with Laa trapped inside. Italian

4087
02:31:39,600 --> 02:31:42,960
driver Arturo Martzario managed to pull

4088
02:31:42,960 --> 02:31:44,880
him out, but not before Laosa suffered

4089
02:31:44,880 --> 02:31:46,800
severe burns that resulted in the loss

4090
02:31:46,800 --> 02:31:49,520
of one ear and both eyelids. Everyone

4091
02:31:49,520 --> 02:31:51,200
was so certain Lisa's ticket had been

4092
02:31:51,200 --> 02:31:53,120
punched that he was actually given last

4093
02:31:53,120 --> 02:31:54,960
rights at the hospital. But the driver

4094
02:31:54,960 --> 02:31:56,960
made a full recovery and returned to

4095
02:31:56,960 --> 02:32:01,479
racing just 6 weeks later.

4096
02:32:01,520 --> 02:32:05,560
>> We'll be right back.

4097
02:32:06,240 --> 02:32:08,479
What makes this television different

4098
02:32:08,479 --> 02:32:11,280
from any other in the world? This

4099
02:32:11,280 --> 02:32:13,920
button. It brings you a home video game

4100
02:32:13,920 --> 02:32:17,120
builtin. A Magnavox exclusive. One touch

4101
02:32:17,120 --> 02:32:19,520
and its Magnavox color TV with a color

4102
02:32:19,520 --> 02:32:21,600
picture of astonishing clarity. Touch

4103
02:32:21,600 --> 02:32:24,080
again. And it's Odyssey, America's

4104
02:32:24,080 --> 02:32:26,479
favorite home video game. Why settle for

4105
02:32:26,479 --> 02:32:28,640
just color TV when now you can have a

4106
02:32:28,640 --> 02:32:31,760
built-in home video game, too? Only from

4107
02:32:31,760 --> 02:32:34,319
Magnavox.

4108
02:32:34,319 --> 02:32:36,399
No way, man. Look, Millie will be here

4109
02:32:36,399 --> 02:32:38,160
in case Steve comes on back here. Now,

4110
02:32:38,160 --> 02:32:39,040
come on. Let's get going.

4111
02:32:39,040 --> 02:32:41,120
>> Uh-uh. You say what?

4112
02:32:41,120 --> 02:32:44,880
>> I'm not going out there alone at night.

4113
02:32:44,880 --> 02:32:46,160
>> Don't tell me you're afraid, little

4114
02:32:46,160 --> 02:32:46,399
brother.

4115
02:32:46,399 --> 02:32:47,600
>> All right, Raj, you tell him

4116
02:32:47,600 --> 02:32:48,319
>> he's afraid.

4117
02:32:48,319 --> 02:32:51,720
>> Thank you, Raj.

4118
02:32:53,359 --> 02:32:56,000
>> Esteemed television journalist Tom Broka

4119
02:32:56,000 --> 02:32:58,800
joined the Today Show on August 30th.

4120
02:32:58,800 --> 02:33:00,720
Broka would co-anchor the show with Jane

4121
02:33:00,720 --> 02:33:02,880
Paulie for the next 5 years. A

4122
02:33:02,880 --> 02:33:04,960
relatively new face in news media at the

4123
02:33:04,960 --> 02:33:07,200
time, Brokaw would go on to become one

4124
02:33:07,200 --> 02:33:09,120
of the most recognizable and trusted

4125
02:33:09,120 --> 02:33:12,720
media figures of the 20th century.

4126
02:33:12,720 --> 02:33:14,160
>> Hey Fzy, can you get that?

4127
02:33:14,160 --> 02:33:16,800
>> I'll get it, Kermit.

4128
02:33:16,800 --> 02:33:20,960
Hello, the Muppet Show backstage.

4129
02:33:20,960 --> 02:33:22,640
>> Who was it?

4130
02:33:22,640 --> 02:33:24,800
>> The water department.

4131
02:33:24,800 --> 02:33:27,120
Ma Zedong, the chairman of the Chinese

4132
02:33:27,120 --> 02:33:28,720
Communist Party and one of the most

4133
02:33:28,720 --> 02:33:30,560
prominent figures of the Cold War,

4134
02:33:30,560 --> 02:33:33,680
passed away at the wisened age of 82.

4135
02:33:33,680 --> 02:33:35,680
Initially a staunchy enemy of all things

4136
02:33:35,680 --> 02:33:37,920
Western, towards the end of his life,

4137
02:33:37,920 --> 02:33:40,240
Chairman Mao began to view the Soviet

4138
02:33:40,240 --> 02:33:42,560
Union as a greater threat to China than

4139
02:33:42,560 --> 02:33:45,120
the United States and had begun to try

4140
02:33:45,120 --> 02:33:47,439
and repair relations with America, which

4141
02:33:47,439 --> 02:33:49,120
had resulted in President Richard

4142
02:33:49,120 --> 02:33:51,120
Nixon's visit to the communist nation

4143
02:33:51,120 --> 02:33:53,840
four years earlier. The next day,

4144
02:33:53,840 --> 02:33:56,080
outspoken screenwriter Dalton Trumbo

4145
02:33:56,080 --> 02:33:58,800
dotted his last eye, passing away at age

4146
02:33:58,800 --> 02:34:01,359
70. Trumbo had been a major figure of

4147
02:34:01,359 --> 02:34:03,600
the Hollywood blacklist when Congress

4148
02:34:03,600 --> 02:34:05,200
appointed the House on American

4149
02:34:05,200 --> 02:34:06,960
Activities Committee to investigate the

4150
02:34:06,960 --> 02:34:09,040
threat of secret communist influence

4151
02:34:09,040 --> 02:34:10,960
that had allegedly infiltrated the

4152
02:34:10,960 --> 02:34:13,120
motion picture industry. Trumbo had

4153
02:34:13,120 --> 02:34:14,800
refused to testify before the committee

4154
02:34:14,800 --> 02:34:16,960
and was briefly imprisoned. He and

4155
02:34:16,960 --> 02:34:18,399
several others suspected of being

4156
02:34:18,399 --> 02:34:20,319
communist agents were blacklisted from

4157
02:34:20,319 --> 02:34:21,760
working in film for the next few

4158
02:34:21,760 --> 02:34:24,319
decades.

4159
02:34:24,319 --> 02:34:27,280
7 days later, NASA unveiled its first

4160
02:34:27,280 --> 02:34:29,439
space shuttle, the appropriately named

4161
02:34:29,439 --> 02:34:31,680
Enterprise. The 10 billion dollar

4162
02:34:31,680 --> 02:34:33,520
shuttle was revealed during a ceremony

4163
02:34:33,520 --> 02:34:34,880
at Rockwell International's

4164
02:34:34,880 --> 02:34:36,640
manufacturing plant in Palmdale,

4165
02:34:36,640 --> 02:34:38,399
California, which was attended by the

4166
02:34:38,399 --> 02:34:40,720
cast of Star Trek. Except for Shatner,

4167
02:34:40,720 --> 02:34:45,280
he will not be upstaged even by NASA.

4168
02:34:45,280 --> 02:34:48,620
>> How are you going to stop me?

4169
02:34:48,620 --> 02:34:56,720
[Music]

4170
02:34:56,720 --> 02:34:59,439
shorts on the mail. I ordered a

4171
02:34:59,439 --> 02:35:01,359
hamburger. What's this?

4172
02:35:01,359 --> 02:35:03,760
>> What's the difference? It's dead.

4173
02:35:03,760 --> 02:35:05,920
>> I'm not so sure.

4174
02:35:05,920 --> 02:35:08,319
>> To finish out September, musician Jerry

4175
02:35:08,319 --> 02:35:10,720
Lee Lewis shot his bass player, Butch

4176
02:35:10,720 --> 02:35:14,000
Owens, in the chest on the 29th. But not

4177
02:35:14,000 --> 02:35:16,000
to finish Owens, who survived what Lewis

4178
02:35:16,000 --> 02:35:18,479
insisted was an accidental shooting.

4179
02:35:18,479 --> 02:35:20,720
Lewis was no stranger to unfavorable

4180
02:35:20,720 --> 02:35:23,280
headlines. He previously earned stacks

4181
02:35:23,280 --> 02:35:25,040
of notoriety for marrying his

4182
02:35:25,040 --> 02:35:27,040
13-year-old cousin, Myra, and for the

4183
02:35:27,040 --> 02:35:28,800
mysterious demise of two of his other

4184
02:35:28,800 --> 02:35:30,800
wives, including many other run-ins with

4185
02:35:30,800 --> 02:35:32,640
the law. Do you think there's a reason

4186
02:35:32,640 --> 02:35:36,000
Lewis was nicknamed the killer?

4187
02:35:36,000 --> 02:35:37,840
Speaking of which, the Supreme Court

4188
02:35:37,840 --> 02:35:39,680
rescended its ban on the death penalty

4189
02:35:39,680 --> 02:35:42,080
on the 4th of October. The ban had

4190
02:35:42,080 --> 02:35:44,000
previously been set four years earlier

4191
02:35:44,000 --> 02:35:46,240
in the case of Ferman v. Georgia, in

4192
02:35:46,240 --> 02:35:47,600
which the court ruled that the death

4193
02:35:47,600 --> 02:35:50,080
penalty constituted cruel and unusual

4194
02:35:50,080 --> 02:35:52,000
punishment. However, the capital

4195
02:35:52,000 --> 02:35:53,920
sentences that had been reduced to life

4196
02:35:53,920 --> 02:35:55,680
imprisonment by the ban weren't

4197
02:35:55,680 --> 02:35:58,000
reinstated, most notably that of Charles

4198
02:35:58,000 --> 02:36:01,760
Manson. Now, there's some luck, Chuck.

4199
02:36:01,760 --> 02:36:04,560
2 days later, terrorists attacked Cubana

4200
02:36:04,560 --> 02:36:06,960
Flight 455 while the plane was in route

4201
02:36:06,960 --> 02:36:09,439
to Jamaica from Barbados. Two bombs

4202
02:36:09,439 --> 02:36:11,600
detonated mid-flight, plunging the

4203
02:36:11,600 --> 02:36:13,280
aircraft into the sea and claiming the

4204
02:36:13,280 --> 02:36:15,600
lives of all 73 people on board,

4205
02:36:15,600 --> 02:36:17,439
including all 24 members of Cuba's

4206
02:36:17,439 --> 02:36:19,280
National Fencing Team, who had just

4207
02:36:19,280 --> 02:36:21,439
swept the Central American and Caribbean

4208
02:36:21,439 --> 02:36:23,600
Championships. Officially, the attack

4209
02:36:23,600 --> 02:36:25,359
was credited to the group The

4210
02:36:25,359 --> 02:36:27,280
Coordination of United Revolutionary

4211
02:36:27,280 --> 02:36:29,520
Organizations, although rumors swirled

4212
02:36:29,520 --> 02:36:32,319
that the CIA may have been involved.

4213
02:36:32,319 --> 02:36:33,920
Speaking of frightening developments,

4214
02:36:33,920 --> 02:36:36,240
the Ebola virus was identified for the

4215
02:36:36,240 --> 02:36:38,160
first time under a microscope on the

4216
02:36:38,160 --> 02:36:40,960
unluckiest day of the spookiest month.

4217
02:36:40,960 --> 02:36:43,760
CDC veriologist Frederick A. Murphy took

4218
02:36:43,760 --> 02:36:45,280
a look at what he thought was a sample

4219
02:36:45,280 --> 02:36:48,000
of Marberg virus from Zire, now the

4220
02:36:48,000 --> 02:36:50,240
Democratic Republic of Congo, only to

4221
02:36:50,240 --> 02:36:52,399
see the now famous shepherd's crook

4222
02:36:52,399 --> 02:36:54,319
shape. According to the World Health

4223
02:36:54,319 --> 02:36:56,399
Organization, the virus has a mortality

4224
02:36:56,399 --> 02:36:59,280
rate of anywhere from 25 to 90% and

4225
02:36:59,280 --> 02:37:00,960
there have been over two dozen outbreaks

4226
02:37:00,960 --> 02:37:04,720
of Ebola since its discovery.

4227
02:37:04,720 --> 02:37:06,750
>> We'll be right back.

4228
02:37:06,750 --> 02:37:09,680
[Music]

4229
02:37:09,680 --> 02:37:12,399
>> Ford introduces the brand new Pinto Pony

4230
02:37:12,399 --> 02:37:16,080
MPG. This 2.3 L Penzo has a wider

4231
02:37:16,080 --> 02:37:18,479
stance, more road hugging weight and a

4232
02:37:18,479 --> 02:37:21,439
bigger engine than Datson B210, Toyota

4233
02:37:21,439 --> 02:37:25,200
Corolla, Honda, Opal, Fiat, VW Beetle,

4234
02:37:25,200 --> 02:37:28,000
Rabbit, Dasher, and Chevet. Yet still

4235
02:37:28,000 --> 02:37:31,680
has EPA estimates of 38 MPG highway, 25

4236
02:37:31,680 --> 02:37:34,000
city. Your actual mileage may vary. The

4237
02:37:34,000 --> 02:37:37,040
Pinto Pony MPG. The closer you look, the

4238
02:37:37,040 --> 02:37:38,960
better we look.

4239
02:37:38,960 --> 02:37:41,200
Jimmy Carter was elected the 39th

4240
02:37:41,200 --> 02:37:42,960
president of the United States on

4241
02:37:42,960 --> 02:37:45,520
November 2nd. Carter, the Democratic

4242
02:37:45,520 --> 02:37:47,840
governor of Georgia, narrowly defeated

4243
02:37:47,840 --> 02:37:50,160
incumbent Gerald Ford, who after

4244
02:37:50,160 --> 02:37:52,160
escaping two assassination attempts the

4245
02:37:52,160 --> 02:37:54,160
previous year, was probably relieved to

4246
02:37:54,160 --> 02:37:56,880
be done with the job. I don't know what

4247
02:37:56,880 --> 02:37:58,240
to do about the depression and the

4248
02:37:58,240 --> 02:38:00,000
inflation and the Russians and the crime

4249
02:38:00,000 --> 02:38:02,160
in the street. All I know is that first

4250
02:38:02,160 --> 02:38:04,720
you've got to get mad. You've got to say

4251
02:38:04,720 --> 02:38:07,040
I'm a human being.

4252
02:38:07,040 --> 02:38:09,280
In mid November, Spain's parliament

4253
02:38:09,280 --> 02:38:10,960
voted in favor of establishing a

4254
02:38:10,960 --> 02:38:13,200
democracy after nearly four decades of

4255
02:38:13,200 --> 02:38:16,080
dictatorship under Francisco Franco. The

4256
02:38:16,080 --> 02:38:19,680
vote, which passed 429 to 59, dismantled

4257
02:38:19,680 --> 02:38:21,760
Franco's fascist government almost one

4258
02:38:21,760 --> 02:38:23,600
year to the day after his death the

4259
02:38:23,600 --> 02:38:25,520
previous November. The country would

4260
02:38:25,520 --> 02:38:27,600
hold its first democratic election since

4261
02:38:27,600 --> 02:38:30,399
1936, the following June.

4262
02:38:30,399 --> 02:38:32,880
>> Okay, I'm going to tell you cuz you had

4263
02:38:32,880 --> 02:38:35,520
the talent to become a good fighter. And

4264
02:38:35,520 --> 02:38:37,600
instead of that, you became a leg

4265
02:38:37,600 --> 02:38:40,080
breaker to some cheap second rate lone

4266
02:38:40,080 --> 02:38:41,600
shark.

4267
02:38:41,600 --> 02:38:42,880
>> It's a living.

4268
02:38:42,880 --> 02:38:45,600
>> It's a waste of life.

4269
02:38:45,600 --> 02:38:47,760
>> Comic strip Kathy made its debut in

4270
02:38:47,760 --> 02:38:50,319
newspapers 4 days later on November the

4271
02:38:50,319 --> 02:38:52,800
22nd. The strip created by an

4272
02:38:52,800 --> 02:38:54,880
advertising vice president named Kathy

4273
02:38:54,880 --> 02:38:57,600
Guysw at the daily struggles of being a

4274
02:38:57,600 --> 02:38:59,920
modern single woman. Kathy would appear

4275
02:38:59,920 --> 02:39:02,399
in over 1,400 newspapers and be spun off

4276
02:39:02,399 --> 02:39:04,160
into three prime time specials before

4277
02:39:04,160 --> 02:39:07,439
ending its 34-year run in 2010. By

4278
02:39:07,439 --> 02:39:09,760
official count, two of the many Cathy

4279
02:39:09,760 --> 02:39:11,439
comic strips that were produced are

4280
02:39:11,439 --> 02:39:13,600
actually funny.

4281
02:39:13,600 --> 02:39:15,840
Popular Canadian-American rock group,

4282
02:39:15,840 --> 02:39:18,240
The Band, held their farewell concert on

4283
02:39:18,240 --> 02:39:20,240
Thanksgiving Day at San Francisco's

4284
02:39:20,240 --> 02:39:22,640
Winterland Ballroom. Dubbed the last

4285
02:39:22,640 --> 02:39:24,399
waltz, the concert featured guest

4286
02:39:24,399 --> 02:39:26,240
appearances by several other famous

4287
02:39:26,240 --> 02:39:28,880
musicians, including Bob Dylan, Joanie

4288
02:39:28,880 --> 02:39:32,080
Mitchell, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters,

4289
02:39:32,080 --> 02:39:34,720
and Ringo Star. In addition to providing

4290
02:39:34,720 --> 02:39:36,800
turkey dinners for all 5,000 of the

4291
02:39:36,800 --> 02:39:39,040
concert's attendees, the show was filmed

4292
02:39:39,040 --> 02:39:41,040
by an upand cominging filmmaker named

4293
02:39:41,040 --> 02:39:43,120
Martin Scorsesei and released as a

4294
02:39:43,120 --> 02:39:46,160
documentary film 2 years later.

4295
02:39:46,160 --> 02:39:48,800
Moving into December, the cigar's most

4296
02:39:48,800 --> 02:39:51,520
famous brand ambassador, Fidel Castro,

4297
02:39:51,520 --> 02:39:54,080
became president of Cuba on the second.

4298
02:39:54,080 --> 02:39:55,840
Previously serving as prime minister of

4299
02:39:55,840 --> 02:39:59,040
Cuba since 1959, Castro would retain the

4300
02:39:59,040 --> 02:40:00,800
office of president of the Council of

4301
02:40:00,800 --> 02:40:02,560
State and President of the Council of

4302
02:40:02,560 --> 02:40:04,880
Ministers until 2008 when he stepped

4303
02:40:04,880 --> 02:40:06,960
aside and let his brother Raul Castro

4304
02:40:06,960 --> 02:40:08,720
take over. Oh, that's weird how that

4305
02:40:08,720 --> 02:40:10,720
worked out. Castro would remain the

4306
02:40:10,720 --> 02:40:12,479
first secretary of the Communist Party

4307
02:40:12,479 --> 02:40:15,760
of Cuba, a title he'd held since 1961

4308
02:40:15,760 --> 02:40:19,359
until his death in 2011.

4309
02:40:19,359 --> 02:40:21,680
>> Don't look down.

4310
02:40:21,680 --> 02:40:23,280
Come on out and see how it feels in the

4311
02:40:23,280 --> 02:40:25,780
lights.

4312
02:40:25,780 --> 02:40:26,880
[Music]

4313
02:40:26,880 --> 02:40:28,800
>> There aren't any lights.

4314
02:40:28,800 --> 02:40:32,160
>> You want lights? Hey, give a light.

4315
02:40:32,160 --> 02:40:34,640
>> Anti-aparttheid activist Winnie Mandela

4316
02:40:34,640 --> 02:40:36,560
was banished from Johannesburg on

4317
02:40:36,560 --> 02:40:39,600
December 28th. Mandela, the second wife

4318
02:40:39,600 --> 02:40:41,439
of fellow activist and future South

4319
02:40:41,439 --> 02:40:43,920
African president Nelson Mandela, was

4320
02:40:43,920 --> 02:40:45,600
forcibly relocated by the country's

4321
02:40:45,600 --> 02:40:47,359
apartheid government and could find to

4322
02:40:47,359 --> 02:40:49,520
Brandfort, a small remote town in the

4323
02:40:49,520 --> 02:40:51,600
Orange Free State, now the Free State

4324
02:40:51,600 --> 02:40:53,680
Province. Her banishment was just the

4325
02:40:53,680 --> 02:40:55,760
more recent form of abuse and harassment

4326
02:40:55,760 --> 02:40:57,359
she'd endured as a result of her

4327
02:40:57,359 --> 02:40:59,280
activism. She'd previously been

4328
02:40:59,280 --> 02:41:01,520
imprisoned, tortured, placed under house

4329
02:41:01,520 --> 02:41:03,760
arrest, and surveiled by the government.

4330
02:41:03,760 --> 02:41:05,439
Although her activism would continue

4331
02:41:05,439 --> 02:41:07,680
unabated, Mandela would remain confined

4332
02:41:07,680 --> 02:41:10,720
to Brandfort for the next 8 years.

4333
02:41:10,720 --> 02:41:14,560
And so 1976 boogied out the door. After

4334
02:41:14,560 --> 02:41:16,399
one last waltz with a few new

4335
02:41:16,399 --> 02:41:19,520
presidents, 1977 was up next on the

4336
02:41:19,520 --> 02:41:21,760
Jukebox, bringing with it a landmark

4337
02:41:21,760 --> 02:41:23,600
television event, one of the biggest

4338
02:41:23,600 --> 02:41:26,000
albums ever recorded, and an exciting

4339
02:41:26,000 --> 02:41:29,680
adventure in a galaxy far, far away. But

4340
02:41:29,680 --> 02:41:34,800
that's next year. Coming soon. 1977.

4341
02:41:34,800 --> 02:41:38,160
1977 made it clear from the word go that

4342
02:41:38,160 --> 02:41:40,080
a whole lot of things were about to

4343
02:41:40,080 --> 02:41:42,720
change. A newly elected president made

4344
02:41:42,720 --> 02:41:45,680
dramatic moves to heal an alien nation.

4345
02:41:45,680 --> 02:41:47,520
One of the biggest icons of the 20th

4346
02:41:47,520 --> 02:41:50,319
century was laid to rest and snow fell

4347
02:41:50,319 --> 02:41:53,200
in Miami. Like actual snow, not the kind

4348
02:41:53,200 --> 02:41:55,359
of snow crocket and tubs normally dealt

4349
02:41:55,359 --> 02:41:57,760
with. It was a year of dramatic debuts,

4350
02:41:57,760 --> 02:42:00,160
escapes, and departures. And we don't

4351
02:42:00,160 --> 02:42:02,080
mean people coming and going from the

4352
02:42:02,080 --> 02:42:04,640
roller rink. Okay, we don't just mean

4353
02:42:04,640 --> 02:42:06,640
that. It was also the year that

4354
02:42:06,640 --> 02:42:09,280
audiences around the world were first

4355
02:42:09,280 --> 02:42:11,760
transported to a galaxy far, far away,

4356
02:42:11,760 --> 02:42:13,600
and the relationship between grown

4357
02:42:13,600 --> 02:42:15,920
adults and action figures would never be

4358
02:42:15,920 --> 02:42:18,160
the same again. We're going to talk

4359
02:42:18,160 --> 02:42:20,240
about the news, culture, sports, and

4360
02:42:20,240 --> 02:42:22,720
entertainment, and all that was weird in

4361
02:42:22,720 --> 02:42:27,720
the 70s. This is Timeline.

4362
02:42:32,479 --> 02:42:34,399
Get ready to hitch a ride to Tshi

4363
02:42:34,399 --> 02:42:36,880
Station to pick up some power converters

4364
02:42:36,880 --> 02:42:40,880
because this episode is all about 1977.

4365
02:42:40,880 --> 02:42:44,080
Now fire up that Atari because this is

4366
02:42:44,080 --> 02:42:45,920
1977.

4367
02:42:45,920 --> 02:42:47,840
Starting the year would make us all mad

4368
02:42:47,840 --> 02:42:50,240
as hell as actor Peter Finch passed away

4369
02:42:50,240 --> 02:42:52,560
on the 14th. Finch had appeared on the

4370
02:42:52,560 --> 02:42:54,000
Tonight Show the night before he

4371
02:42:54,000 --> 02:42:55,439
succumbed to a heart attack in his

4372
02:42:55,439 --> 02:42:57,600
hotel. Later that year, Finch would

4373
02:42:57,600 --> 02:42:59,439
become the first actor to win aostumous

4374
02:42:59,439 --> 02:43:01,760
Oscar, nabbing a gold statue for his

4375
02:43:01,760 --> 02:43:04,240
role in Network, which was the movie he

4376
02:43:04,240 --> 02:43:06,640
had been on the Tonight Show to promote.

4377
02:43:06,640 --> 02:43:09,200
My dear tattoo, when each guest is

4378
02:43:09,200 --> 02:43:11,359
paying $50,000

4379
02:43:11,359 --> 02:43:14,240
for a 3-day stay on Fantasy Island, he

4380
02:43:14,240 --> 02:43:17,760
or she deserves miracles. Snow fell in

4381
02:43:17,760 --> 02:43:20,000
Miami for the first time in recorded

4382
02:43:20,000 --> 02:43:22,960
history on January 19th as an arctic

4383
02:43:22,960 --> 02:43:24,640
cold front swept through the Sunshine

4384
02:43:24,640 --> 02:43:26,800
State. Previously, the furthest south

4385
02:43:26,800 --> 02:43:28,960
snow had ever fallen in Florida was near

4386
02:43:28,960 --> 02:43:32,800
Fort Meyers back in 1899. So, yeah, it

4387
02:43:32,800 --> 02:43:34,720
was kind of a big deal. Speaking of

4388
02:43:34,720 --> 02:43:36,880
firsts, President Jimmy Carter pardoned

4389
02:43:36,880 --> 02:43:38,720
hundreds of thousands of American men

4390
02:43:38,720 --> 02:43:40,640
who evaded the draft during the Vietnam

4391
02:43:40,640 --> 02:43:43,040
War in his first month in office. Carter

4392
02:43:43,040 --> 02:43:44,800
had promised to pardon draft dodgers as

4393
02:43:44,800 --> 02:43:46,560
part of his presidential campaign,

4394
02:43:46,560 --> 02:43:48,240
arguing that it would help move the

4395
02:43:48,240 --> 02:43:50,080
country forward and heal the wounds of

4396
02:43:50,080 --> 02:43:52,319
the divisive and costly conflict.

4397
02:43:52,319 --> 02:43:54,160
>> Ah, you know that's your African name.

4398
02:43:54,160 --> 02:43:56,800
Musta give you a new name. Must say you

4399
02:43:56,800 --> 02:43:59,920
name to Hey, what's the matter with you?

4400
02:43:59,920 --> 02:44:02,479
Cutting me loose.

4401
02:44:02,479 --> 02:44:04,960
Kainte.

4402
02:44:04,960 --> 02:44:07,279
Moving into February, disasters struck

4403
02:44:07,279 --> 02:44:09,680
on the 4th when four cars of a loop

4404
02:44:09,680 --> 02:44:11,920
elevated train in Chicago jumped the

4405
02:44:11,920 --> 02:44:14,160
track in the middle of rush hour. The

4406
02:44:14,160 --> 02:44:15,840
accident claimed the lives of 11

4407
02:44:15,840 --> 02:44:18,720
commuters and injured 200 others. Over

4408
02:44:18,720 --> 02:44:20,800
40 years later, it remains the worst

4409
02:44:20,800 --> 02:44:22,640
elevated train disaster in the history

4410
02:44:22,640 --> 02:44:24,720
of the Chicago Transit Authority.

4411
02:44:24,720 --> 02:44:27,439
Disaster of a more artistic sort struck

4412
02:44:27,439 --> 02:44:29,600
that same day when Fleetwood Mack

4413
02:44:29,600 --> 02:44:31,279
released their groundbreaking album,

4414
02:44:31,279 --> 02:44:34,319
Rumors, recorded over an 11-month period

4415
02:44:34,319 --> 02:44:36,479
that saw the band's five members get

4416
02:44:36,479 --> 02:44:38,640
really into elicit substances, and

4417
02:44:38,640 --> 02:44:40,800
implode their personal relationships.

4418
02:44:40,800 --> 02:44:42,319
But it was all worth it for music

4419
02:44:42,319 --> 02:44:44,479
lovers. Rumors went on to top the

4420
02:44:44,479 --> 02:44:47,279
Billboard charts for 31 weeks, score an

4421
02:44:47,279 --> 02:44:49,359
album of the year Grammy, and sell more

4422
02:44:49,359 --> 02:44:51,840
than 40 million copies, making it one of

4423
02:44:51,840 --> 02:44:53,840
the bestselling albums ever produced.

4424
02:44:53,840 --> 02:44:56,160
Moving into the world of sports, boxer

4425
02:44:56,160 --> 02:44:58,160
Sugar Ray Leonard made his professional

4426
02:44:58,160 --> 02:45:00,319
debut on the 5th of February, stepping

4427
02:45:00,319 --> 02:45:02,479
into the ring with Lewis the Bull Vega

4428
02:45:02,479 --> 02:45:04,560
at the Civic Center in Baltimore.

4429
02:45:04,560 --> 02:45:06,640
However, Leonard had won a gold medal in

4430
02:45:06,640 --> 02:45:08,640
the Olympics as a light welterweight the

4431
02:45:08,640 --> 02:45:10,800
previous year. So, he wasn't exactly a

4432
02:45:10,800 --> 02:45:13,359
novice. He defeated Vega by unanimous

4433
02:45:13,359 --> 02:45:15,439
decision, beginning a 20-year career

4434
02:45:15,439 --> 02:45:17,200
that would earn him the reputation as

4435
02:45:17,200 --> 02:45:18,720
one of the greatest pound-for-pound

4436
02:45:18,720 --> 02:45:21,200
fighters of all time. 3 days later,

4437
02:45:21,200 --> 02:45:23,520
Adult magazine publisher Larry Flint was

4438
02:45:23,520 --> 02:45:25,760
sentenced to 7 years on obscenity and

4439
02:45:25,760 --> 02:45:28,240
organized crime charges. The organized

4440
02:45:28,240 --> 02:45:30,399
crime being the distribution of Flint's

4441
02:45:30,399 --> 02:45:32,640
Hustler magazine. The sentence was

4442
02:45:32,640 --> 02:45:34,560
overturned and Flint was released after

4443
02:45:34,560 --> 02:45:37,279
serving only 6 days in jail. The trial

4444
02:45:37,279 --> 02:45:39,120
was one of several brushes with the law

4445
02:45:39,120 --> 02:45:40,960
Flint had due to the graphic content of

4446
02:45:40,960 --> 02:45:43,040
his magazine and would eventually get a

4447
02:45:43,040 --> 02:45:46,880
movie in 1996's The People Versus Larry

4448
02:45:46,880 --> 02:45:48,880
Flint, starring Woody Harrelson as

4449
02:45:48,880 --> 02:45:51,200
Flint. The real life Flint has a cameo

4450
02:45:51,200 --> 02:45:53,439
as Judge William Moresy, the man who

4451
02:45:53,439 --> 02:45:55,760
handed him the 7-year prison sentence.

4452
02:45:55,760 --> 02:45:58,240
Just over 3 weeks later, pistol Pete

4453
02:45:58,240 --> 02:46:00,880
Maravic set an NBA record on February

4454
02:46:00,880 --> 02:46:03,920
25th when he scored 68 points against

4455
02:46:03,920 --> 02:46:06,160
the New York Knicks, the most ever for a

4456
02:46:06,160 --> 02:46:08,399
guard at the time. Maravic's record-

4457
02:46:08,399 --> 02:46:10,160
setting game was played before the

4458
02:46:10,160 --> 02:46:12,640
three-point line existed, which makes it

4459
02:46:12,640 --> 02:46:14,720
all the more impressive. To this day,

4460
02:46:14,720 --> 02:46:17,120
Maravic is one of only eight NBA players

4461
02:46:17,120 --> 02:46:19,359
to score 68 points or more during a

4462
02:46:19,359 --> 02:46:21,920
single game. The first killer whale born

4463
02:46:21,920 --> 02:46:24,560
in captivity came into this world on the

4464
02:46:24,560 --> 02:46:27,120
28th. Marineland of the Pacific star

4465
02:46:27,120 --> 02:46:29,840
attraction, Corki 2, unexpectedly gave

4466
02:46:29,840 --> 02:46:32,080
birth to a calf. But sadly, the baby

4467
02:46:32,080 --> 02:46:34,240
only lived for 11 days. And while

4468
02:46:34,240 --> 02:46:36,080
Marineland of the Pacific closed its

4469
02:46:36,080 --> 02:46:39,359
doors for good in 1987, Corki 2 is still

4470
02:46:39,359 --> 02:46:41,760
alive and kicking or flipping, I

4471
02:46:41,760 --> 02:46:44,479
suppose. At approximately 57 years of

4472
02:46:44,479 --> 02:46:46,880
age, she is the oldest living orca in

4473
02:46:46,880 --> 02:46:49,359
captivity. Moving into March, Bank of

4474
02:46:49,359 --> 02:46:51,359
America adopted the name Visa for its

4475
02:46:51,359 --> 02:46:53,279
credit card program on the 1st.

4476
02:46:53,279 --> 02:46:54,800
Previously, the card had been known as

4477
02:46:54,800 --> 02:46:57,840
the Bank America card and was a joint

4478
02:46:57,840 --> 02:46:59,359
program with several other financial

4479
02:46:59,359 --> 02:47:02,319
institutions. Why, Visa? The company's

4480
02:47:02,319 --> 02:47:03,840
founders believe the word was simple

4481
02:47:03,840 --> 02:47:06,479
enough to be recognized in any language.

4482
02:47:06,479 --> 02:47:08,479
That prediction turned out to be true.

4483
02:47:08,479 --> 02:47:10,880
Today, Visa is the second largest bank

4484
02:47:10,880 --> 02:47:13,520
card organization in the world. Hey,

4485
02:47:13,520 --> 02:47:15,520
it's everywhere you want to be. The next

4486
02:47:15,520 --> 02:47:17,680
day, Jay Leno made his first appearance

4487
02:47:17,680 --> 02:47:20,000
on the Tonight Show on the 2nd of March.

4488
02:47:20,000 --> 02:47:22,000
Leno's standup featured observational

4489
02:47:22,000 --> 02:47:23,600
oneliners about current events

4490
02:47:23,600 --> 02:47:25,920
punctuated by some playful crowd work.

4491
02:47:25,920 --> 02:47:27,520
All elements that would become staples

4492
02:47:27,520 --> 02:47:30,399
of his opening monologues 15 years later

4493
02:47:30,399 --> 02:47:32,399
when Leno took over hosting duties from

4494
02:47:32,399 --> 02:47:37,080
Carson on May 25th, 1992.

4495
02:47:37,920 --> 02:47:40,000
>> We'll be right back.

4496
02:47:40,000 --> 02:47:43,079
[Music]

4497
02:47:44,240 --> 02:47:46,399
Hello, I'm Chuck Connors and this is Ten

4498
02:47:46,399 --> 02:47:49,439
Can Alley. An exciting new electronic

4499
02:47:49,439 --> 02:47:51,200
target game that truly tests your

4500
02:47:51,200 --> 02:47:54,720
marksmanship from as far away as 25 ft.

4501
02:47:54,720 --> 02:47:56,399
>> Good evening.

4502
02:47:56,399 --> 02:47:57,600
>> Good morning.

4503
02:47:57,600 --> 02:48:00,080
>> Good lord. Is it morning?

4504
02:48:00,080 --> 02:48:03,200
>> Yes. Yes, it is. And if you don't mind a

4505
02:48:03,200 --> 02:48:05,680
stupid question, who are you?

4506
02:48:05,680 --> 02:48:08,399
>> Huh? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Jack. Jack

4507
02:48:08,399 --> 02:48:09,760
Triple

4508
02:48:09,760 --> 02:48:12,080
>> Elvis Presley departed for his final

4509
02:48:12,080 --> 02:48:14,880
tour on the 23rd of March. Despite being

4510
02:48:14,880 --> 02:48:16,640
in poor health, the King of Rock and

4511
02:48:16,640 --> 02:48:18,479
Roll embarked on an aggressive national

4512
02:48:18,479 --> 02:48:20,560
tour just one month after a series of

4513
02:48:20,560 --> 02:48:22,720
dates throughout the South. The shows

4514
02:48:22,720 --> 02:48:24,720
were marred by Elvis's declining

4515
02:48:24,720 --> 02:48:27,040
condition. Disappointed fans and music

4516
02:48:27,040 --> 02:48:29,200
journalists alike remarked that the

4517
02:48:29,200 --> 02:48:31,600
singer was lethargic and difficult to

4518
02:48:31,600 --> 02:48:33,359
understand. He would have to be

4519
02:48:33,359 --> 02:48:35,359
hospitalized partway through the tour

4520
02:48:35,359 --> 02:48:37,200
and have to cancel several dates before

4521
02:48:37,200 --> 02:48:40,000
playing his final show on June 26th at

4522
02:48:40,000 --> 02:48:42,399
the Market Square Arena in Indianapolis,

4523
02:48:42,399 --> 02:48:44,960
Indiana. One day after Elvis left for

4524
02:48:44,960 --> 02:48:47,359
his final string of performances, Lily

4525
02:48:47,359 --> 02:48:49,520
Tomlin became the first woman to appear

4526
02:48:49,520 --> 02:48:52,080
in a solo Broadway show. Appearing

4527
02:48:52,080 --> 02:48:54,479
nightly, which Tomlin co-wrote with Jane

4528
02:48:54,479 --> 02:48:56,640
Wagner, debuted at the Builtmore Theater

4529
02:48:56,640 --> 02:48:58,960
on the 24th. She would go on to win a

4530
02:48:58,960 --> 02:49:01,279
Tony Award for her work on the show. Two

4531
02:49:01,279 --> 02:49:04,000
Boeing 747s collided on the runway at

4532
02:49:04,000 --> 02:49:07,359
Tenneref Airport in Spain on March 27th.

4533
02:49:07,359 --> 02:49:08,800
The crash occurred due to a

4534
02:49:08,800 --> 02:49:10,640
miscommunication that caused one

4535
02:49:10,640 --> 02:49:12,960
aircraft to initiate takeoff while the

4536
02:49:12,960 --> 02:49:15,040
other was still in its path. The

4537
02:49:15,040 --> 02:49:17,760
collision claimed the lives of 583

4538
02:49:17,760 --> 02:49:20,160
people, making it the worst accident in

4539
02:49:20,160 --> 02:49:22,880
aviation history. Returning to sports,

4540
02:49:22,880 --> 02:49:24,560
the Seattle Mariners kicked off the

4541
02:49:24,560 --> 02:49:26,319
month of April by playing their first

4542
02:49:26,319 --> 02:49:29,040
game ever on the 6th. The expansion team

4543
02:49:29,040 --> 02:49:30,880
was added to the American League as the

4544
02:49:30,880 --> 02:49:33,200
result of a lawsuit that originated when

4545
02:49:33,200 --> 02:49:35,200
the Seattle Pilots were purchased and

4546
02:49:35,200 --> 02:49:38,000
relocated to Milwaukee by Bud Celig. The

4547
02:49:38,000 --> 02:49:40,479
team became the Brewers, one of only six

4548
02:49:40,479 --> 02:49:42,160
teams in Major League Baseball that has

4549
02:49:42,160 --> 02:49:44,399
yet to win a World Series along with the

4550
02:49:44,399 --> 02:49:46,880
Mariners. It was a month of firsts for

4551
02:49:46,880 --> 02:49:49,040
Major League Baseball as the Toronto

4552
02:49:49,040 --> 02:49:51,200
Blue Jays played their first game the

4553
02:49:51,200 --> 02:49:53,840
very next day. Initially one of two

4554
02:49:53,840 --> 02:49:56,080
Canadian-based teams, today the Blue

4555
02:49:56,080 --> 02:49:58,240
Jays are the only organization in the

4556
02:49:58,240 --> 02:50:01,200
MLB located outside the United States

4557
02:50:01,200 --> 02:50:02,960
after the Montreal Expose became the

4558
02:50:02,960 --> 02:50:05,920
Washington Nationals in 2005. Sorry,

4559
02:50:05,920 --> 02:50:08,080
Canada. Author Alex Haley won the

4560
02:50:08,080 --> 02:50:10,319
Puliter Prize on April 18th for his work

4561
02:50:10,319 --> 02:50:12,640
on the iconic novel Roots, a

4562
02:50:12,640 --> 02:50:14,399
fictionalized version of Haley's own

4563
02:50:14,399 --> 02:50:16,640
family history. The best-selling novel

4564
02:50:16,640 --> 02:50:18,399
was adapted into a record-breaking

4565
02:50:18,399 --> 02:50:20,880
miniseries earlier the same year.

4566
02:50:20,880 --> 02:50:22,960
>> Hi. Hi.

4567
02:50:22,960 --> 02:50:27,000
Oh, hi. Hi.

4568
02:50:27,600 --> 02:50:29,680
>> Well,

4569
02:50:29,680 --> 02:50:32,680
bye.

4570
02:50:33,200 --> 02:50:35,600
The beloved musical Annie opened for the

4571
02:50:35,600 --> 02:50:37,760
first time at New York City's Elvin

4572
02:50:37,760 --> 02:50:40,800
Theater 3 Days Later on the 21st. Based

4573
02:50:40,800 --> 02:50:42,640
on the long-running comic strip Little

4574
02:50:42,640 --> 02:50:44,800
Orphan Annie, the musical ran for a

4575
02:50:44,800 --> 02:50:47,680
record- setting six years, scoring seven

4576
02:50:47,680 --> 02:50:49,920
Tony Awards. The musical has been

4577
02:50:49,920 --> 02:50:52,399
adapted several times. most notably into

4578
02:50:52,399 --> 02:50:54,640
the 1982 John Houston film featuring

4579
02:50:54,640 --> 02:50:57,120
Albert Finny and Carol Bernett. Moving

4580
02:50:57,120 --> 02:50:59,760
into the summer, volatile screen legend

4581
02:50:59,760 --> 02:51:02,160
Joan Crawford passed away on the 10th of

4582
02:51:02,160 --> 02:51:04,800
May in her apartment in New York City.

4583
02:51:04,800 --> 02:51:06,399
One of the biggest stars of Hollywood's

4584
02:51:06,399 --> 02:51:08,479
golden age, the controversial actress

4585
02:51:08,479 --> 02:51:10,800
had become a recluse in her later years

4586
02:51:10,800 --> 02:51:13,040
and had withdrawn almost entirely from

4587
02:51:13,040 --> 02:51:15,760
the public eye. Crawford's acrimonious

4588
02:51:15,760 --> 02:51:17,279
relationship with her children,

4589
02:51:17,279 --> 02:51:19,359
particularly her eldest daughter, led to

4590
02:51:19,359 --> 02:51:21,359
the infamous tell- all book Mommy

4591
02:51:21,359 --> 02:51:23,439
Dearest, later adapted into a film

4592
02:51:23,439 --> 02:51:26,240
starring FA Dunaway. A young DJ named

4593
02:51:26,240 --> 02:51:29,920
Howard Stern began broadcasting at WRNW

4594
02:51:29,920 --> 02:51:32,960
in New York on Friday the 13th. Stern

4595
02:51:32,960 --> 02:51:34,560
had initially served as a part-time

4596
02:51:34,560 --> 02:51:36,319
host, filling in during the holiday

4597
02:51:36,319 --> 02:51:38,479
season the previous year, but took over

4598
02:51:38,479 --> 02:51:41,600
a 4-hour midday shift 6 days a week. It

4599
02:51:41,600 --> 02:51:43,520
was the beginning of Stern's career as a

4600
02:51:43,520 --> 02:51:46,000
notorious shock jock, which is still

4601
02:51:46,000 --> 02:51:48,800
going strong nearly 50 years later.

4602
02:51:48,800 --> 02:51:51,840
>> The problem is that Kors beer, you take

4603
02:51:51,840 --> 02:51:54,640
that east of Texas and that's uh that's

4604
02:51:54,640 --> 02:51:56,080
bootlegging.

4605
02:51:56,080 --> 02:51:57,520
>> You know, I believe you're just a little

4606
02:51:57,520 --> 02:51:58,960
bit scared.

4607
02:51:58,960 --> 02:52:00,319
>> That's great psychology. Why don't you

4608
02:52:00,319 --> 02:52:02,240
just say something bad about my mother?

4609
02:52:02,240 --> 02:52:02,399
It's

4610
02:52:02,399 --> 02:52:04,319
>> a little short for a stormtrooper.

4611
02:52:04,319 --> 02:52:08,479
>> Huh? Oh, the uniform.

4612
02:52:08,479 --> 02:52:10,080
>> I'm Luke Skywalker. I'm here to rescue

4613
02:52:10,080 --> 02:52:10,960
you.

4614
02:52:10,960 --> 02:52:11,680
You're

4615
02:52:11,680 --> 02:52:13,359
>> I'm here to rescue you. I've got your R2

4616
02:52:13,359 --> 02:52:14,560
unit. I'm here with Ben Kenobi.

4617
02:52:14,560 --> 02:52:15,680
>> Ben Kenobi? Where is he?

4618
02:52:15,680 --> 02:52:16,319
>> Come on.

4619
02:52:16,319 --> 02:52:18,560
>> Amateur mountain climber George Willig

4620
02:52:18,560 --> 02:52:21,040
made history on May 26th when he climbed

4621
02:52:21,040 --> 02:52:22,800
the South Tower of the World Trade

4622
02:52:22,800 --> 02:52:24,640
Center in New York City using

4623
02:52:24,640 --> 02:52:26,319
specialized equipment he developed

4624
02:52:26,319 --> 02:52:28,240
specifically for the climb. The

4625
02:52:28,240 --> 02:52:30,080
completely unsanctioned stunt took

4626
02:52:30,080 --> 02:52:32,479
nearly 4 hours and Willig was arrested

4627
02:52:32,479 --> 02:52:34,080
the instant he reached the top of the

4628
02:52:34,080 --> 02:52:36,640
tower. However, the stunt had captured

4629
02:52:36,640 --> 02:52:38,640
national attention and made Willig a

4630
02:52:38,640 --> 02:52:40,160
celebrity, earning him several

4631
02:52:40,160 --> 02:52:42,080
television appearances and the nickname

4632
02:52:42,080 --> 02:52:44,560
the human fly. He was ultimately let off

4633
02:52:44,560 --> 02:52:46,640
with a slap on the wrist, a fine of one

4634
02:52:46,640 --> 02:52:49,040
penny per floor he'd climbed for a grand

4635
02:52:49,040 --> 02:52:52,240
total of $110.

4636
02:52:52,240 --> 02:52:54,640
Punk band The Sex Pistols released their

4637
02:52:54,640 --> 02:52:57,040
second single, God Save the Queen, the

4638
02:52:57,040 --> 02:52:59,120
next day. The song, which contains

4639
02:52:59,120 --> 02:53:01,200
incendiary lyrics about Queen Elizabeth

4640
02:53:01,200 --> 02:53:04,080
II and monarchies in general and was

4641
02:53:04,080 --> 02:53:05,680
pointedly released during the Queen's

4642
02:53:05,680 --> 02:53:08,160
Silver Jubilee, was immediately banned

4643
02:53:08,160 --> 02:53:10,479
by the BBC and many other radio stations

4644
02:53:10,479 --> 02:53:12,960
in the United Kingdom. But it wasn't

4645
02:53:12,960 --> 02:53:15,439
just radio stations that were offended.

4646
02:53:15,439 --> 02:53:17,279
Singer Johnny Rotten and drummer Paul

4647
02:53:17,279 --> 02:53:19,040
Cook were both attacked on separate

4648
02:53:19,040 --> 02:53:21,920
occasions by random Brits enraged by the

4649
02:53:21,920 --> 02:53:24,160
song. That kind of seems pretty punk.

4650
02:53:24,160 --> 02:53:26,160
God Save the Queen, holds the dubious

4651
02:53:26,160 --> 02:53:27,600
distinction of being one of the most

4652
02:53:27,600 --> 02:53:31,439
banned records in the history of music.

4653
02:53:31,439 --> 02:53:34,319
Speaking of notoriety, James Earl Ray,

4654
02:53:34,319 --> 02:53:35,840
the man convicted of assassinating

4655
02:53:35,840 --> 02:53:38,160
Martin Luther King Jr., escaped from

4656
02:53:38,160 --> 02:53:39,680
Tennessee's Brushy Mountain State

4657
02:53:39,680 --> 02:53:42,240
Penitentiary on the 10th of June. Ray

4658
02:53:42,240 --> 02:53:44,399
fled the prison with six other inmates,

4659
02:53:44,399 --> 02:53:46,560
but he was quickly recaptured 3 days

4660
02:53:46,560 --> 02:53:48,479
later after being tracked down by blood

4661
02:53:48,479 --> 02:53:51,279
hounds. It was actually the second time

4662
02:53:51,279 --> 02:53:53,439
Ry had broken out of jail. He'd

4663
02:53:53,439 --> 02:53:54,960
previously escaped from the Missouri

4664
02:53:54,960 --> 02:53:58,319
State Penitentiary in 1967 by hiding in

4665
02:53:58,319 --> 02:54:00,160
a bread truck, where he'd been serving a

4666
02:54:00,160 --> 02:54:02,399
20-year sentence for armed robbery and

4667
02:54:02,399 --> 02:54:03,760
was still on the run when he took the

4668
02:54:03,760 --> 02:54:07,120
civil rights leader's life. Just over 2

4669
02:54:07,120 --> 02:54:09,279
weeks later, the Supreme Court ruled in

4670
02:54:09,279 --> 02:54:11,840
a 5-4 decision allowing lawyers to

4671
02:54:11,840 --> 02:54:14,640
advertise their services. That probably

4672
02:54:14,640 --> 02:54:16,720
seems weird because most of us can't

4673
02:54:16,720 --> 02:54:18,479
conceive of a world in which we don't

4674
02:54:18,479 --> 02:54:19,840
have the commercial jingle of our

4675
02:54:19,840 --> 02:54:21,680
hometown personal injury law firm

4676
02:54:21,680 --> 02:54:24,240
memorized. But prior to that ruling,

4677
02:54:24,240 --> 02:54:26,399
lawyers were bound by an antiquated bar

4678
02:54:26,399 --> 02:54:28,720
association tradition that argued they

4679
02:54:28,720 --> 02:54:30,240
should build up their clientele through

4680
02:54:30,240 --> 02:54:32,720
good work and word of mouth. Well, those

4681
02:54:32,720 --> 02:54:35,200
aren't antiquated ideals. Billboards,

4682
02:54:35,200 --> 02:54:37,520
bus ads, and local TV spots haven't been

4683
02:54:37,520 --> 02:54:39,200
the same since.

4684
02:54:39,200 --> 02:54:40,560
>> Justice.

4685
02:54:40,560 --> 02:54:42,720
>> Vladimir Nabacov kicked off the month of

4686
02:54:42,720 --> 02:54:45,520
July by well, kicking off. The

4687
02:54:45,520 --> 02:54:47,680
Russian-American novelist and author of

4688
02:54:47,680 --> 02:54:51,200
the controversial 1955 novel Lolita

4689
02:54:51,200 --> 02:54:53,600
passed away in the second at age 78 at

4690
02:54:53,600 --> 02:54:56,240
the Matro Palace Hotel in Switzerland.

4691
02:54:56,240 --> 02:54:58,000
He had been in the middle of working on

4692
02:54:58,000 --> 02:55:00,800
a new novel titled The Original of Laura

4693
02:55:00,800 --> 02:55:02,640
which was published in its incomplete

4694
02:55:02,640 --> 02:55:06,359
form in 2009.

4695
02:55:07,200 --> 02:55:09,600
>> 7X.

4696
02:55:09,600 --> 02:55:13,319
What do you think you're doing?

4697
02:55:13,600 --> 02:55:17,840
Keeping the British hand up, son.

4698
02:55:17,840 --> 02:55:20,140
>> We'll be right back.

4699
02:55:20,140 --> 02:55:23,120
[Music]

4700
02:55:23,120 --> 02:55:26,479
>> I drink Dr. Pepper and I'm proud. I'm

4701
02:55:26,479 --> 02:55:29,279
part of an original crowd.

4702
02:55:29,279 --> 02:55:32,560
And if you look around these days, there

4703
02:55:32,560 --> 02:55:35,600
seems to be a Dr. Pepper craze.

4704
02:55:35,600 --> 02:55:37,600
I'm a pepper. He's a pepper. She's a

4705
02:55:37,600 --> 02:55:39,200
pepper. We're a pepper. Wouldn't you

4706
02:55:39,200 --> 02:55:42,560
like to be a pepper, too? I'm a pepper.

4707
02:55:42,560 --> 02:55:44,720
He's a pepper. She's a pepper. If you

4708
02:55:44,720 --> 02:55:46,880
drink Dr. Pepper, you're a pepper, too.

4709
02:55:46,880 --> 02:55:50,399
Be a pepper. Drink Dr. Pepper. Be a

4710
02:55:50,399 --> 02:55:52,399
pepper.

4711
02:55:52,399 --> 02:55:54,960
The CIA unwillingly revealed its

4712
02:55:54,960 --> 02:55:57,279
involvement in mind control experiments

4713
02:55:57,279 --> 02:55:59,920
after 20,000 pages of documents were

4714
02:55:59,920 --> 02:56:01,840
discovered following a Freedom of

4715
02:56:01,840 --> 02:56:04,800
Information Act request on July 15th.

4716
02:56:04,800 --> 02:56:06,800
CIA director Richard Helms had

4717
02:56:06,800 --> 02:56:08,319
previously ordered the destruction of

4718
02:56:08,319 --> 02:56:10,479
all documents related to the project

4719
02:56:10,479 --> 02:56:13,520
known as MK Ultra. But this cache of

4720
02:56:13,520 --> 02:56:16,399
documents had been misfiled or hidden

4721
02:56:16,399 --> 02:56:18,960
leading to their discovery. The project

4722
02:56:18,960 --> 02:56:20,800
involved the study of the effects of

4723
02:56:20,800 --> 02:56:23,439
different drugs and procedures on humans

4724
02:56:23,439 --> 02:56:25,680
with the goal of identifying ways to

4725
02:56:25,680 --> 02:56:27,680
make subjects more pliable during

4726
02:56:27,680 --> 02:56:30,800
interrogation. MK Ultra has subsequently

4727
02:56:30,800 --> 02:56:32,560
been the basis of several conspiracy

4728
02:56:32,560 --> 02:56:34,880
theories and one or two TV shows as

4729
02:56:34,880 --> 02:56:37,439
well. Powering up the month of August,

4730
02:56:37,439 --> 02:56:39,520
President Carter established the US

4731
02:56:39,520 --> 02:56:41,840
Department of Energy on the 4th. The

4732
02:56:41,840 --> 02:56:43,680
move was intended to help America

4733
02:56:43,680 --> 02:56:45,760
recover from the unprecedented energy

4734
02:56:45,760 --> 02:56:48,800
crisis of the 1970s by promoting energy

4735
02:56:48,800 --> 02:56:50,640
development, conservation, and

4736
02:56:50,640 --> 02:56:52,640
regulation, and decreasing the nation's

4737
02:56:52,640 --> 02:56:54,880
dependence on fossil fuels. As many

4738
02:56:54,880 --> 02:56:56,640
Americans were still feeling the effects

4739
02:56:56,640 --> 02:57:00,399
of the 1973 oil embargo, the DOE was

4740
02:57:00,399 --> 02:57:02,240
tasked with researching new energy

4741
02:57:02,240 --> 02:57:04,160
technologies as well as supporting

4742
02:57:04,160 --> 02:57:07,200
nuclear weapons research. So, you know,

4743
02:57:07,200 --> 02:57:09,200
it wasn't all about putting solar panels

4744
02:57:09,200 --> 02:57:11,359
on the White House.

4745
02:57:11,359 --> 02:57:14,640
6 days later, David Burkowitz, aka the

4746
02:57:14,640 --> 02:57:16,720
son of Sam, was arrested while leaving

4747
02:57:16,720 --> 02:57:19,600
his home in Yonkers. The 24year-old

4748
02:57:19,600 --> 02:57:22,000
burkowitz had terrorized New York City

4749
02:57:22,000 --> 02:57:24,240
for an entire year by ambushing

4750
02:57:24,240 --> 02:57:27,120
unsuspecting victims, usually couples,

4751
02:57:27,120 --> 02:57:29,439
and opening fire on them with a 44

4752
02:57:29,439 --> 02:57:32,080
caliber handgun. Burkowitz was convicted

4753
02:57:32,080 --> 02:57:36,080
and sentenced to six life sentences.

4754
02:57:36,080 --> 02:57:39,040
5 days later, a notorious Nazi escaped

4755
02:57:39,040 --> 02:57:42,080
from custody hidden inside a suitcase.

4756
02:57:42,080 --> 02:57:44,479
Herbet Kappler, the head of the SS in

4757
02:57:44,479 --> 02:57:46,640
Rome during World War II, was carried

4758
02:57:46,640 --> 02:57:49,359
out of an Italian hospital by his wife.

4759
02:57:49,359 --> 02:57:51,359
Kappler had been serving a life sentence

4760
02:57:51,359 --> 02:57:53,600
in a military prison in Italy after

4761
02:57:53,600 --> 02:57:55,760
being convicted by a war tribunal, but

4762
02:57:55,760 --> 02:57:57,279
had been transferred to the hospital

4763
02:57:57,279 --> 02:57:59,520
after he was diagnosed with cancer.

4764
02:57:59,520 --> 02:58:01,200
Because of his rapidly declining

4765
02:58:01,200 --> 02:58:03,040
condition, the West German government

4766
02:58:03,040 --> 02:58:05,040
declined to extradite him back to Italy,

4767
02:58:05,040 --> 02:58:07,040
and he succumbed to his illness just 6

4768
02:58:07,040 --> 02:58:09,439
months after his escape. No word on

4769
02:58:09,439 --> 02:58:10,720
whether he was carried out of his home

4770
02:58:10,720 --> 02:58:13,600
in a fabulous luggage set.

4771
02:58:13,600 --> 02:58:16,240
One day later, the king of rock and roll

4772
02:58:16,240 --> 02:58:18,399
passed away at his home in Memphis,

4773
02:58:18,399 --> 02:58:20,720
Tennessee. Elvis Presley was found

4774
02:58:20,720 --> 02:58:22,319
unresponsive on the floor of his

4775
02:58:22,319 --> 02:58:24,479
Graceand mansion, having succumbed to a

4776
02:58:24,479 --> 02:58:27,040
heart attack at the age of 42. He was

4777
02:58:27,040 --> 02:58:29,200
buried on the grounds of Graceand, which

4778
02:58:29,200 --> 02:58:31,200
remains open to this day as a tourist

4779
02:58:31,200 --> 02:58:32,960
attraction.

4780
02:58:32,960 --> 02:58:35,279
A more welcome departure occurred 4 days

4781
02:58:35,279 --> 02:58:37,840
later when NASA launched the Voyager 2

4782
02:58:37,840 --> 02:58:40,479
probe on August 20th towards Jupiter,

4783
02:58:40,479 --> 02:58:43,840
Neptune, and Uranus. To date, Voyager 2

4784
02:58:43,840 --> 02:58:45,680
is the only craft to visit the two

4785
02:58:45,680 --> 02:58:48,000
furthest planets of our solar system,

4786
02:58:48,000 --> 02:58:50,560
and it's still functioning. It left the

4787
02:58:50,560 --> 02:58:53,520
solar system in 2018, and despite a few

4788
02:58:53,520 --> 02:58:55,359
hiccups, it remains in contact with

4789
02:58:55,359 --> 02:58:57,040
Earth as it continues on its

4790
02:58:57,040 --> 02:58:59,200
interstellar mission.

4791
02:58:59,200 --> 02:59:01,760
Comedy icon Groucho Marks delivered his

4792
02:59:01,760 --> 02:59:05,279
final punchline on the 19th at age 86.

4793
02:59:05,279 --> 02:59:07,120
One of the most recognizable stars of

4794
02:59:07,120 --> 02:59:09,439
his era thanks to his trademark eyebrows

4795
02:59:09,439 --> 02:59:11,760
and mustache and perpetual cigar,

4796
02:59:11,760 --> 02:59:13,840
Groucho's rapid fire delivery and

4797
02:59:13,840 --> 02:59:15,920
dizzying word play helped make the Markx

4798
02:59:15,920 --> 02:59:17,680
brothers a household name.

4799
02:59:17,680 --> 02:59:19,200
>> Hello,

4800
02:59:19,200 --> 02:59:22,240
I must be going.

4801
02:59:22,240 --> 02:59:24,000
>> Bridging the gap into September,

4802
02:59:24,000 --> 02:59:26,080
President Carter signed the Panama Canal

4803
02:59:26,080 --> 02:59:28,479
Treaties on the 7th. The treaties would

4804
02:59:28,479 --> 02:59:30,720
turn over control of the canal to Panama

4805
02:59:30,720 --> 02:59:33,520
after 1999, but also guarantee the

4806
02:59:33,520 --> 02:59:34,880
United States the right to defend

4807
02:59:34,880 --> 02:59:36,560
neutral access to the canal in

4808
02:59:36,560 --> 02:59:38,560
perpetuity. The decision was

4809
02:59:38,560 --> 02:59:40,640
controversial. Many prominent political

4810
02:59:40,640 --> 02:59:42,160
figures, including future President

4811
02:59:42,160 --> 02:59:43,920
Ronald Reagan, viewed it as

4812
02:59:43,920 --> 02:59:46,000
relinquishing a valuable asset to a

4813
02:59:46,000 --> 02:59:48,080
potential enemy, but the treaties were

4814
02:59:48,080 --> 02:59:50,319
upheld and jurisdiction of the canal was

4815
02:59:50,319 --> 02:59:52,960
handed over to Panama on December 31st,

4816
02:59:52,960 --> 02:59:55,120
1999.

4817
02:59:55,120 --> 02:59:58,160
3 days later, France sent the last

4818
02:59:58,160 --> 03:00:00,640
person to the guillotine when Hamida

4819
03:00:00,640 --> 03:00:03,359
Jean Dubie was executed on the 10th.

4820
03:00:03,359 --> 03:00:05,359
John Dubie had been convicted in the

4821
03:00:05,359 --> 03:00:07,680
abduction and slaying of Elizabeth

4822
03:00:07,680 --> 03:00:10,640
Buskeet earlier that year. His sentence

4823
03:00:10,640 --> 03:00:12,640
marked the final time the guillotine was

4824
03:00:12,640 --> 03:00:15,120
used for capital punishment in France.

4825
03:00:15,120 --> 03:00:17,040
Four years later, France would outlaw

4826
03:00:17,040 --> 03:00:19,760
the death penalty altogether.

4827
03:00:19,760 --> 03:00:22,560
Atari released their first game console,

4828
03:00:22,560 --> 03:00:25,840
the Atari 2600 on September 11th.

4829
03:00:25,840 --> 03:00:28,640
Initially called Atari VCS or video

4830
03:00:28,640 --> 03:00:30,560
computer system, the console quickly

4831
03:00:30,560 --> 03:00:32,960
became the dominant force in home gaming

4832
03:00:32,960 --> 03:00:34,800
and would remain at the top for the next

4833
03:00:34,800 --> 03:00:37,200
several years until a certain

4834
03:00:37,200 --> 03:00:40,720
mustachioed plumber came along.

4835
03:00:40,720 --> 03:00:42,319
>> You almost closed a book.

4836
03:00:42,319 --> 03:00:45,359
>> Stunned. It was beautiful. Come on,

4837
03:00:45,359 --> 03:00:46,240
admit it.

4838
03:00:46,240 --> 03:00:49,279
>> Welcome aboard the Love Boat. The what?

4839
03:00:49,279 --> 03:00:50,880
Oh, that's just a little nickname. We

4840
03:00:50,880 --> 03:00:54,000
have the doctor. In my presence, don't

4841
03:00:54,000 --> 03:00:56,800
ever call this ship a love boat.

4842
03:00:56,800 --> 03:00:59,120
>> The supersonic Concord jet made its

4843
03:00:59,120 --> 03:01:00,960
first landing in New York City on

4844
03:01:00,960 --> 03:01:03,920
October 20th, touching down at 11:12

4845
03:01:03,920 --> 03:01:06,720
a.m. at Kennedy International Airport.

4846
03:01:06,720 --> 03:01:09,040
The jet took off from Tuloo, France,

4847
03:01:09,040 --> 03:01:11,200
making the 3,800 mile trip across the

4848
03:01:11,200 --> 03:01:13,439
Atlantic Ocean in 3 hours and 45

4849
03:01:13,439 --> 03:01:15,680
minutes. Despite the appeal of a

4850
03:01:15,680 --> 03:01:18,000
high-speed transatlantic flight, the

4851
03:01:18,000 --> 03:01:20,160
Concord was met with stiff opposition

4852
03:01:20,160 --> 03:01:22,240
from New York City residents who

4853
03:01:22,240 --> 03:01:24,319
objected to the incredibly high decibel

4854
03:01:24,319 --> 03:01:26,080
levels the plane generated during

4855
03:01:26,080 --> 03:01:28,399
takeoff. It's tough to argue with him.

4856
03:01:28,399 --> 03:01:30,960
The plane generated actual sonic booms

4857
03:01:30,960 --> 03:01:34,160
like a Street Fighter 2 character.

4858
03:01:34,160 --> 03:01:36,479
Speaking of planes, three members of the

4859
03:01:36,479 --> 03:01:38,640
southern rock band Leonard Skard

4860
03:01:38,640 --> 03:01:40,560
perished when their chartered Convair

4861
03:01:40,560 --> 03:01:42,880
240 crashed in Mississippi that same

4862
03:01:42,880 --> 03:01:45,200
day. The band was flying from South

4863
03:01:45,200 --> 03:01:47,680
Carolina to Louisiana for a show when

4864
03:01:47,680 --> 03:01:49,439
their plane ran out of fuel and had to

4865
03:01:49,439 --> 03:01:51,840
make an emergency landing. The airline

4866
03:01:51,840 --> 03:01:53,520
collided with the treeine and broke

4867
03:01:53,520 --> 03:01:56,240
apart. Lead vocalist Ronnie Vanzant,

4868
03:01:56,240 --> 03:01:58,640
guitarist Steve Gaines, and Gaines's

4869
03:01:58,640 --> 03:02:01,279
sister, backup vocalist Cassie Gaines,

4870
03:02:01,279 --> 03:02:03,600
died instantly along with both pilots

4871
03:02:03,600 --> 03:02:06,560
and the band's tour manager.

4872
03:02:06,560 --> 03:02:08,720
Popular singer and Oscar-winning actor

4873
03:02:08,720 --> 03:02:11,279
Bing Crosby cruned his final song on

4874
03:02:11,279 --> 03:02:14,000
October 14th. One of the most popular

4875
03:02:14,000 --> 03:02:15,680
entertainers of the first half of the

4876
03:02:15,680 --> 03:02:18,160
20th century, Crosby collapsed on a golf

4877
03:02:18,160 --> 03:02:20,720
course in Spain after playing 18 holes,

4878
03:02:20,720 --> 03:02:24,479
succumbing to a heart attack at age 74.

4879
03:02:24,479 --> 03:02:26,720
President Carter raised the US minimum

4880
03:02:26,720 --> 03:02:30,000
wage to $3.35 an hour on the first day

4881
03:02:30,000 --> 03:02:32,720
of November, just in time for Black

4882
03:02:32,720 --> 03:02:36,640
Friday. The new figure was $15 higher

4883
03:02:36,640 --> 03:02:40,000
than the previous minimum wage of $2.30,

4884
03:02:40,000 --> 03:02:42,319
an increase of nearly 50%. That's no

4885
03:02:42,319 --> 03:02:44,720
small potatoes or peanuts, you know,

4886
03:02:44,720 --> 03:02:46,080
because we're talking about Jimmy

4887
03:02:46,080 --> 03:02:48,399
Carter.

4888
03:02:48,399 --> 03:02:50,720
>> Okay, listen. I like you. We could dance

4889
03:02:50,720 --> 03:02:52,319
together. That's it. We could just dance

4890
03:02:52,319 --> 03:02:53,760
together. I don't know. Nothing more.

4891
03:02:53,760 --> 03:02:55,200
Nothing personal. I don't want you

4892
03:02:55,200 --> 03:02:56,080
coming on to me.

4893
03:02:56,080 --> 03:02:57,120
>> Oh, no.

4894
03:02:57,120 --> 03:02:58,479
>> Because I don't think guys like you

4895
03:02:58,479 --> 03:03:01,120
anymore for one thing.

4896
03:03:01,120 --> 03:03:03,439
>> English folk musician Cat Stevens

4897
03:03:03,439 --> 03:03:06,240
converted to Islam on December 23rd,

4898
03:03:06,240 --> 03:03:08,000
leaving the music industry behind him

4899
03:03:08,000 --> 03:03:10,720
for the next two decades. Following a

4900
03:03:10,720 --> 03:03:12,640
near-death experience the previous year

4901
03:03:12,640 --> 03:03:14,399
and what he later described as a

4902
03:03:14,399 --> 03:03:16,720
lifelong search for spiritual meaning,

4903
03:03:16,720 --> 03:03:18,880
Steven subsequently changed his name to

4904
03:03:18,880 --> 03:03:21,600
Ysef Islam. With the exception of a

4905
03:03:21,600 --> 03:03:23,439
charity concert in Wembley Stadium in

4906
03:03:23,439 --> 03:03:26,880
1979, he did not perform again for 25

4907
03:03:26,880 --> 03:03:29,439
years.

4908
03:03:29,439 --> 03:03:31,200
Arguably one of the most famous

4909
03:03:31,200 --> 03:03:33,439
entertainers to have ever lived, Charlie

4910
03:03:33,439 --> 03:03:35,920
Chaplan passed away on Christmas Day at

4911
03:03:35,920 --> 03:03:39,120
age 88. The silent film star dominated

4912
03:03:39,120 --> 03:03:41,600
Hollywood in its early years, but he

4913
03:03:41,600 --> 03:03:43,680
left the United States after a series of

4914
03:03:43,680 --> 03:03:46,000
controversies and permanently relocated

4915
03:03:46,000 --> 03:03:48,720
to Switzerland in the 1950s. The events

4916
03:03:48,720 --> 03:03:50,640
of his life would later be dramatized in

4917
03:03:50,640 --> 03:03:53,279
the 1992 film Chaplain, directed by

4918
03:03:53,279 --> 03:03:54,960
Richard Adenboroough, the guy from

4919
03:03:54,960 --> 03:03:56,960
Jurassic Park, and starring Robert

4920
03:03:56,960 --> 03:03:59,200
Downey Jr.

4921
03:03:59,200 --> 03:04:02,080
Infamous serial killer Ted Bundy escaped

4922
03:04:02,080 --> 03:04:04,080
from prison on the second to last day of

4923
03:04:04,080 --> 03:04:06,720
1977, climbing out through the ceiling

4924
03:04:06,720 --> 03:04:09,520
of his Colorado jail cell. Bundy had

4925
03:04:09,520 --> 03:04:11,520
been awaiting trial and had already

4926
03:04:11,520 --> 03:04:13,520
escaped once before, leaping from a

4927
03:04:13,520 --> 03:04:15,680
courthouse library in Aspen back in

4928
03:04:15,680 --> 03:04:17,840
June. However, while he was quickly

4929
03:04:17,840 --> 03:04:19,680
apprehended that first time, he would

4930
03:04:19,680 --> 03:04:21,760
stay on the run for nearly 3 months,

4931
03:04:21,760 --> 03:04:24,000
during which time his victim count would

4932
03:04:24,000 --> 03:04:28,399
continue to rise. And so 1977 came to a

4933
03:04:28,399 --> 03:04:30,720
close with a curtain call of a [ __ ] and

4934
03:04:30,720 --> 03:04:33,279
the most notorious predator in history

4935
03:04:33,279 --> 03:04:36,319
on the loose. 1978 was pulling up late

4936
03:04:36,319 --> 03:04:38,800
to the party riding shotgun with a guy

4937
03:04:38,800 --> 03:04:40,960
you wouldn't like when he's angry. A

4938
03:04:40,960 --> 03:04:43,040
historic blizzard and one of the most

4939
03:04:43,040 --> 03:04:45,120
infamous accidents in the history of

4940
03:04:45,120 --> 03:04:49,200
televised stunts. But that's next year.

4941
03:04:49,200 --> 03:04:52,800
Coming soon. 1978.

4942
03:04:52,800 --> 03:04:56,240
1978 saw the decade begin to draw to a

4943
03:04:56,240 --> 03:04:58,960
close, and it wasn't shaping up to be a

4944
03:04:58,960 --> 03:05:01,520
particularly happy ending. The year was

4945
03:05:01,520 --> 03:05:03,680
fraught with shocking acts of violence,

4946
03:05:03,680 --> 03:05:06,240
including the grim origin of the phrase

4947
03:05:06,240 --> 03:05:08,479
drinking the Kool-Aid. But there were

4948
03:05:08,479 --> 03:05:11,040
also a few bright spots, such as the

4949
03:05:11,040 --> 03:05:12,960
debut of an exciting British rock

4950
03:05:12,960 --> 03:05:14,800
three-piece, the first appearance of the

4951
03:05:14,800 --> 03:05:16,960
most famous binge eating cat in recorded

4952
03:05:16,960 --> 03:05:18,880
history, and the release of some

4953
03:05:18,880 --> 03:05:20,720
soon-to-be classic comedies that would

4954
03:05:20,720 --> 03:05:23,040
begin to define the tone of pop culture

4955
03:05:23,040 --> 03:05:25,600
in the 1980s. We're going to talk about

4956
03:05:25,600 --> 03:05:27,359
the news, culture, sports, and

4957
03:05:27,359 --> 03:05:29,760
entertainment, and all that was weird in

4958
03:05:29,760 --> 03:05:35,000
the 70s. This is Timeline.

4959
03:05:37,000 --> 03:05:39,680
[Music]

4960
03:05:39,680 --> 03:05:41,600
Get ready to learn about the inspiration

4961
03:05:41,600 --> 03:05:43,359
behind several future Netflix

4962
03:05:43,359 --> 03:05:46,160
documentaries because this episode is

4963
03:05:46,160 --> 03:05:48,479
all about 1978.

4964
03:05:48,479 --> 03:05:51,200
Now get ready to believe a man can fly

4965
03:05:51,200 --> 03:05:54,000
because this is 1978.

4966
03:05:54,000 --> 03:05:56,319
Harvey Mil became the first openly gay

4967
03:05:56,319 --> 03:05:58,319
person to be elected to public office in

4968
03:05:58,319 --> 03:06:00,319
California's history when he took his

4969
03:06:00,319 --> 03:06:02,000
seat on San Francisco's Board of

4970
03:06:02,000 --> 03:06:04,720
Supervisors on January 8th. Milk was an

4971
03:06:04,720 --> 03:06:07,680
outspoken LGBTQ advocate and during his

4972
03:06:07,680 --> 03:06:09,200
time in office, he sponsored a

4973
03:06:09,200 --> 03:06:10,560
successful bill that prohibited

4974
03:06:10,560 --> 03:06:12,399
discrimination on the basis of sexual

4975
03:06:12,399 --> 03:06:14,640
orientation. But his time as a public

4976
03:06:14,640 --> 03:06:17,120
servant would be cut short. More on that

4977
03:06:17,120 --> 03:06:19,520
later in the year. The final Volkswagen

4978
03:06:19,520 --> 03:06:21,600
Beetle to be manufactured in Germany

4979
03:06:21,600 --> 03:06:23,520
rolled out of the factory just under 2

4980
03:06:23,520 --> 03:06:25,920
weeks later on the 19th. Officially

4981
03:06:25,920 --> 03:06:28,240
known as the Volkswagen Type 1, the

4982
03:06:28,240 --> 03:06:30,160
popular automobile would continue to be

4983
03:06:30,160 --> 03:06:32,319
manufactured in Brazil and Mexico until

4984
03:06:32,319 --> 03:06:34,960
2003, making it the longest running and

4985
03:06:34,960 --> 03:06:37,680
most manufactured car model in history.

4986
03:06:37,680 --> 03:06:40,479
Far out, man. 11 days later, legendary

4987
03:06:40,479 --> 03:06:42,960
talk show host Larry King went on the

4988
03:06:42,960 --> 03:06:45,760
air nationwide for the first time when

4989
03:06:45,760 --> 03:06:47,359
the Larry King Show premiered on the

4990
03:06:47,359 --> 03:06:49,520
30th. In a format that would become the

4991
03:06:49,520 --> 03:06:52,000
bedrock of his career, King's Daily Show

4992
03:06:52,000 --> 03:06:53,520
would begin with an interview with a

4993
03:06:53,520 --> 03:06:55,600
guest and end with King taking calls

4994
03:06:55,600 --> 03:06:57,600
from his listeners. The Larry King Show

4995
03:06:57,600 --> 03:07:00,000
would stay on the air until 1994 and

4996
03:07:00,000 --> 03:07:02,000
would be spun off into King's massively

4997
03:07:02,000 --> 03:07:04,800
popular TV talk show Larry King Live in

4998
03:07:04,800 --> 03:07:07,520
1985. Embattled film director Roman

4999
03:07:07,520 --> 03:07:09,840
Palansky fled the United States the next

5000
03:07:09,840 --> 03:07:12,160
day, hopping a plane to London to avoid

5001
03:07:12,160 --> 03:07:14,720
a prison sentence for unlawful sexual

5002
03:07:14,720 --> 03:07:16,800
intercourse with a minor. Palansky

5003
03:07:16,800 --> 03:07:18,640
pleaded guilty to the charge as part of

5004
03:07:18,640 --> 03:07:20,880
a deal to avoid jail time, but he had

5005
03:07:20,880 --> 03:07:22,560
heard that the judge intended to throw

5006
03:07:22,560 --> 03:07:24,880
out the deal and slap him with a 50-year

5007
03:07:24,880 --> 03:07:26,880
sentence. The director flew from London

5008
03:07:26,880 --> 03:07:28,560
to his home country of France the

5009
03:07:28,560 --> 03:07:30,240
following day, where he has mostly

5010
03:07:30,240 --> 03:07:32,319
remained ever since. Less than a week

5011
03:07:32,319 --> 03:07:34,960
later, the infamous blizzard of 78

5012
03:07:34,960 --> 03:07:37,279
struck the Northeast United States,

5013
03:07:37,279 --> 03:07:39,359
burying the Midwest and East Coast in

5014
03:07:39,359 --> 03:07:41,680
some serious snow. The storm lingered

5015
03:07:41,680 --> 03:07:43,840
for two days, delivering record-breaking

5016
03:07:43,840 --> 03:07:46,080
snowfalls of over 20 ines in several

5017
03:07:46,080 --> 03:07:48,319
areas. By the time the storm broke up on

5018
03:07:48,319 --> 03:07:50,000
February 7th, it had claimed

5019
03:07:50,000 --> 03:07:52,800
approximately 100 lives and caused over

5020
03:07:52,800 --> 03:07:55,120
half a billion dollars in damage. A week

5021
03:07:55,120 --> 03:07:57,520
later, the first micro on a chip was

5022
03:07:57,520 --> 03:07:59,600
patented by Texas Instruments on

5023
03:07:59,600 --> 03:08:02,000
Valentine's Day. Well, that's romantic.

5024
03:08:02,000 --> 03:08:03,680
Designed by Gary Boone and Michael

5025
03:08:03,680 --> 03:08:05,760
Cochran, the chip was used in Texas

5026
03:08:05,760 --> 03:08:08,240
Instruments iconic educational toy Speak

5027
03:08:08,240 --> 03:08:10,000
and Spell, which was unveiled four

5028
03:08:10,000 --> 03:08:11,760
months later at the Consumer Electronic

5029
03:08:11,760 --> 03:08:13,600
Show. ET would later use this

5030
03:08:13,600 --> 03:08:15,600
revolutionary technology in the 80s to

5031
03:08:15,600 --> 03:08:18,720
phone home. 10 to1 underdog Leon Spinx

5032
03:08:18,720 --> 03:08:20,080
defeated the reigning heavyweight

5033
03:08:20,080 --> 03:08:22,640
champion Muhammad Ali the next day.

5034
03:08:22,640 --> 03:08:24,479
Spinx outlasted the legendary champ,

5035
03:08:24,479 --> 03:08:26,399
winning by decision, becoming the first

5036
03:08:26,399 --> 03:08:28,399
person ever to strip Ali of his world

5037
03:08:28,399 --> 03:08:30,800
title in the ring. However, Spinx would

5038
03:08:30,800 --> 03:08:33,040
lose that title just over a month later

5039
03:08:33,040 --> 03:08:34,399
when he refused to defend his

5040
03:08:34,399 --> 03:08:35,920
heavyweight belt against number one

5041
03:08:35,920 --> 03:08:38,720
contender Ken Norton. March kicked off

5042
03:08:38,720 --> 03:08:41,120
with a bizarre heist. Two auto mechanics

5043
03:08:41,120 --> 03:08:42,800
stole the earthly remains of Charlie

5044
03:08:42,800 --> 03:08:44,800
Chaplain on the first. The two men

5045
03:08:44,800 --> 03:08:46,800
exumed the famed filmmaker's casket and

5046
03:08:46,800 --> 03:08:48,560
attempted to ransom it to Chaplain's

5047
03:08:48,560 --> 03:08:52,399
widow, Una, for $600,000. She refused,

5048
03:08:52,399 --> 03:08:54,000
which turned out to be the right move.

5049
03:08:54,000 --> 03:08:55,920
The culprits were caught just 5 weeks

5050
03:08:55,920 --> 03:08:59,040
later and Chaplain was reeri grave to

5051
03:08:59,040 --> 03:09:00,800
prevent future criminal entrepreneurs

5052
03:09:00,800 --> 03:09:03,200
from getting any ideas. Notorious

5053
03:09:03,200 --> 03:09:05,359
Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flint

5054
03:09:05,359 --> 03:09:07,920
was wounded by a sniper on the 6th of

5055
03:09:07,920 --> 03:09:10,080
March. Flint and his lawyer were struck

5056
03:09:10,080 --> 03:09:12,080
by gunfire outside of a courthouse in

5057
03:09:12,080 --> 03:09:14,319
Gwinet County, Georgia, where Flint was

5058
03:09:14,319 --> 03:09:16,080
scheduled to appear to fight obscenity

5059
03:09:16,080 --> 03:09:18,319
charges. Although both men survived the

5060
03:09:18,319 --> 03:09:20,080
attack, Flint was left partially

5061
03:09:20,080 --> 03:09:22,160
paralyzed and had difficulty speaking

5062
03:09:22,160 --> 03:09:25,439
for the rest of his life.

5063
03:09:25,439 --> 03:09:28,080
>> We'll be right back.

5064
03:09:28,080 --> 03:09:29,680
>> Hey, this Christmas party is getting a

5065
03:09:29,680 --> 03:09:31,120
little too quiet. I think it's time we

5066
03:09:31,120 --> 03:09:32,800
liven it up with my favorite Christmas

5067
03:09:32,800 --> 03:09:34,160
gift, Mr. Microphone.

5068
03:09:34,160 --> 03:09:34,880
>> Hey, what's that?

5069
03:09:34,880 --> 03:09:37,040
>> Well, you set the dial on your FM radio

5070
03:09:37,040 --> 03:09:39,760
and testing testing

5071
03:09:39,760 --> 03:09:41,600
the radio.

5072
03:09:41,600 --> 03:09:43,439
The perfect Christmas gift at Walgreens,

5073
03:09:43,439 --> 03:09:45,760
Wworth, Wulco, Osco Venture, Wee Bowls,

5074
03:09:45,760 --> 03:09:47,040
Montgomery Ward.

5075
03:09:47,040 --> 03:09:49,680
>> David Banner is believed to be dead and

5076
03:09:49,680 --> 03:09:51,600
he must let the world think that he is

5077
03:09:51,600 --> 03:09:54,000
dead until he can find a way to control

5078
03:09:54,000 --> 03:09:56,000
the raging spirit that dwells within

5079
03:09:56,000 --> 03:09:59,000
him.

5080
03:10:00,319 --> 03:10:03,439
Tragedy struck on March 22nd when famed

5081
03:10:03,439 --> 03:10:06,399
highwire performer Carl Wenda fell while

5082
03:10:06,399 --> 03:10:08,240
performing a televised tightroppe walk

5083
03:10:08,240 --> 03:10:10,479
between two towers of the Condado Plaza

5084
03:10:10,479 --> 03:10:12,880
Hotel in Puerto Rico. Wenda was the

5085
03:10:12,880 --> 03:10:14,399
founding member and patriarch of the

5086
03:10:14,399 --> 03:10:16,640
Flying Wendas, a family of daredevil

5087
03:10:16,640 --> 03:10:18,080
performers known for their thrilling

5088
03:10:18,080 --> 03:10:20,319
stunts which were usually done without

5089
03:10:20,319 --> 03:10:22,720
any safety nets. That was the case when

5090
03:10:22,720 --> 03:10:25,520
Melinda fatally plummeted 121 ft from

5091
03:10:25,520 --> 03:10:27,840
the Kandado Hotel, succumbing to his

5092
03:10:27,840 --> 03:10:31,120
injuries at age 73. Because bringing

5093
03:10:31,120 --> 03:10:33,200
happiness is the only thing that's

5094
03:10:33,200 --> 03:10:36,399
important to me. So don't be surprised

5095
03:10:36,399 --> 03:10:38,800
if I show up on your unhappy doorstep

5096
03:10:38,800 --> 03:10:40,720
someday. Better yet, be surprised cuz

5097
03:10:40,720 --> 03:10:43,760
I'm not doing this again.

5098
03:10:43,760 --> 03:10:45,680
>> Taking off antenna, stealing panty hose.

5099
03:10:45,680 --> 03:10:47,439
Who Who would do something like that?

5100
03:10:47,439 --> 03:10:49,520
>> Probably the notorious car antenna

5101
03:10:49,520 --> 03:10:51,840
pantyhose gang.

5102
03:10:51,840 --> 03:10:53,279
You try getting along without your car

5103
03:10:53,279 --> 03:10:53,760
radio.

5104
03:10:53,760 --> 03:10:55,040
>> Well, try getting along without your

5105
03:10:55,040 --> 03:10:57,760
pantyhose.

5106
03:10:57,760 --> 03:10:59,200
>> This is work, honey. I told you I'm

5107
03:10:59,200 --> 03:11:01,439
Ewing Oil's goodwill ambassador.

5108
03:11:01,439 --> 03:11:03,120
>> Got a whole satchel full of goodwill

5109
03:11:03,120 --> 03:11:03,920
there.

5110
03:11:03,920 --> 03:11:06,880
>> Yeah, daddy calls them bees. Booze,

5111
03:11:06,880 --> 03:11:09,760
broads, and booty. It's what keeps the

5112
03:11:09,760 --> 03:11:11,760
independent oilman independent. Moving

5113
03:11:11,760 --> 03:11:14,080
into April, influential astronomer and

5114
03:11:14,080 --> 03:11:16,399
writer Carl Sean won a Pulitzer Prize on

5115
03:11:16,399 --> 03:11:18,560
the 17th of April for his non-fiction

5116
03:11:18,560 --> 03:11:20,560
book, The Dragons of Eden, about the

5117
03:11:20,560 --> 03:11:22,880
evolution of human intelligence. Sean

5118
03:11:22,880 --> 03:11:24,560
would later use some of the same ideas

5119
03:11:24,560 --> 03:11:26,160
from his prize-winning book in his

5120
03:11:26,160 --> 03:11:28,640
popular miniseries Cosmos. The Dragons

5121
03:11:28,640 --> 03:11:30,319
of Eden would eventually get a sequel

5122
03:11:30,319 --> 03:11:33,359
when 24 years later, the follow-up book

5123
03:11:33,359 --> 03:11:35,040
Up from Dragons was published,

5124
03:11:35,040 --> 03:11:37,920
co-written by Sean's son, Dorion. Back

5125
03:11:37,920 --> 03:11:41,040
in 78, May saw the breakout film of an

5126
03:11:41,040 --> 03:11:43,520
unknown martial arts star named Jackie

5127
03:11:43,520 --> 03:11:46,160
Chan. Chan's action comedy, Snake in the

5128
03:11:46,160 --> 03:11:48,479
Eagle Shadow, was released on the first,

5129
03:11:48,479 --> 03:11:50,240
introducing audiences around the world

5130
03:11:50,240 --> 03:11:52,240
to his signature slapstick fighting

5131
03:11:52,240 --> 03:11:54,160
style for the first time. We've been

5132
03:11:54,160 --> 03:11:56,000
injuring ourselves and spinning ladders

5133
03:11:56,000 --> 03:11:58,640
ever since. The first ever spam email

5134
03:11:58,640 --> 03:12:01,200
was sent 2 days later on the 3. The

5135
03:12:01,200 --> 03:12:03,200
message was sent by Gary Thurk, a

5136
03:12:03,200 --> 03:12:04,960
marketer working for Digital Equipment

5137
03:12:04,960 --> 03:12:07,359
Corporation, who bombed the inboxes of

5138
03:12:07,359 --> 03:12:10,319
nearly 400 Arpanet users trying to get

5139
03:12:10,319 --> 03:12:11,840
them to come to some sweet sales

5140
03:12:11,840 --> 03:12:13,359
presentation for the company's line of

5141
03:12:13,359 --> 03:12:15,359
computers. And with that click of the

5142
03:12:15,359 --> 03:12:17,840
send button, Nigerian princes were given

5143
03:12:17,840 --> 03:12:20,319
their most formidable weapon. Later that

5144
03:12:20,319 --> 03:12:22,240
month, the phrase glass ceiling was

5145
03:12:22,240 --> 03:12:24,240
coined for the first time on the 24th by

5146
03:12:24,240 --> 03:12:26,000
a New York telephone company manager

5147
03:12:26,000 --> 03:12:28,399
named Marilyn Loden. Loen was speaking

5148
03:12:28,399 --> 03:12:30,319
on a panel at the 1978 Women's

5149
03:12:30,319 --> 03:12:32,319
Exposition in New York when she used the

5150
03:12:32,319 --> 03:12:34,160
phrase to describe the invisible barrier

5151
03:12:34,160 --> 03:12:35,840
preventing women from advancing as far

5152
03:12:35,840 --> 03:12:38,000
as men in their chosen careers.

5153
03:12:38,000 --> 03:12:40,160
>> Well, different work now. Let's get to

5154
03:12:40,160 --> 03:12:41,040
it.

5155
03:12:41,040 --> 03:12:43,120
>> Tonight, Haraldo Rivera reports on how

5156
03:12:43,120 --> 03:12:44,880
Greyhound racing dogs get their taste

5157
03:12:44,880 --> 03:12:47,040
for the chase. A grizzly sport, but it

5158
03:12:47,040 --> 03:12:48,640
has its fans.

5159
03:12:48,640 --> 03:12:50,640
>> Sandy.

5160
03:12:50,640 --> 03:12:53,520
Teddy, what are you doing here? I

5161
03:12:53,520 --> 03:12:54,560
>> I thought you were going back to

5162
03:12:54,560 --> 03:12:55,200
Australia.

5163
03:12:55,200 --> 03:12:57,439
>> We had to change plans.

5164
03:12:57,439 --> 03:13:00,600
I can't.

5165
03:13:00,880 --> 03:13:03,120
Well, that's cool, baby. Moving into

5166
03:13:03,120 --> 03:13:05,840
June, the very first Garfield comic

5167
03:13:05,840 --> 03:13:08,160
strip was published on the 19th, and the

5168
03:13:08,160 --> 03:13:10,000
cubicle walls of your unfunny co-workers

5169
03:13:10,000 --> 03:13:12,399
have never been the same since. Created

5170
03:13:12,399 --> 03:13:14,880
by cartoonist Jim Davis, The Daily

5171
03:13:14,880 --> 03:13:16,800
Adventures of a Sarcastic Cat and His

5172
03:13:16,800 --> 03:13:18,720
Dim-witted Owner quickly became one of

5173
03:13:18,720 --> 03:13:20,479
the most popular comic strips in

5174
03:13:20,479 --> 03:13:22,800
history. at one point appearing in over

5175
03:13:22,800 --> 03:13:24,960
2 and a half thousand newspapers,

5176
03:13:24,960 --> 03:13:27,279
multiple television specials, cartoon

5177
03:13:27,279 --> 03:13:29,760
series, and liveaction movies, and

5178
03:13:29,760 --> 03:13:32,000
generating nearly a billion dollars in

5179
03:13:32,000 --> 03:13:34,479
annual merchandising revenue. That is a

5180
03:13:34,479 --> 03:13:37,720
lot of lasagna.

5181
03:13:37,760 --> 03:13:40,070
>> We'll be right back.

5182
03:13:40,070 --> 03:13:43,120
[Music]

5183
03:13:43,120 --> 03:13:46,880
>> Zon, if you want a date, get in shape.

5184
03:13:46,880 --> 03:13:48,880
>> Shape? I'm solid steel.

5185
03:13:48,880 --> 03:13:53,120
>> Uh-uh. Shake shape. Zon shape.

5186
03:13:53,120 --> 03:13:56,479
>> Get clean. Get close. Get comfort. Get

5187
03:13:56,479 --> 03:13:58,880
your face in shape.

5188
03:13:58,880 --> 03:14:01,840
>> Click in Shik Super 2. The only twin

5189
03:14:01,840 --> 03:14:04,319
blades tefloncoated for incredibly

5190
03:14:04,319 --> 03:14:06,080
comfortable close shaves.

5191
03:14:06,080 --> 03:14:08,160
>> Great shave, dog.

5192
03:14:08,160 --> 03:14:10,239
>> That's shake. Shake.

5193
03:14:10,239 --> 03:14:12,720
>> That's super, too.

5194
03:14:12,720 --> 03:14:14,880
>> The first rainbow pride flag was used at

5195
03:14:14,880 --> 03:14:16,720
the gay and lesbian freedom day parade

5196
03:14:16,720 --> 03:14:19,279
in San Francisco. Created by a clothing

5197
03:14:19,279 --> 03:14:21,279
designer named Gilbert Baker as a new

5198
03:14:21,279 --> 03:14:23,760
symbol for the city's LGBT community,

5199
03:14:23,760 --> 03:14:25,920
the flag immediately resonated with the

5200
03:14:25,920 --> 03:14:28,319
parade goers and was adopted as an icon

5201
03:14:28,319 --> 03:14:31,880
of gay pride.

5202
03:14:37,920 --> 03:14:42,160
>> I'm a zit. Get it. Now, George Romero

5203
03:14:42,160 --> 03:14:44,479
brings us the most intensely shocking

5204
03:14:44,479 --> 03:14:48,000
motion picture experience for all times,

5205
03:14:48,000 --> 03:14:51,520
Dawn of the Dead. Moving into the fall,

5206
03:14:51,520 --> 03:14:53,760
the Who's Party Boy drummer Keith Moon

5207
03:14:53,760 --> 03:14:56,640
finally self-destructed on the 7th. Long

5208
03:14:56,640 --> 03:14:58,640
suffering from alcoholism, Moon had

5209
03:14:58,640 --> 03:15:00,560
moved into a new flat in London to try

5210
03:15:00,560 --> 03:15:02,000
and get sober with the help of a

5211
03:15:02,000 --> 03:15:03,680
prescription seditive used to treat

5212
03:15:03,680 --> 03:15:06,000
alcohol withdrawal. Moon's addictive

5213
03:15:06,000 --> 03:15:07,760
personality was no match for the

5214
03:15:07,760 --> 03:15:10,319
powerful medication and he odeed passing

5215
03:15:10,319 --> 03:15:13,680
away at the age of 32. 3 days later

5216
03:15:13,680 --> 03:15:16,080
Mario Andredy won his first Formula 1

5217
03:15:16,080 --> 03:15:18,160
world drivers championship coming in

5218
03:15:18,160 --> 03:15:20,720
ahead of Austrian driver Nikki Laua who

5219
03:15:20,720 --> 03:15:22,160
you may remember from an earlier

5220
03:15:22,160 --> 03:15:24,640
timeline episode. Andredy would go on to

5221
03:15:24,640 --> 03:15:26,319
become one of the most famous drivers in

5222
03:15:26,319 --> 03:15:28,000
the history of professional racing

5223
03:15:28,000 --> 03:15:29,920
having claimed victories in Formula 1,

5224
03:15:29,920 --> 03:15:32,800
NASCAR and Indie Car. He also had three

5225
03:15:32,800 --> 03:15:35,040
guest appearances on Home Improvement.

5226
03:15:35,040 --> 03:15:36,640
That's when you know you've really hit

5227
03:15:36,640 --> 03:15:39,279
the big time. The next day, the last

5228
03:15:39,279 --> 03:15:41,439
known victim of smallox succumb to the

5229
03:15:41,439 --> 03:15:43,279
disease, one of the deadliest

5230
03:15:43,279 --> 03:15:45,920
afflictions in human history. Medical

5231
03:15:45,920 --> 03:15:48,000
photographer Janet Parker, contracted

5232
03:15:48,000 --> 03:15:50,080
the malignant virus from the smallox

5233
03:15:50,080 --> 03:15:52,160
laboratory where she worked. The head of

5234
03:15:52,160 --> 03:15:54,560
the lab, Professor Henry Bedson, was so

5235
03:15:54,560 --> 03:15:56,160
distraught over Parker's infection that

5236
03:15:56,160 --> 03:15:57,840
he took his own life just a few days

5237
03:15:57,840 --> 03:16:00,319
before she passed away. The World Health

5238
03:16:00,319 --> 03:16:02,800
Organization officially declared smallox

5239
03:16:02,800 --> 03:16:04,800
eradicated in 1980.

5240
03:16:04,800 --> 03:16:06,399
>> Oh, no. No. It's just that they told me

5241
03:16:06,399 --> 03:16:08,160
I'd be starting work today as a driver.

5242
03:16:08,160 --> 03:16:09,279
Oh, here's my hack light.

5243
03:16:09,279 --> 03:16:10,479
>> You're a cab driver?

5244
03:16:10,479 --> 03:16:11,040
>> Uh-huh.

5245
03:16:11,040 --> 03:16:12,720
>> What do you mean busting my chops here?

5246
03:16:12,720 --> 03:16:13,920
Make them believe you're a regular

5247
03:16:13,920 --> 03:16:15,920
person.

5248
03:16:15,920 --> 03:16:18,160
>> Turning to music, the Grateful Dead

5249
03:16:18,160 --> 03:16:19,840
played three nights of concert at the

5250
03:16:19,840 --> 03:16:22,319
Giza Pyramid Complex in Cairo, Egypt,

5251
03:16:22,319 --> 03:16:24,479
beginning the night of September 14th.

5252
03:16:24,479 --> 03:16:26,239
The proceeds of the show were donated to

5253
03:16:26,239 --> 03:16:28,239
the Egyptian Department of Antiquities

5254
03:16:28,239 --> 03:16:30,239
and to the Faith and Hope Society, the

5255
03:16:30,239 --> 03:16:32,000
favorite charity of Egypt's then first

5256
03:16:32,000 --> 03:16:35,120
lady Jihan Sadat. Originally intended to

5257
03:16:35,120 --> 03:16:36,640
be recorded and released as a live

5258
03:16:36,640 --> 03:16:38,479
album, those plans were shelved for

5259
03:16:38,479 --> 03:16:40,720
various technical and logistical reasons

5260
03:16:40,720 --> 03:16:44,080
until the album was finally released 30

5261
03:16:44,080 --> 03:16:46,399
years later, almost to the day on

5262
03:16:46,399 --> 03:16:48,640
September 30th, 2008.

5263
03:16:48,640 --> 03:16:50,160
>> Hello.

5264
03:16:50,160 --> 03:16:51,680
Hello.

5265
03:16:51,680 --> 03:16:54,080
Anybody in there?

5266
03:16:54,080 --> 03:16:55,200
Little hatchling brothers, you must

5267
03:16:55,200 --> 03:16:56,560
revolt against your oppressors. You have

5268
03:16:56,560 --> 03:16:59,279
nothing to lose but your shells.

5269
03:16:59,279 --> 03:17:01,040
>> In the great tradition of these laugh

5270
03:17:01,040 --> 03:17:03,439
masters of the past come two guys who

5271
03:17:03,439 --> 03:17:05,590
are hysterically funny.

5272
03:17:05,590 --> 03:17:08,080
[Applause]

5273
03:17:08,080 --> 03:17:09,840
>> They're Chich and Chong.

5274
03:17:09,840 --> 03:17:12,239
>> In late September, Pope John Paul I

5275
03:17:12,239 --> 03:17:14,479
unexpectedly passed away on the 28th

5276
03:17:14,479 --> 03:17:17,279
after serving just 33 days. The

5277
03:17:17,279 --> 03:17:19,279
September Pope, as he came to be known,

5278
03:17:19,279 --> 03:17:21,040
relinquished the papacy after succumbing

5279
03:17:21,040 --> 03:17:24,000
to a sudden heart attack at age 65. He

5280
03:17:24,000 --> 03:17:26,399
was succeeded by Pope John Paul II. Hey,

5281
03:17:26,399 --> 03:17:28,239
that's chronological. Who was elected

5282
03:17:28,239 --> 03:17:31,200
just over 2 weeks later on October 16th,

5283
03:17:31,200 --> 03:17:33,040
John Paul II would go on to become the

5284
03:17:33,040 --> 03:17:34,640
second longest serving pope in modern

5285
03:17:34,640 --> 03:17:36,720
history, wearing the big pointy hat for

5286
03:17:36,720 --> 03:17:39,520
27 years until his death in 2005.

5287
03:17:39,520 --> 03:17:42,160
Heading into October, the Sex Pistol's

5288
03:17:42,160 --> 03:17:44,560
infamous basist, Sid Vicious, was

5289
03:17:44,560 --> 03:17:46,560
charged with the secondderee murder of

5290
03:17:46,560 --> 03:17:49,279
his girlfriend, Nancy Spongen. Spongen

5291
03:17:49,279 --> 03:17:51,040
had been found in the couple's room in

5292
03:17:51,040 --> 03:17:53,600
New York's Hotel Chelsea by staff the

5293
03:17:53,600 --> 03:17:55,439
previous day with a stab wound to her

5294
03:17:55,439 --> 03:17:58,319
abdomen. Vicious admitted to the attack,

5295
03:17:58,319 --> 03:18:00,239
but his highly intoxicated state,

5296
03:18:00,239 --> 03:18:01,840
combined with his differing accounts of

5297
03:18:01,840 --> 03:18:04,319
the event, have kept the exact details a

5298
03:18:04,319 --> 03:18:07,040
mystery to this day. Staying with music,

5299
03:18:07,040 --> 03:18:08,720
English rock band The Police played

5300
03:18:08,720 --> 03:18:11,040
their first US show at New York City's

5301
03:18:11,040 --> 03:18:14,479
CBGBs 8 Days Later. The show was part of

5302
03:18:14,479 --> 03:18:16,479
an American tour during which the then

5303
03:18:16,479 --> 03:18:18,720
unknown band drove themselves from city

5304
03:18:18,720 --> 03:18:21,600
to city in an econo line van. Wonder how

5305
03:18:21,600 --> 03:18:24,000
many red lights they ran.

5306
03:18:24,000 --> 03:18:25,680
>> Sir, what's your name?

5307
03:18:25,680 --> 03:18:28,000
>> My name is Dorothy.

5308
03:18:28,000 --> 03:18:30,720
>> Dorothy and Toto.

5309
03:18:30,720 --> 03:18:34,239
What intelligent names?

5310
03:18:34,239 --> 03:18:37,040
was the boogeyman.

5311
03:18:37,040 --> 03:18:40,290
>> As a matter of fact, it was

5312
03:18:40,290 --> 03:18:43,369
[Music]

5313
03:18:44,319 --> 03:18:46,080
>> kicking off November with some tough

5314
03:18:46,080 --> 03:18:48,800
love, the iconic documentary film Scared

5315
03:18:48,800 --> 03:18:50,720
Straight premiered on television on the

5316
03:18:50,720 --> 03:18:53,359
second. Directed by Arnold Shapiro, the

5317
03:18:53,359 --> 03:18:55,600
gritty film follows a group of juvenile

5318
03:18:55,600 --> 03:18:57,760
offenders as they interact with real

5319
03:18:57,760 --> 03:19:00,479
life convicts at New Jerseys Raw State

5320
03:19:00,479 --> 03:19:03,040
Prison. The inmates scream at, berate,

5321
03:19:03,040 --> 03:19:05,279
and otherwise terrify the teenagers in

5322
03:19:05,279 --> 03:19:07,279
an effort to scare them straight by

5323
03:19:07,279 --> 03:19:09,200
exposing them to the grueling realities

5324
03:19:09,200 --> 03:19:11,520
of life behind bars. The film was

5325
03:19:11,520 --> 03:19:13,840
notably aired uncensored, marking the

5326
03:19:13,840 --> 03:19:15,359
first time certain four-letter

5327
03:19:15,359 --> 03:19:17,760
expletives were ever uttered on American

5328
03:19:17,760 --> 03:19:21,160
network television.

5329
03:19:21,760 --> 03:19:25,720
>> We'll be right back.

5330
03:19:26,399 --> 03:19:28,479
We took everything that was wrong with

5331
03:19:28,479 --> 03:19:30,960
children's television and got rid of it.

5332
03:19:30,960 --> 03:19:32,800
We kept everything that was good about

5333
03:19:32,800 --> 03:19:36,800
it and made it better. The result is

5334
03:19:36,800 --> 03:19:39,439
Nickelodeon, the young people's

5335
03:19:39,439 --> 03:19:43,000
satellite network.

5336
03:19:43,120 --> 03:19:45,279
>> Did you just hear what I heard? Her kids

5337
03:19:45,279 --> 03:19:46,880
are in school in other countries and she

5338
03:19:46,880 --> 03:19:48,160
likes it that way.

5339
03:19:48,160 --> 03:19:50,800
>> Yeah. And we're in a lot of trouble.

5340
03:19:50,800 --> 03:19:53,840
What you talking about, Willis?

5341
03:19:53,840 --> 03:19:56,800
>> Washington DC elected Marian Barry Jr.

5342
03:19:56,800 --> 03:19:58,720
as the city's first black mayor on

5343
03:19:58,720 --> 03:20:01,359
November the 7th. Barry had been a civil

5344
03:20:01,359 --> 03:20:04,160
rights activist in the 1960s and had

5345
03:20:04,160 --> 03:20:06,160
served as the president of the Le Moine

5346
03:20:06,160 --> 03:20:09,279
Owens College chapter of the NAACP while

5347
03:20:09,279 --> 03:20:10,960
he was a student there. The

5348
03:20:10,960 --> 03:20:12,800
controversial politician would go on to

5349
03:20:12,800 --> 03:20:15,760
serve four non-consecutive terms as DC's

5350
03:20:15,760 --> 03:20:18,960
mayor. One day later, legendary slice of

5351
03:20:18,960 --> 03:20:21,359
life artist Norman Rockwell passed away

5352
03:20:21,359 --> 03:20:22,800
at his home in Stockbridge,

5353
03:20:22,800 --> 03:20:25,840
Massachusetts at age 84. Rockwell was

5354
03:20:25,840 --> 03:20:27,680
best known for the covers he painted for

5355
03:20:27,680 --> 03:20:29,439
the Saturday Evening Post, which

5356
03:20:29,439 --> 03:20:31,279
presented an idyllic view of life in

5357
03:20:31,279 --> 03:20:33,520
smalltown America. At the time of his

5358
03:20:33,520 --> 03:20:35,520
death, he had produced over 4,000

5359
03:20:35,520 --> 03:20:37,680
original works for magazines, movie

5360
03:20:37,680 --> 03:20:40,319
posters, advertisements, and books,

5361
03:20:40,319 --> 03:20:42,080
making him one of the most prolific

5362
03:20:42,080 --> 03:20:45,120
artists of the modern era. Controversial

5363
03:20:45,120 --> 03:20:47,439
cultural anthropologist Margaret me

5364
03:20:47,439 --> 03:20:51,040
passed away one week later at age 76. Me

5365
03:20:51,040 --> 03:20:53,040
rose to prominence with her books Coming

5366
03:20:53,040 --> 03:20:55,520
of Age in Samoa and Sex and Temperament

5367
03:20:55,520 --> 03:20:58,000
in three primate societies in which she

5368
03:20:58,000 --> 03:21:00,399
argued that culture rather than biology

5369
03:21:00,399 --> 03:21:02,319
had a profound effect on human

5370
03:21:02,319 --> 03:21:04,560
development and advocated for the

5371
03:21:04,560 --> 03:21:06,560
relaxing of rigid sexual norms and

5372
03:21:06,560 --> 03:21:08,960
gender roles in modern society. She also

5373
03:21:08,960 --> 03:21:10,800
served as an assistant curator at New

5374
03:21:10,800 --> 03:21:12,319
York's American Museum of Natural

5375
03:21:12,319 --> 03:21:14,560
History for over 50 years, which is

5376
03:21:14,560 --> 03:21:16,560
enough time to name all of the dinosaur

5377
03:21:16,560 --> 03:21:19,560
skeletons.

5378
03:21:20,800 --> 03:21:24,160
>> That's it. I'm turning back.

5379
03:21:24,160 --> 03:21:27,200
>> I know your family's waiting.

5380
03:21:27,200 --> 03:21:30,800
>> I know it's an important day.

5381
03:21:30,800 --> 03:21:33,600
3 days later, cult leader Jim Jones

5382
03:21:33,600 --> 03:21:35,920
directed and manipulated hundreds of his

5383
03:21:35,920 --> 03:21:37,840
followers to take their own lives at his

5384
03:21:37,840 --> 03:21:40,479
Jonestown Commune in Guyana on November

5385
03:21:40,479 --> 03:21:43,520
18th. Jones became paranoid after US

5386
03:21:43,520 --> 03:21:46,319
Congressman Leo Ryan visited the commune

5387
03:21:46,319 --> 03:21:48,720
to investigate allegations of abuse and

5388
03:21:48,720 --> 03:21:50,880
illegal activity. Jones ordered the

5389
03:21:50,880 --> 03:21:53,120
assassination of Ryan and his group who

5390
03:21:53,120 --> 03:21:54,800
were ambushed on an airirstrip as they

5391
03:21:54,800 --> 03:21:56,720
attempted to leave with some Jonestown

5392
03:21:56,720 --> 03:22:00,399
defectors. Altogether, 99 lives were

5393
03:22:00,399 --> 03:22:03,600
lost at Jonestown, including Ryan. San

5394
03:22:03,600 --> 03:22:06,160
Francisco was struck by tragedy 8 days

5395
03:22:06,160 --> 03:22:08,479
later when newly elected supervisor

5396
03:22:08,479 --> 03:22:11,200
Harvey Mil was assassinated alongside

5397
03:22:11,200 --> 03:22:13,439
Mayor George Moscone by disgruntled

5398
03:22:13,439 --> 03:22:16,080
former supervisor Dan White. White had

5399
03:22:16,080 --> 03:22:17,840
resigned from his position weeks earlier

5400
03:22:17,840 --> 03:22:20,160
in protest of the low salary and had

5401
03:22:20,160 --> 03:22:21,920
formed a rivalry with Milk over the

5402
03:22:21,920 --> 03:22:24,160
course of the year. White claimed he had

5403
03:22:24,160 --> 03:22:26,000
spiraled into a depression and wasn't

5404
03:22:26,000 --> 03:22:28,000
fully in control of his actions and was

5405
03:22:28,000 --> 03:22:30,080
ultimately convicted, serving just 5

5406
03:22:30,080 --> 03:22:32,000
years in prison before taking his own

5407
03:22:32,000 --> 03:22:34,160
life in 1985.

5408
03:22:34,160 --> 03:22:35,840
Milk's life would later be the subject

5409
03:22:35,840 --> 03:22:39,439
of an award-winning film 2008's Milk,

5410
03:22:39,439 --> 03:22:41,760
starring Shaun Penn in the title role.

5411
03:22:41,760 --> 03:22:43,920
One week later, Diane Feinstein was

5412
03:22:43,920 --> 03:22:46,000
named Mayor of San Francisco following

5413
03:22:46,000 --> 03:22:48,560
the slaying of Mayor George Moscone.

5414
03:22:48,560 --> 03:22:50,560
Feinstein had been serving as the

5415
03:22:50,560 --> 03:22:52,000
president of the city's board of

5416
03:22:52,000 --> 03:22:53,920
supervisors and had delivered the news

5417
03:22:53,920 --> 03:22:55,600
of Milk's demise to her shocked

5418
03:22:55,600 --> 03:22:56,560
constituents. You

5419
03:22:56,560 --> 03:22:57,920
>> remember the trees? Remember all the

5420
03:22:57,920 --> 03:22:59,120
different ways in the trees? Remember

5421
03:22:59,120 --> 03:23:02,640
that? You remember? Huh?

5422
03:23:02,640 --> 03:23:06,239
>> The mountains. You remember all that?

5423
03:23:06,239 --> 03:23:07,200
>> One shot.

5424
03:23:07,200 --> 03:23:10,240
>> One shot. One shot.

5425
03:23:10,240 --> 03:23:13,319
[Music]

5426
03:23:13,359 --> 03:23:16,479
>> The hell's that?

5427
03:23:16,479 --> 03:23:18,319
>> Easy, miss. I've got you.

5428
03:23:18,319 --> 03:23:22,399
>> You You've got me. Who's got you?

5429
03:23:22,399 --> 03:23:24,720
>> Nobody's favorite clown, John Wayne

5430
03:23:24,720 --> 03:23:27,439
Gayy, was arrested on December 21st

5431
03:23:27,439 --> 03:23:29,520
after confessing to the slaying of more

5432
03:23:29,520 --> 03:23:32,800
than 30 teenage boys and young men. Gayy

5433
03:23:32,800 --> 03:23:34,880
had been collecting victims for years.

5434
03:23:34,880 --> 03:23:36,319
Police discovered several sets of

5435
03:23:36,319 --> 03:23:37,920
remains buried in the crawl space

5436
03:23:37,920 --> 03:23:40,319
beneath his house. Gayy was ultimately

5437
03:23:40,319 --> 03:23:42,720
convicted of 33 counts of homicide, at

5438
03:23:42,720 --> 03:23:45,040
the time, the most ever attributed to a

5439
03:23:45,040 --> 03:23:47,680
single person. And so the sun set on

5440
03:23:47,680 --> 03:23:50,640
1978 with the cinematic debut of one of

5441
03:23:50,640 --> 03:23:52,800
America's greatest heroes and the arrest

5442
03:23:52,800 --> 03:23:56,080
of one of its worst villains. 1979 was

5443
03:23:56,080 --> 03:23:58,319
on deck with a hip new portable music

5444
03:23:58,319 --> 03:24:00,800
craze, the debut of two future NBA

5445
03:24:00,800 --> 03:24:02,960
legends and the arrival of the most

5446
03:24:02,960 --> 03:24:05,040
significant political figure in modern

5447
03:24:05,040 --> 03:24:08,080
American history. Yeah, old Rapen Ronnie

5448
03:24:08,080 --> 03:24:11,680
is on the way. But that's next year.

5449
03:24:11,680 --> 03:24:14,960
Coming soon, 1979.

5450
03:24:14,960 --> 03:24:18,160
The 1970s were drawing to a close, and

5451
03:24:18,160 --> 03:24:20,560
like many decades, it had been a mixed

5452
03:24:20,560 --> 03:24:22,800
bag. Although this time, the bag

5453
03:24:22,800 --> 03:24:26,720
probably had C3PO on it. But 1979 wasn't

5454
03:24:26,720 --> 03:24:29,040
about to go gently into that good night.

5455
03:24:29,040 --> 03:24:30,880
The year saw the release of several

5456
03:24:30,880 --> 03:24:33,279
classic movies, the last ride of a

5457
03:24:33,279 --> 03:24:35,840
Hollywood legend, and the debut of three

5458
03:24:35,840 --> 03:24:38,319
bonafide icons of modern professional

5459
03:24:38,319 --> 03:24:40,880
sports. It also saw heightened political

5460
03:24:40,880 --> 03:24:42,880
tensions, capping off the globally

5461
03:24:42,880 --> 03:24:45,359
tumultuous 70s with a significant Soviet

5462
03:24:45,359 --> 03:24:47,200
coup that would start toppling the

5463
03:24:47,200 --> 03:24:49,200
dominoes, ultimately leading to a

5464
03:24:49,200 --> 03:24:51,359
shocking September morning in New York

5465
03:24:51,359 --> 03:24:54,160
City. And above it all loom the spectre

5466
03:24:54,160 --> 03:24:57,120
of the impending 1980s, which began to

5467
03:24:57,120 --> 03:24:59,040
take the shape of a folksy presidential

5468
03:24:59,040 --> 03:25:01,279
candidate who liked to wear cowboy hats.

5469
03:25:01,279 --> 03:25:02,800
We're going to talk about the news,

5470
03:25:02,800 --> 03:25:04,720
culture, sports, and entertainment, and

5471
03:25:04,720 --> 03:25:08,479
all that was weird in the 70s. This is

5472
03:25:08,479 --> 03:25:11,479
timeline.

5473
03:25:12,950 --> 03:25:16,080
[Music]

5474
03:25:16,080 --> 03:25:17,920
Time to grab your Moon Raker laser and

5475
03:25:17,920 --> 03:25:20,239
jump the General Ely over 3M Island

5476
03:25:20,239 --> 03:25:24,080
because this episode is all about 1979.

5477
03:25:24,080 --> 03:25:25,920
Now get ready to find your rainbow

5478
03:25:25,920 --> 03:25:29,920
connection because this is 1979.

5479
03:25:29,920 --> 03:25:32,080
Kicking off the year, Hilton Hotel's

5480
03:25:32,080 --> 03:25:34,399
founder, Conrad Connie, if you watched

5481
03:25:34,399 --> 03:25:36,479
Mad Men. Hilton checked out of this

5482
03:25:36,479 --> 03:25:39,120
earthly plane on January 3rd. The man

5483
03:25:39,120 --> 03:25:40,960
responsible for the first international

5484
03:25:40,960 --> 03:25:43,359
hotel chain and for Paris Hilton's music

5485
03:25:43,359 --> 03:25:46,080
career passed away, checking out late at

5486
03:25:46,080 --> 03:25:49,439
age 91. Oof, he stuck around for a while

5487
03:25:49,439 --> 03:25:51,840
like a Hilton time share payment. 13

5488
03:25:51,840 --> 03:25:54,160
days later, the landmark nature series

5489
03:25:54,160 --> 03:25:57,520
Life on Earth premiered on BBC 1 January

5490
03:25:57,520 --> 03:25:59,760
16th. The ambitious 13 episode

5491
03:25:59,760 --> 03:26:02,080
documentary took 3 years to complete,

5492
03:26:02,080 --> 03:26:04,000
using hundreds of hours of the highest

5493
03:26:04,000 --> 03:26:05,760
quality footage available to chronicle

5494
03:26:05,760 --> 03:26:08,399
the history of life on the planet. Life

5495
03:26:08,399 --> 03:26:10,399
on Earth was such a success that it

5496
03:26:10,399 --> 03:26:12,560
turned presenter David Atenboroough into

5497
03:26:12,560 --> 03:26:15,120
a household name and spawned decades of

5498
03:26:15,120 --> 03:26:17,600
follow-up series under the life banner.

5499
03:26:17,600 --> 03:26:20,239
The first shot in the war of man versus

5500
03:26:20,239 --> 03:26:23,040
machines was fired nine days later when

5501
03:26:23,040 --> 03:26:25,200
the first documented case of a robot

5502
03:26:25,200 --> 03:26:27,120
taking out a human in the United States

5503
03:26:27,120 --> 03:26:29,600
occurred. 25-year-old factory worker

5504
03:26:29,600 --> 03:26:31,760
Robert Williams was struck in the head

5505
03:26:31,760 --> 03:26:34,000
by a robotic arm in a Ford motor plant

5506
03:26:34,000 --> 03:26:36,239
in Michigan. The accident was attributed

5507
03:26:36,239 --> 03:26:38,239
to a lack of adequate safety measures

5508
03:26:38,239 --> 03:26:40,399
and Williams's family was awarded $10

5509
03:26:40,399 --> 03:26:43,600
million in damages. Meanwhile, the robot

5510
03:26:43,600 --> 03:26:45,760
went right back to work as if nothing

5511
03:26:45,760 --> 03:26:47,760
happened. Must have been a robo

5512
03:26:47,760 --> 03:26:50,120
senator's kid.

5513
03:26:50,120 --> 03:26:51,470
[Music]

5514
03:26:51,470 --> 03:26:55,520
[Applause]

5515
03:26:55,520 --> 03:26:57,520
>> That's Bo and Luke Duke. And from the

5516
03:26:57,520 --> 03:26:58,720
way they're dooded up, they got

5517
03:26:58,720 --> 03:27:00,560
something cooking. And you know it ain't

5518
03:27:00,560 --> 03:27:04,840
girls cuz it's still daylight.

5519
03:27:04,960 --> 03:27:07,200
>> Famed American businessman and former

5520
03:27:07,200 --> 03:27:09,680
vice president Nelson Rockefeller passed

5521
03:27:09,680 --> 03:27:13,439
away on the 26th at age 70. Rumors began

5522
03:27:13,439 --> 03:27:15,120
swirling after it was revealed that

5523
03:27:15,120 --> 03:27:16,720
Rockefeller had collapsed in the

5524
03:27:16,720 --> 03:27:18,960
presence of a 25-year-old aid named

5525
03:27:18,960 --> 03:27:20,880
Megan Marshack, who had previously

5526
03:27:20,880 --> 03:27:22,960
worked for him in Washington, DC, and

5527
03:27:22,960 --> 03:27:24,720
for whom he had recently purchased a

5528
03:27:24,720 --> 03:27:27,279
Manhattan condo. Rockefeller. Oh, he

5529
03:27:27,279 --> 03:27:30,080
barely knew her. Allegedly. Moving into

5530
03:27:30,080 --> 03:27:33,040
February, Sex Pistols basist Sid Vicious

5531
03:27:33,040 --> 03:27:34,880
departed for the Great Dive Bar in the

5532
03:27:34,880 --> 03:27:37,520
Sky on the second. Vicious had recently

5533
03:27:37,520 --> 03:27:39,040
been arrested for the murder of his

5534
03:27:39,040 --> 03:27:41,359
girlfriend Nancy Spongen and had just

5535
03:27:41,359 --> 03:27:42,720
been released from prison the day

5536
03:27:42,720 --> 03:27:44,560
before. The punk rocker bought a bunch

5537
03:27:44,560 --> 03:27:47,200
of H to celebrate and ODed that night.

5538
03:27:47,200 --> 03:27:48,800
The story of his brief life would

5539
03:27:48,800 --> 03:27:50,880
eventually be adapted into a movie. The

5540
03:27:50,880 --> 03:27:54,000
1986 film Sid and Nancy starring Gary

5541
03:27:54,000 --> 03:27:55,920
Oldman and Khloe Webb as the doomed

5542
03:27:55,920 --> 03:27:58,560
couple. Back to 79 and turning into

5543
03:27:58,560 --> 03:28:00,479
music, The Village People had their

5544
03:28:00,479 --> 03:28:03,760
biggest hit when their song YMCA peaked

5545
03:28:03,760 --> 03:28:05,439
at number two on the Billboard music

5546
03:28:05,439 --> 03:28:08,399
charts on February 3rd. The now iconic

5547
03:28:08,399 --> 03:28:10,880
song was the only single off their album

5548
03:28:10,880 --> 03:28:12,960
Cruising released in September of the

5549
03:28:12,960 --> 03:28:14,800
previous year. It would be a good year

5550
03:28:14,800 --> 03:28:16,640
for the Village People. They would have

5551
03:28:16,640 --> 03:28:18,479
another song climb the charts a few

5552
03:28:18,479 --> 03:28:20,720
months later when In the Navy reached

5553
03:28:20,720 --> 03:28:23,760
number three on May 19th. The sun set a

5554
03:28:23,760 --> 03:28:26,399
nefarious Nazi scientist Yseph Mangala

5555
03:28:26,399 --> 03:28:29,279
on the 7th. Mangala's unscrupulous human

5556
03:28:29,279 --> 03:28:31,040
experiments conducted during World War

5557
03:28:31,040 --> 03:28:33,920
II earned him the nickname the angel of

5558
03:28:33,920 --> 03:28:36,080
death. When a guy has a more intense

5559
03:28:36,080 --> 03:28:38,720
nickname than Hitler, you know he's bad

5560
03:28:38,720 --> 03:28:42,479
news. Mangala fled Germany in 1949 and

5561
03:28:42,479 --> 03:28:44,080
spent the rest of his life hiding in

5562
03:28:44,080 --> 03:28:46,080
South America where he suffered a stroke

5563
03:28:46,080 --> 03:28:48,399
while swimming and drowned in Brazil at

5564
03:28:48,399 --> 03:28:51,600
age 67. One day later, the nuclear power

5565
03:28:51,600 --> 03:28:54,239
facility at 3-M Island in Pennsylvania

5566
03:28:54,239 --> 03:28:56,640
experienced a partial meltdown.

5567
03:28:56,640 --> 03:28:58,720
Mechanical failures, design flaws, and

5568
03:28:58,720 --> 03:29:00,880
operator errors all contributed to the

5569
03:29:00,880 --> 03:29:02,640
accident, which remains the most

5570
03:29:02,640 --> 03:29:04,720
significant nuclear incident in American

5571
03:29:04,720 --> 03:29:06,720
history. Although no one was injured,

5572
03:29:06,720 --> 03:29:08,479
and the meltdown was contained before

5573
03:29:08,479 --> 03:29:10,479
any serious long-asting harm took

5574
03:29:10,479 --> 03:29:12,239
effect, the incident was the beginning

5575
03:29:12,239 --> 03:29:14,160
of the end of nuclear power plant

5576
03:29:14,160 --> 03:29:16,239
construction in the States. Cleanup of

5577
03:29:16,239 --> 03:29:18,239
the reactor would ultimately last 14

5578
03:29:18,239 --> 03:29:21,680
years and cost $1 billion. Pakistani

5579
03:29:21,680 --> 03:29:24,880
President Zulfikar Alib was executed at

5580
03:29:24,880 --> 03:29:26,640
the beginning of the month being hung in

5581
03:29:26,640 --> 03:29:28,800
secrecy for the crime of conspiring to

5582
03:29:28,800 --> 03:29:31,120
assassinate a political rival on the

5583
03:29:31,120 --> 03:29:33,760
4th. BH had been deposed in a coup by

5584
03:29:33,760 --> 03:29:36,319
General Muhammad Ziah Hak 18 months

5585
03:29:36,319 --> 03:29:38,399
earlier. Although he was a controversial

5586
03:29:38,399 --> 03:29:40,319
figure who had served as both president

5587
03:29:40,319 --> 03:29:42,399
and prime minister of Pakistan during a

5588
03:29:42,399 --> 03:29:44,560
period of extreme unrest, the charges

5589
03:29:44,560 --> 03:29:46,720
against him are generally agreed to have

5590
03:29:46,720 --> 03:29:49,040
been bogus. Zeia continued to serve as

5591
03:29:49,040 --> 03:29:51,120
Pakistan's de facto president until he

5592
03:29:51,120 --> 03:29:53,840
perished in a plane crash in 1988.

5593
03:29:53,840 --> 03:29:55,840
President Jimmy Carter had an infamous

5594
03:29:55,840 --> 03:29:58,319
run-in with a rabbit on April 20th. The

5595
03:29:58,319 --> 03:30:00,160
rabbit in question was being pursued by

5596
03:30:00,160 --> 03:30:02,399
dogs and swam out into the lake where

5597
03:30:02,399 --> 03:30:04,080
Carter was fishing and tried to jump

5598
03:30:04,080 --> 03:30:06,239
into his boat. The president shued the

5599
03:30:06,239 --> 03:30:08,880
wild beast away with his ore, creating a

5600
03:30:08,880 --> 03:30:10,720
memorable image that became a popular

5601
03:30:10,720 --> 03:30:12,720
news story that hurt his re-election

5602
03:30:12,720 --> 03:30:15,200
campaign. The state of Georgia selected

5603
03:30:15,200 --> 03:30:17,040
Ray Charles version of the classic

5604
03:30:17,040 --> 03:30:19,279
Georgia on my mind to be the official

5605
03:30:19,279 --> 03:30:21,600
state song on the 24th. Originally

5606
03:30:21,600 --> 03:30:23,200
co-written and recorded by Hogi

5607
03:30:23,200 --> 03:30:25,760
Carmichael in 1930, Charles, the native

5608
03:30:25,760 --> 03:30:27,600
son of Georgia, recorded a version of

5609
03:30:27,600 --> 03:30:30,239
the song for his 1960 album, The Genius

5610
03:30:30,239 --> 03:30:32,160
Hits the Road. It became a number one

5611
03:30:32,160 --> 03:30:34,000
Billboard hit as well as the signature

5612
03:30:34,000 --> 03:30:36,239
tune of Charles's career. Margaret

5613
03:30:36,239 --> 03:30:38,640
Thatcher became the UK's first female

5614
03:30:38,640 --> 03:30:40,399
prime minister when she was elected on

5615
03:30:40,399 --> 03:30:42,399
the 4th of May. The leader of Great

5616
03:30:42,399 --> 03:30:44,399
Britain's Conservative Party, Thatcher

5617
03:30:44,399 --> 03:30:46,160
was a controversial figure, earning the

5618
03:30:46,160 --> 03:30:48,560
nickname the Iron Lady due to her

5619
03:30:48,560 --> 03:30:50,800
staunch politics. She wound up serving

5620
03:30:50,800 --> 03:30:53,520
three terms, leaving office in 1990,

5621
03:30:53,520 --> 03:30:55,279
making her the longest serving British

5622
03:30:55,279 --> 03:30:57,520
Prime Minister of the 20th century.

5623
03:30:57,520 --> 03:31:00,080
Elton John became the first western pop

5624
03:31:00,080 --> 03:31:02,319
star to tour the Soviet Union when he

5625
03:31:02,319 --> 03:31:04,160
kicked off seven days worth of shows on

5626
03:31:04,160 --> 03:31:06,560
the 20th of May. The Rocket Man played

5627
03:31:06,560 --> 03:31:09,120
eight shows in Lennengrad in Moscow. His

5628
03:31:09,120 --> 03:31:11,040
final show of the tour was broadcast

5629
03:31:11,040 --> 03:31:13,040
live via satellite across Europe by the

5630
03:31:13,040 --> 03:31:15,680
BBC and footage from the tour was used

5631
03:31:15,680 --> 03:31:18,000
in a television documentary titled To

5632
03:31:18,000 --> 03:31:20,640
Russia with Elton. Sticking with music,

5633
03:31:20,640 --> 03:31:22,560
the Charlie Daniels band released their

5634
03:31:22,560 --> 03:31:24,560
signature hit, The Devil Went Down to

5635
03:31:24,560 --> 03:31:27,279
Georgia on the 21st. a blazing three and

5636
03:31:27,279 --> 03:31:29,040
a half minute southern rock tune about a

5637
03:31:29,040 --> 03:31:30,800
skilled fiddle player making a deal with

5638
03:31:30,800 --> 03:31:33,200
a devil. The song was certified platinum

5639
03:31:33,200 --> 03:31:35,439
and has remained a pop culture mainstay

5640
03:31:35,439 --> 03:31:37,840
ever since and makes us all kind of want

5641
03:31:37,840 --> 03:31:40,560
to fiddle. We go now to San Francisco

5642
03:31:40,560 --> 03:31:42,720
where on the 21st of May the White

5643
03:31:42,720 --> 03:31:44,960
Knight riots erupted. The riots were the

5644
03:31:44,960 --> 03:31:46,560
result of the conviction of former city

5645
03:31:46,560 --> 03:31:48,640
supervisor Dan White, who you may

5646
03:31:48,640 --> 03:31:51,040
remember was responsible for the 1978

5647
03:31:51,040 --> 03:31:53,040
assassination of San Francisco Mayor

5648
03:31:53,040 --> 03:31:55,600
George Moscone, and city supervisor and

5649
03:31:55,600 --> 03:31:58,319
first open gay politician Harvey Mil.

5650
03:31:58,319 --> 03:32:00,479
Protesters were outraged by White's

5651
03:32:00,479 --> 03:32:02,080
conviction of the lesser charge of

5652
03:32:02,080 --> 03:32:04,319
voluntary manslaughter. The riots

5653
03:32:04,319 --> 03:32:06,399
started as a peaceful march that

5654
03:32:06,399 --> 03:32:08,720
escalated while outside of city hall and

5655
03:32:08,720 --> 03:32:13,040
later at a bar called the Elephant Walk.

5656
03:32:13,040 --> 03:32:17,040
We'll be right back.

5657
03:32:17,040 --> 03:32:20,000
>> Wow. Macaroni and cheese. Mine's

5658
03:32:20,000 --> 03:32:20,880
spaghetti.

5659
03:32:20,880 --> 03:32:23,600
>> Beef noodles. My wife's a magician.

5660
03:32:23,600 --> 03:32:25,600
>> The trick is new mug lunch from Betty

5661
03:32:25,600 --> 03:32:27,840
Crocker. Three tasty hot dishes you make

5662
03:32:27,840 --> 03:32:30,080
in a mug. One helping at a time. Just

5663
03:32:30,080 --> 03:32:32,720
add boiling water. Wait 4 minutes. Stir

5664
03:32:32,720 --> 03:32:33,359
and eat.

5665
03:32:33,359 --> 03:32:38,000
>> Muga Lunch. New from Betty Crocker.

5666
03:32:38,000 --> 03:32:42,960
>> Move out. Move out. Get out.

5667
03:32:43,330 --> 03:32:46,370
[Music]

5668
03:32:47,040 --> 03:32:49,279
Funk Band Chic released their chart

5669
03:32:49,279 --> 03:32:51,840
topping single Good Times on the fourth.

5670
03:32:51,840 --> 03:32:53,520
The song hit number one on the Billboard

5671
03:32:53,520 --> 03:32:55,920
Hot 100 and has gone on to become one of

5672
03:32:55,920 --> 03:32:58,000
the most influential pieces of modern

5673
03:32:58,000 --> 03:32:59,840
music, having been sampled more than

5674
03:32:59,840 --> 03:33:02,560
almost any other song in music history,

5675
03:33:02,560 --> 03:33:04,880
most notably by the Sugar Hill Gang in

5676
03:33:04,880 --> 03:33:07,920
their 1979 hit Rappers Delight. John

5677
03:33:07,920 --> 03:33:10,399
Wayne saddled up and hit the old dusty

5678
03:33:10,399 --> 03:33:13,120
trail for the last time on June 11th.

5679
03:33:13,120 --> 03:33:15,200
One of the most iconic movie stars in

5680
03:33:15,200 --> 03:33:17,439
history, Wayne built a legendary career

5681
03:33:17,439 --> 03:33:19,680
playing hard-edged western heroes like

5682
03:33:19,680 --> 03:33:22,080
the grizzled Marshall Rooster Cogburn in

5683
03:33:22,080 --> 03:33:26,319
1969's True Grit. The Duke was 72. Rock

5684
03:33:26,319 --> 03:33:28,479
legend Chuck Barry pleaded guilty to tax

5685
03:33:28,479 --> 03:33:31,120
evasion on June 12th. The father of rock

5686
03:33:31,120 --> 03:33:33,120
and roll admitted to having dodged

5687
03:33:33,120 --> 03:33:36,239
payment of over $100,000 in income tax

5688
03:33:36,239 --> 03:33:38,880
back in 1973 and was sentenced to four

5689
03:33:38,880 --> 03:33:40,720
months in prison. Barry had just

5690
03:33:40,720 --> 03:33:42,160
performed at the White House at

5691
03:33:42,160 --> 03:33:44,239
President Carter's request 11 days

5692
03:33:44,239 --> 03:33:46,880
earlier. Go Johnny, go and pay your

5693
03:33:46,880 --> 03:33:49,520
taxes. In a landmark decision, the Sue

5694
03:33:49,520 --> 03:33:52,000
Nation received $100 million in

5695
03:33:52,000 --> 03:33:53,600
compensation for Black Hill, South

5696
03:33:53,600 --> 03:33:56,399
Dakota on June the 13th. The land was

5697
03:33:56,399 --> 03:33:58,239
taken from the Sue by the American

5698
03:33:58,239 --> 03:34:00,800
government back in 1877 and is currently

5699
03:34:00,800 --> 03:34:02,399
the site of Mount Rushmore National

5700
03:34:02,399 --> 03:34:04,160
Memorial. Today, the settlement has

5701
03:34:04,160 --> 03:34:06,399
grown to over 1 billion dollars, but the

5702
03:34:06,399 --> 03:34:09,120
Sue Nation has never claimed it.

5703
03:34:09,120 --> 03:34:10,160
>> I'm Stler.

5704
03:34:10,160 --> 03:34:12,319
>> I'm Waldorf. We're here to heckle a

5705
03:34:12,319 --> 03:34:13,439
Muppet movie.

5706
03:34:13,439 --> 03:34:14,880
>> Gentlemen, that's straight ahead.

5707
03:34:14,880 --> 03:34:16,640
Private screening room D.

5708
03:34:16,640 --> 03:34:17,760
>> Private screening?

5709
03:34:17,760 --> 03:34:19,200
>> Yeah, they're afraid to show it in

5710
03:34:19,200 --> 03:34:21,520
public.

5711
03:34:21,520 --> 03:34:22,960
You appear with the tedious

5712
03:34:22,960 --> 03:34:24,640
inevitability

5713
03:34:24,640 --> 03:34:26,880
of an unloved season.

5714
03:34:26,880 --> 03:34:28,800
>> I didn't think there were any seasons in

5715
03:34:28,800 --> 03:34:29,680
space.

5716
03:34:29,680 --> 03:34:32,319
>> As far as you're concerned, only winter.

5717
03:34:32,319 --> 03:34:34,800
>> The greatest of all time, Muhammad Ali,

5718
03:34:34,800 --> 03:34:37,040
announced his third retirement on June

5719
03:34:37,040 --> 03:34:39,840
27th. Ali insisted this time he was done

5720
03:34:39,840 --> 03:34:41,760
with professional fighting for good,

5721
03:34:41,760 --> 03:34:43,680
despite his earlier retirements that had

5722
03:34:43,680 --> 03:34:45,439
turned out to be less than permanent.

5723
03:34:45,439 --> 03:34:47,359
The 37-year-old heavyweight champ

5724
03:34:47,359 --> 03:34:49,439
abdicated his world title in a letter to

5725
03:34:49,439 --> 03:34:51,760
the World Boxing Association, but this

5726
03:34:51,760 --> 03:34:53,359
time would turn out to be less than

5727
03:34:53,359 --> 03:34:55,279
permanent as well. He would come out of

5728
03:34:55,279 --> 03:34:57,600
retirement one more time to challenge

5729
03:34:57,600 --> 03:34:59,600
Larry Holmes for the title on October

5730
03:34:59,600 --> 03:35:02,960
2nd, 1980. Dubbed the last harrah, a

5731
03:35:02,960 --> 03:35:05,600
visibly passed his prime Ali lost in a

5732
03:35:05,600 --> 03:35:08,319
10th round TKO after his corner threw in

5733
03:35:08,319 --> 03:35:10,239
the towel.

5734
03:35:10,239 --> 03:35:12,560
The beginning of July saw the debut of

5735
03:35:12,560 --> 03:35:15,520
Sony's Walkman. The brainchild of a Sony

5736
03:35:15,520 --> 03:35:17,040
executive who just wanted a more

5737
03:35:17,040 --> 03:35:18,800
portable way to listen to music while on

5738
03:35:18,800 --> 03:35:21,279
the go, the Walkman started off slowly,

5739
03:35:21,279 --> 03:35:23,279
but by the end of the summer was turning

5740
03:35:23,279 --> 03:35:26,880
into a genuine phenomenon. The Walkman

5741
03:35:26,880 --> 03:35:28,399
would go on to become one of the most

5742
03:35:28,399 --> 03:35:30,080
successful products in the company's

5743
03:35:30,080 --> 03:35:32,319
history and one of the most influential

5744
03:35:32,319 --> 03:35:35,279
consumer electronics ever produced. The

5745
03:35:35,279 --> 03:35:37,200
infamous disco demolition night went

5746
03:35:37,200 --> 03:35:40,000
down on the 12th of July. Baseball fans

5747
03:35:40,000 --> 03:35:42,160
were lured to the Chicago White Sox's

5748
03:35:42,160 --> 03:35:45,120
Kamiski Park with the promise of 98 cent

5749
03:35:45,120 --> 03:35:47,040
ticket prices if they brought along a

5750
03:35:47,040 --> 03:35:49,040
disco record to be destroyed on the

5751
03:35:49,040 --> 03:35:51,359
field in between the two games. The

5752
03:35:51,359 --> 03:35:53,120
event was spearheaded by local shock

5753
03:35:53,120 --> 03:35:56,399
jock and avid disco hater Steve Dah.

5754
03:35:56,399 --> 03:35:58,239
When Dah took the field to dramatically

5755
03:35:58,239 --> 03:36:00,239
detonate the disco records, all hell

5756
03:36:00,239 --> 03:36:02,319
broke loose, resulting in a riot that

5757
03:36:02,319 --> 03:36:04,160
saw thousands of fans storm the field

5758
03:36:04,160 --> 03:36:06,720
and trash the place. Needless to say,

5759
03:36:06,720 --> 03:36:10,399
the promotion was not repeated.

5760
03:36:10,399 --> 03:36:13,399
>> Jonathan,

5761
03:36:13,439 --> 03:36:17,200
>> Max, what are you doing in that outfit?

5762
03:36:17,200 --> 03:36:19,760
>> Sorry, I didn't want to scare you.

5763
03:36:19,760 --> 03:36:22,319
>> Vocal tennis stars John McEnroe and

5764
03:36:22,319 --> 03:36:25,600
Ilian Estasi faced off in an infamous US

5765
03:36:25,600 --> 03:36:28,560
Open match on August 30th. The match

5766
03:36:28,560 --> 03:36:30,479
erupted into a memorable display of

5767
03:36:30,479 --> 03:36:33,680
decidedly unsportsmanlike conduct, which

5768
03:36:33,680 --> 03:36:35,600
wasn't much of a surprise considering

5769
03:36:35,600 --> 03:36:37,920
the two competitors were nicknamed Super

5770
03:36:37,920 --> 03:36:40,800
Brat and Nasty, respectively. At one

5771
03:36:40,800 --> 03:36:42,800
point, Nastasi, who was losing badly,

5772
03:36:42,800 --> 03:36:44,720
refused to resume the match, stirring

5773
03:36:44,720 --> 03:36:47,680
the crowd up into a near riot. The chaos

5774
03:36:47,680 --> 03:36:49,680
continued to escalate until Nastasi

5775
03:36:49,680 --> 03:36:51,760
finally had the chair referee replaced,

5776
03:36:51,760 --> 03:36:54,080
and the score reset to what it had been

5777
03:36:54,080 --> 03:36:55,680
before he'd received a penalty for

5778
03:36:55,680 --> 03:37:00,620
delaying the match. Nastasi still lost.

5779
03:37:00,620 --> 03:37:06,660
[Music]

5780
03:37:08,720 --> 03:37:10,960
>> British band The Police released their

5781
03:37:10,960 --> 03:37:13,120
first number one single, Message in a

5782
03:37:13,120 --> 03:37:15,680
Bottle, on the 29th. The track became

5783
03:37:15,680 --> 03:37:17,600
one of the band's signature hits,

5784
03:37:17,600 --> 03:37:19,120
climbing to the top of the Billboard

5785
03:37:19,120 --> 03:37:21,680
charts in the UK. Message in a bottle

5786
03:37:21,680 --> 03:37:23,680
remains one of the police's best known

5787
03:37:23,680 --> 03:37:26,000
songs and according to interviews

5788
03:37:26,000 --> 03:37:27,359
conducted over the years since its

5789
03:37:27,359 --> 03:37:28,960
release, one of the man's personal

5790
03:37:28,960 --> 03:37:31,680
favorites. The newly elected Pope John

5791
03:37:31,680 --> 03:37:33,840
Paul II became the first pope to visit

5792
03:37:33,840 --> 03:37:37,680
Ireland on the 29th, like ever. It was

5793
03:37:37,680 --> 03:37:41,200
kind of a big deal. An estimated 2.7

5794
03:37:41,200 --> 03:37:42,960
million people greeted the Pope over the

5795
03:37:42,960 --> 03:37:45,040
course of his 3-day visit, making it a

5796
03:37:45,040 --> 03:37:46,640
major public event and one of the most

5797
03:37:46,640 --> 03:37:48,479
significant in the history of modern

5798
03:37:48,479 --> 03:37:50,800
Catholicism. Among other things, the

5799
03:37:50,800 --> 03:37:52,399
Pope addressed the rising political

5800
03:37:52,399 --> 03:37:54,160
violence in Northern Ireland as the

5801
03:37:54,160 --> 03:37:56,479
troubles raged on, urging his followers

5802
03:37:56,479 --> 03:37:58,560
to reject brutality and remember the

5803
03:37:58,560 --> 03:38:00,960
teachings of the church.

5804
03:38:00,960 --> 03:38:02,800
Introducing Bo Derek.

5805
03:38:02,800 --> 03:38:06,760
>> Did you ever do a tour of Valero

5806
03:38:06,960 --> 03:38:10,239
>> in Blake Edwards 10?

5807
03:38:10,239 --> 03:38:12,720
On October 11th, the Nobel Prize in

5808
03:38:12,720 --> 03:38:15,040
Physiology or Medicine was awarded to

5809
03:38:15,040 --> 03:38:17,279
Alan Cormarmac and Godfrey Houndsfield

5810
03:38:17,279 --> 03:38:19,520
for their work in developing computerass

5811
03:38:19,520 --> 03:38:21,920
assisted temography, better known as the

5812
03:38:21,920 --> 03:38:24,479
CAT scan. Yeah, they definitely deserve

5813
03:38:24,479 --> 03:38:26,640
to win that one. The X-ray imaging

5814
03:38:26,640 --> 03:38:28,399
technique is easily one of the most

5815
03:38:28,399 --> 03:38:30,160
significant technological achievements

5816
03:38:30,160 --> 03:38:32,800
in the history of modern medicine. Wayne

5817
03:38:32,800 --> 03:38:34,880
Gretzky scored his first goal in the

5818
03:38:34,880 --> 03:38:37,520
National Hockey League on October 14th.

5819
03:38:37,520 --> 03:38:39,680
The Great One had previously played for

5820
03:38:39,680 --> 03:38:42,080
Canada's World Hockey Association.

5821
03:38:42,080 --> 03:38:44,560
During his inaugural NHL season, he went

5822
03:38:44,560 --> 03:38:46,640
on to tie for the most goals scored by a

5823
03:38:46,640 --> 03:38:48,239
single player and would win the Heart

5824
03:38:48,239 --> 03:38:50,000
Memorial Trophy as the league's most

5825
03:38:50,000 --> 03:38:52,160
valuable player, an award he would claim

5826
03:38:52,160 --> 03:38:54,880
seven more times during his career. Not

5827
03:38:54,880 --> 03:38:57,600
to be outdone by those cat scan guys,

5828
03:38:57,600 --> 03:38:59,600
Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel

5829
03:38:59,600 --> 03:39:02,399
Peace Prize on October 17th. The famous

5830
03:39:02,399 --> 03:39:04,080
Catholic nun and founder of the

5831
03:39:04,080 --> 03:39:06,239
missionaries of charity dedicated her

5832
03:39:06,239 --> 03:39:08,160
life to charity and hospice care

5833
03:39:08,160 --> 03:39:09,840
specifically for patients afflicted with

5834
03:39:09,840 --> 03:39:13,600
tuberculosis, leprosy, and HIV and AIDS.

5835
03:39:13,600 --> 03:39:15,200
Although some consider her a

5836
03:39:15,200 --> 03:39:17,120
controversial figure, Mother Teresa

5837
03:39:17,120 --> 03:39:18,800
would eventually be canonized by the

5838
03:39:18,800 --> 03:39:20,720
Catholic Church, making her official

5839
03:39:20,720 --> 03:39:23,760
title St. Teresa of Kolkata. President

5840
03:39:23,760 --> 03:39:26,239
Carter signed legislation creating the

5841
03:39:26,239 --> 03:39:28,720
Department of Education on the 17th of

5842
03:39:28,720 --> 03:39:31,120
October. The creation of the department

5843
03:39:31,120 --> 03:39:32,800
had been one of Carter's campaign

5844
03:39:32,800 --> 03:39:35,279
promises, establishing an entity to

5845
03:39:35,279 --> 03:39:37,439
determine federal funding policies for

5846
03:39:37,439 --> 03:39:39,439
American public schools, as well as

5847
03:39:39,439 --> 03:39:41,279
research educational issues and collect

5848
03:39:41,279 --> 03:39:42,800
information and statistics about

5849
03:39:42,800 --> 03:39:45,040
American schooling. South Korean

5850
03:39:45,040 --> 03:39:47,600
President Pak Chongi was taken out on

5851
03:39:47,600 --> 03:39:50,239
the 26th. The former general had served

5852
03:39:50,239 --> 03:39:51,920
as the president of the Republic of

5853
03:39:51,920 --> 03:39:54,479
Korea for nearly 20 years after taking

5854
03:39:54,479 --> 03:39:57,040
office in 1963 following a military

5855
03:39:57,040 --> 03:39:59,680
coup. not to those going around. But his

5856
03:39:59,680 --> 03:40:01,840
regime was oppressive and authoritarian,

5857
03:40:01,840 --> 03:40:03,840
and his ticket was finally punched by

5858
03:40:03,840 --> 03:40:06,560
his friend Kim Ju, the head of the

5859
03:40:06,560 --> 03:40:08,960
Korean Central Intelligence Agency, who

5860
03:40:08,960 --> 03:40:11,120
shot Pac and several of Pac's bodyguards

5861
03:40:11,120 --> 03:40:14,239
during a banquet dinner. Birmingham,

5862
03:40:14,239 --> 03:40:16,399
Alabama, elected its first black mayor

5863
03:40:16,399 --> 03:40:20,000
on October 30th. Richard Arrington Jr.,

5864
03:40:20,000 --> 03:40:21,600
a former city council member and

5865
03:40:21,600 --> 03:40:23,520
university professor with a doctorate in

5866
03:40:23,520 --> 03:40:26,000
zoology, took office after a runoff

5867
03:40:26,000 --> 03:40:28,399
election. He wound up being elected to a

5868
03:40:28,399 --> 03:40:30,479
total of five terms, serving as the

5869
03:40:30,479 --> 03:40:33,200
city's mayor for the next 20 years. The

5870
03:40:33,200 --> 03:40:35,520
owners of the iconic disco nightclub

5871
03:40:35,520 --> 03:40:38,960
Studio 54 pleaded guilty to income tax

5872
03:40:38,960 --> 03:40:41,600
evasion on November the second. Studio

5873
03:40:41,600 --> 03:40:44,239
54's reputation for debauchery, rampant

5874
03:40:44,239 --> 03:40:46,640
drug use, and celebrity clientele made

5875
03:40:46,640 --> 03:40:50,000
it a symbol for 1970s excess. But the

5876
03:40:50,000 --> 03:40:52,319
party was over when its owners, Steven

5877
03:40:52,319 --> 03:40:55,279
Rubel and Ian Shrager, were convicted.

5878
03:40:55,279 --> 03:40:57,439
Mirrors and rolledup dollar bills would

5879
03:40:57,439 --> 03:41:00,640
never be the same.

5880
03:41:00,640 --> 03:41:04,600
>> We'll be right back.

5881
03:41:05,200 --> 03:41:07,439
>> It's okay. You can have it.

5882
03:41:07,439 --> 03:41:08,479
>> No. No.

5883
03:41:08,479 --> 03:41:12,520
>> Really? You can have it.

5884
03:41:12,560 --> 03:41:15,560
>> Okay.

5885
03:41:18,640 --> 03:41:22,239
>> Makes me feel good.

5886
03:41:22,239 --> 03:41:25,120
Makes me feel nice around. That's a

5887
03:41:25,120 --> 03:41:29,680
great thing. And I like to see the whole

5888
03:41:29,680 --> 03:41:32,960
world smiling with me

5889
03:41:32,960 --> 03:41:34,640
as

5890
03:41:34,640 --> 03:41:35,680
a clown.

5891
03:41:35,680 --> 03:41:40,359
>> Thanks, Joe. Smile.

5892
03:41:40,800 --> 03:41:43,359
>> We go to Thran where Iranian student

5893
03:41:43,359 --> 03:41:45,520
demonstrators seize control of the US

5894
03:41:45,520 --> 03:41:47,920
embassy on the 4th of November.

5895
03:41:47,920 --> 03:41:49,520
Revolutionary group members were

5896
03:41:49,520 --> 03:41:52,399
followers of Ayatollah Ruola Kmeni, a

5897
03:41:52,399 --> 03:41:55,200
devout anti-American cleric. The group

5898
03:41:55,200 --> 03:41:57,680
held more than 60 Americans hostage for

5899
03:41:57,680 --> 03:42:00,560
the next 444 days and didn't release

5900
03:42:00,560 --> 03:42:02,479
them until just after Ronald Reagan's

5901
03:42:02,479 --> 03:42:05,120
1981 inaugural address in what was

5902
03:42:05,120 --> 03:42:07,520
interpreted as a big old FU to Jimmy

5903
03:42:07,520 --> 03:42:09,200
Carter, who had allowed the deposed

5904
03:42:09,200 --> 03:42:11,120
former Sha of Iran to come to America

5905
03:42:11,120 --> 03:42:13,840
for cancer treatment. Ayatollah Kmeni,

5906
03:42:13,840 --> 03:42:16,319
who famously dubbed the US the great

5907
03:42:16,319 --> 03:42:18,080
Satan, would spend much of the next

5908
03:42:18,080 --> 03:42:20,640
decade as the supreme leader of Iran.

5909
03:42:20,640 --> 03:42:22,640
>> Who could it be? Who could it be? I just

5910
03:42:22,640 --> 03:42:26,560
can't imagine who. Could it be

5911
03:42:26,560 --> 03:42:28,720
Satan?

5912
03:42:28,720 --> 03:42:31,359
>> North American Air Defense Command, or

5913
03:42:31,359 --> 03:42:33,760
NORAD if you're nasty, issued a false

5914
03:42:33,760 --> 03:42:36,080
alarm on the 9th of November that nearly

5915
03:42:36,080 --> 03:42:38,800
triggered nuclear war. NORAD's missile

5916
03:42:38,800 --> 03:42:40,640
warning system designed to alert the

5917
03:42:40,640 --> 03:42:42,880
American government if any ICBMs were

5918
03:42:42,880 --> 03:42:45,120
launched by enemy nations falsely

5919
03:42:45,120 --> 03:42:47,520
reported to the Pentagon, Strategic Air

5920
03:42:47,520 --> 03:42:50,319
Command, and others that 1400 Soviet

5921
03:42:50,319 --> 03:42:52,800
missiles were on their way to the United

5922
03:42:52,800 --> 03:42:55,359
States. The mixup occurred when a

5923
03:42:55,359 --> 03:42:57,359
technician ran a test program but forgot

5924
03:42:57,359 --> 03:42:59,840
to update the system to reflect this.

5925
03:42:59,840 --> 03:43:03,920
That is a pretty big error. 3 days

5926
03:43:03,920 --> 03:43:05,760
later, President Carter announced the

5927
03:43:05,760 --> 03:43:07,840
halt to the importation of that oh so

5928
03:43:07,840 --> 03:43:10,560
gooey and delicious petroleum from Iran,

5929
03:43:10,560 --> 03:43:12,319
citing a potential threat to national

5930
03:43:12,319 --> 03:43:15,040
security. The move was a response to the

5931
03:43:15,040 --> 03:43:17,120
ongoing hostage crisis at the American

5932
03:43:17,120 --> 03:43:19,199
embassy in Thran, and it effectively

5933
03:43:19,199 --> 03:43:20,960
ended the cooperative relationship

5934
03:43:20,960 --> 03:43:23,520
between the two nations. Smelling blood

5935
03:43:23,520 --> 03:43:25,680
in the water, Ronald Reagan announced

5936
03:43:25,680 --> 03:43:27,760
his candidacy for president the next

5937
03:43:27,760 --> 03:43:30,399
day. Reagan, a former actor who had

5938
03:43:30,399 --> 03:43:32,239
previously served two terms as the

5939
03:43:32,239 --> 03:43:33,760
governor of California, had

5940
03:43:33,760 --> 03:43:35,840
unsuccessfully run for president back in

5941
03:43:35,840 --> 03:43:38,640
1976, ultimately losing the Republican

5942
03:43:38,640 --> 03:43:40,800
nomination to the then sitting President

5943
03:43:40,800 --> 03:43:43,359
Gerald Ford. Reagan's chances were

5944
03:43:43,359 --> 03:43:46,000
looking much stronger now, particularly

5945
03:43:46,000 --> 03:43:48,640
as the ongoing Iranian hostage crisis

5946
03:43:48,640 --> 03:43:50,640
continued to erode President Carter's

5947
03:43:50,640 --> 03:43:52,800
credibility as an effective leader.

5948
03:43:52,800 --> 03:43:55,840
American Airlines Flight 444 was forced

5949
03:43:55,840 --> 03:43:57,840
to make an emergency landing on November

5950
03:43:57,840 --> 03:44:00,319
15th when a package sent by the Uni

5951
03:44:00,319 --> 03:44:02,479
Bomber exploded in the plane's cargo

5952
03:44:02,479 --> 03:44:04,880
hold mid-flight. Although no one was

5953
03:44:04,880 --> 03:44:07,040
fatally injured, 12 passengers had to be

5954
03:44:07,040 --> 03:44:09,680
treated for smoke inhalation. It was the

5955
03:44:09,680 --> 03:44:11,359
third attack made by the infamous

5956
03:44:11,359 --> 03:44:13,040
terrorist who would eventually be

5957
03:44:13,040 --> 03:44:15,199
identified as Theodore Kazinski, a

5958
03:44:15,199 --> 03:44:17,120
former mathematics professor turned

5959
03:44:17,120 --> 03:44:19,760
anarchist. Kazinski had detonated two

5960
03:44:19,760 --> 03:44:21,520
previous packages at Northwestern

5961
03:44:21,520 --> 03:44:24,000
University, earning him the FBI case

5962
03:44:24,000 --> 03:44:26,880
identifier, Unibomb University and

5963
03:44:26,880 --> 03:44:30,479
Airline Bomber. Oh, so that's where it

5964
03:44:30,479 --> 03:44:32,320
comes from.

5965
03:44:32,320 --> 03:44:40,479
[Music]

5966
03:44:40,479 --> 03:44:42,960
The first artificial blood transfusion

5967
03:44:42,960 --> 03:44:45,040
in the United States was administered at

5968
03:44:45,040 --> 03:44:46,960
the University of Minnesota hospital on

5969
03:44:46,960 --> 03:44:49,840
the 20th. The patient, a 67-year-old

5970
03:44:49,840 --> 03:44:51,920
Jehovah's Witness, had refused a

5971
03:44:51,920 --> 03:44:53,840
traditional transfusion because it was

5972
03:44:53,840 --> 03:44:56,239
against his religion. The man received a

5973
03:44:56,239 --> 03:44:58,560
total of six pints of a blood substitute

5974
03:44:58,560 --> 03:45:01,359
called fluosol, which has the ability to

5975
03:45:01,359 --> 03:45:03,680
carry and dissolve oxygen just like

5976
03:45:03,680 --> 03:45:06,640
normal blood. On November 24th, a

5977
03:45:06,640 --> 03:45:08,880
damning report by a government watchdog

5978
03:45:08,880 --> 03:45:11,760
agency revealed that US troops serving

5979
03:45:11,760 --> 03:45:14,319
in the Vietnam War were indeed exposed

5980
03:45:14,319 --> 03:45:16,960
to Agent Orange, contrary to what the

5981
03:45:16,960 --> 03:45:18,560
Defense Department had previously

5982
03:45:18,560 --> 03:45:21,439
claimed. The General Accounting Office,

5983
03:45:21,439 --> 03:45:22,800
now known as the Government

5984
03:45:22,800 --> 03:45:24,960
Accountability Office, found that

5985
03:45:24,960 --> 03:45:26,800
thousands of Marines had been exposed to

5986
03:45:26,800 --> 03:45:28,880
the deadly herbicide, either by entering

5987
03:45:28,880 --> 03:45:30,880
affected combat zones or being within

5988
03:45:30,880 --> 03:45:32,560
one mile of combat zones that were

5989
03:45:32,560 --> 03:45:35,199
doused with a chemical. Agent orange had

5990
03:45:35,199 --> 03:45:37,040
been deployed as a defoliate to clear

5991
03:45:37,040 --> 03:45:39,040
forests and crops. But the toxic

5992
03:45:39,040 --> 03:45:40,720
chemicals were found to cause dramatic

5993
03:45:40,720 --> 03:45:42,960
health problems in humans, including

5994
03:45:42,960 --> 03:45:45,040
multiple types of cancer and serious

5995
03:45:45,040 --> 03:45:48,319
birth defects. Arguably the most iconic

5996
03:45:48,319 --> 03:45:51,199
NFL broadcasting duo ever took the mic

5997
03:45:51,199 --> 03:45:53,840
for the first time on November 25th when

5998
03:45:53,840 --> 03:45:56,000
John Madden and Pat Summerall called the

5999
03:45:56,000 --> 03:45:58,160
Minnesota Vikings Tampa Bay Buccaneers

6000
03:45:58,160 --> 03:46:01,120
game on CBS. Summerall played straight

6001
03:46:01,120 --> 03:46:03,520
man to the larger than-l life Madden.

6002
03:46:03,520 --> 03:46:06,640
The partnership lasted an astonishing 22

6003
03:46:06,640 --> 03:46:09,279
years, during which time NFL fans were

6004
03:46:09,279 --> 03:46:12,160
introduced to boom, the turducken, a

6005
03:46:12,160 --> 03:46:14,560
true artist of the teleustrator, and of

6006
03:46:14,560 --> 03:46:18,000
course, Madden football, EA Sports. It's

6007
03:46:18,000 --> 03:46:20,479
in the game. Heading into the final

6008
03:46:20,479 --> 03:46:23,760
month of the final year of the 1970s and

6009
03:46:23,760 --> 03:46:26,399
much like the '7s, what began as fun

6010
03:46:26,399 --> 03:46:28,880
ended with tragedy as 11 people were

6011
03:46:28,880 --> 03:46:31,840
fatally trampled at a concert by The Who

6012
03:46:31,840 --> 03:46:33,680
outside the Riverfront Coliseum in

6013
03:46:33,680 --> 03:46:36,239
Cincinnati, Ohio. Eager fans crushed

6014
03:46:36,239 --> 03:46:38,000
through the entrance shortly after the

6015
03:46:38,000 --> 03:46:40,560
gates opened. The frenzy pace was caused

6016
03:46:40,560 --> 03:46:42,479
by the seating, which was mostly first

6017
03:46:42,479 --> 03:46:44,640
come, first serve. The band was not

6018
03:46:44,640 --> 03:46:46,880
informed of the tragedy until after the

6019
03:46:46,880 --> 03:46:48,640
performance because it was feared that

6020
03:46:48,640 --> 03:46:50,800
the unruly crowd would riot if the

6021
03:46:50,800 --> 03:46:52,800
concert was cancelled. We are aboard a

6022
03:46:52,800 --> 03:46:54,960
huge starship called the Enterprise.

6023
03:46:54,960 --> 03:46:56,800
This is the return of Captain Kirk.

6024
03:46:56,800 --> 03:46:58,479
>> An alien object of unbelievable

6025
03:46:58,479 --> 03:47:00,319
destructive power is less than 3 days

6026
03:47:00,319 --> 03:47:03,880
away from this planet.

6027
03:47:04,479 --> 03:47:07,680
>> He hates these cans.

6028
03:47:07,680 --> 03:47:10,000
Stay away from the cans.

6029
03:47:10,000 --> 03:47:12,080
>> Okay, here's your question. Which trivia

6030
03:47:12,080 --> 03:47:14,160
board game was invented by two Canadian

6031
03:47:14,160 --> 03:47:16,880
journalists on December 15th? Give up.

6032
03:47:16,880 --> 03:47:19,120
It was Chris Haney and Scott Abbott who

6033
03:47:19,120 --> 03:47:20,960
invented Trivial Pursuit that night

6034
03:47:20,960 --> 03:47:22,720
while trying to devise a Scrabble

6035
03:47:22,720 --> 03:47:25,279
variant and sharing a few beers. Today,

6036
03:47:25,279 --> 03:47:26,960
it is among the most popular board

6037
03:47:26,960 --> 03:47:29,680
games, having sold over 100 million

6038
03:47:29,680 --> 03:47:31,439
copies and releasing several themed

6039
03:47:31,439 --> 03:47:33,600
spin-offs, including a Harry Potter

6040
03:47:33,600 --> 03:47:35,920
edition. You're a quizzer, Harry.

6041
03:47:35,920 --> 03:47:38,479
>> That I'm capable of taking care of him.

6042
03:47:38,479 --> 03:47:41,359
>> What do you mean? I want my son.

6043
03:47:41,359 --> 03:47:42,960
>> You can't have him.

6044
03:47:42,960 --> 03:47:45,359
>> Two weeks later, Afghanistan's president

6045
03:47:45,359 --> 03:47:48,399
Hafazula Amin was taken out in a Soviet

6046
03:47:48,399 --> 03:47:51,199
coup that went down on December 27th.

6047
03:47:51,199 --> 03:47:53,120
Amin had overthrown the previous

6048
03:47:53,120 --> 03:47:55,840
president near Muhammad Taraki just 4

6049
03:47:55,840 --> 03:47:58,640
months earlier. Am's strict nationalist

6050
03:47:58,640 --> 03:48:00,640
views along with his pursuit of

6051
03:48:00,640 --> 03:48:02,720
favorable relationships with both the

6052
03:48:02,720 --> 03:48:05,279
United States and Pakistan did not sit

6053
03:48:05,279 --> 03:48:07,520
well with the Soviet Union. So Russian

6054
03:48:07,520 --> 03:48:09,359
forces invaded just before the end of

6055
03:48:09,359 --> 03:48:11,439
the decade to rub a mean out and install

6056
03:48:11,439 --> 03:48:13,840
a pro-Russia president in his place,

6057
03:48:13,840 --> 03:48:16,319
Barbara Carmel. The coup kicked off the

6058
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Soviet Afghan war in which several

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insurgent groups collectively known as

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the Mujahedin fought against Soviet

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occupation. One significant figure in

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the Mujahedin was Osama bin Laden. And

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so the 1970s, the decade of boogying

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down, jumping buses, rationing gas,

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exiting the Vietnam War, resigning the

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presidency, and so very much more, came

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to a close. Undeniably one of the most

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influential periods of modern history.

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The 1970s shaped America and the rest of

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the world in ways that we're still

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feeling the effects of to this day. The

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1980s were now blazing into view with

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Regonomics, Pastel Detectives, and the

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end of the Cold War, ready to ride into

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the danger zone in a timetraveling

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Delorean. But that's next time. So, what

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do you think? What was the most

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significant event of the 1970s? Let us

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know in the comments below. And while

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you're at it, check out some of these

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other groovy timeline videos.

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