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The first edition of We Interrupt This Broadcast details, in chronological order, 38 notable events from the 20th century. Each event is chronicled in the book in words and pictures, and each has a corresponding audio track on one of the CDs containing narration by Bill Kurtis and snippets from network radio and television newscasts.
Darryl Francis Zanuck (/ ˈ z æ n ə k /; September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.
Caen, a major objective, was still in German hands at the end of D-Day and would not be completely captured until 21 July. [201] The Germans had ordered French civilians other than those deemed essential to the war effort to leave potential combat zones in Normandy. [202] Civilian casualties on D-Day and D+1 are estimated at 3,000. [203]
The Longest Day is a 1962 American epic historical war drama film based on Cornelius Ryan's 1959 non-fiction book of the same name [3] about the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6, 1944. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck for 20th Century Fox , and is directed by Ken Annakin (British and French exteriors), Andrew Marton (American ...
Toggle 20th-century subsection. 2.1 1900s–1950s. 2.2 1960s–1970s. 2.3 1980s. 2.4 1990s. 3 21st-century. ... This is not necessarily a list of historical quotes ...
An American Airlines D-Day Honor Flight that returned Saturday from France took 68 veterans back to Normandy for the anniversary. The youngest person in that cohort was 98, the oldest was 107.
Over 80 years later, Dec. 7, 1941 is a date that still lives in infamy. The attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II and left an indelible scar on the American psyche ...
Washington, D.C., United States 35 mm The photograph depicts Martin Luther King Jr. waving to supporters during the March on Washington, where he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, considered the most famous American oration of the twentieth century. [57] [s 4]