Sirhan Trial, February 15, 1969
February 16, 2009 | 12:00
pm
 A Navy inquiry into the Pueblo incident, Gabby Hayes dies, a landslide closes the Pomona Freeway and the State Board of Education decides that a school is racially imbalanced if there's a 15% difference from the racial makeup of youngsters in the surrounding neighborhood. |
George 'Gabby' Hayes had a short lived TV show that ran fifteen minutes and was sponsored by the breakfast cereal that was 'shot from guns'. (Great for tyro cereal killers.)
Another one-of-a-kind character actor who was 'old when he was young'.
Mel Brooks tried to satirize him in 'Blazing Saddles', but the actor was miscast.
Posted by: Arye Michael Bender | February 16, 2009 at 12:59 PM
What was this summary page, something like the Week in Review? My Times reading was limited to the sports section back in 69. This sure seems like a good method of one-stop shopping, complete with a news quiz!
Posted by: Keith Thursby | February 16, 2009 at 02:23 PM
This was from the News in Review section, which appeared on Sundays in Opinion.
Posted by: Larry Harnisch | February 16, 2009 at 06:16 PM