Angela Lansbury died. I remember when Murder She Wrote would follow 60 Minutes. As a kid, I couldn’t think of anything else that could have been more old and boring than those two shows back-to-back. Both signaled the end of the weekend.
You just don’t see football facemasks with a middle vertical bar in the center between the eyes anymore. I never understood how anyone could wear those things without getting cross-eyed or distracted.
In 1955, a devout Mormon set out on an archaeological expedition to prove the claims in the Book of Mormon. After 15 years, he found nearly every claim in the Book of Mormon was incorrect, and the papyrus Joseph Smith claimed was written by Abraham, was actually just a page taken out of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. He wrote about all this and put it in a book, here’s a summary.
Richard Nixon’s Secret Visit With Coretta Scott King – Nixon came in part to avoid attending the funeral, but he also brought a check-later lost-for her children’s education, according to a family friend finally telling the story.
