Video of the Month: May 2014

Released on this date in 1971.

Rock on!

A 40-Year Memory: Jumping Into ????

November 24- During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again (as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history).

A 40-Year Memory: Heavy Music

November 8 – Led Zeppelin releases their Fourth Studio album "Led Zeppelin IV" which goes on to sell 23,000,000 copies.

Side one
No.	Title
1.	"Black Dog"
2.	"Rock and Roll"
3.	"The Battle of Evermore"
4.	"Stairway to Heaven"

Side two
No.	Title
5.	"Misty Mountain Hop"
6.	"Four Sticks"
7.	"Going to California"
8.	"When the Levee Breaks"

A 40-Year Memory: Riots Behind Walls

September 9 (– September 13) – Attica Prison riots: – A revolt breaks out at the maximum-security prison in Attica, New York. In the end, state police and the United States National Guard storm the facility; 42 are killed, 10 of them hostages.

A 40-Year Memory: Pops. R.I.P.

July 6 - jazz giant Louis Armstrong passes away from a heart attack at the age of 69.

A 40-Year Memory: Another Music Dies

July 3 - Jim Morrison is found dead in a bath tub in Paris, France aged 27.

A 40-Year Memory: A Victory for Freedom

June 30- New York Times Co. v. United States: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Pentagon Papers may be published, rejecting government injunctions as unconstitutional prior restraint.

A 40-Year Memory: When News Was Also News

June 13- Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.

A 40-Year Memory: Against a War

(Note: I missed this yesterday. I must be getting old. I never even thought about it until today.)

May 3- Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.

I could tell you a story or two.. but I don't think I will today. Maybe someday I can bring it back. Sleeping in my car, listening to the Beach Boys (I think) and then waking up to the riot troops.

I left quickly.

Some radical I was.

A 40-Year Memory: A Performance for the Ages

April 15 - 43rd Academy Awards held.

Best Picture: Patton
Actor: George C. Scott (refused) - Patton
Actress: Glenda Jackson - Women in Love
Supporting Actor: John Mills - Ryan's Daughter
Supporting Actress: Helen Hayes - Airport

A 40-Year Memory: Justice in Baseball

February 9 - Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.