Congress, at President Ford's request, extended price controls on petroleum for fifty days.
I reported the Rocky Horror Picture Show as debuting yesterday, but apparently it was today. A cult classic today, it's theater run was not a success.
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President Ford sent a letter of thanks to disabled former Marine and Vietnam War veteran Oliver Sipple, who had stopped Sara Jane Moore's assassination attempt earlier in the week. Earlier in the week Sipple, who was living and working in San Francisco, had been outed as a homosexual by San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen who had received tips from homosexual activists Reverend Ray Broshears and Harvey Milk.
Milk knew Sipple and claimed to be a friend of his, but neither man had his permission to reveal his homosexuality and Sipple, who had been badly wounded in Vietnam, had never told his family. As a result, his family disowned him for a time and the stress of the situation was something he never really recovered from. He descended into alcohol and depression and killed himself in 1989.
Milk has come down as a hero, and even briefly had a ship named after him, which was renamed this year. But outing Sipple was a lousy thing to do.
I managed to miss the incident that Sipple is associated with, which was the September 22, 1975 assassination attempt by Sar Jane Moore. Sipple's quick reactions foiled the attempt, combined with the fact that Moore had purchased the handgun she used only that morning, after one she was familiar with was confiscated by the police the prior day.
Three Days of the Condor was released on this day in 1975.
This is an excellent Cold War thriller based on an underground movement in the US that's operating a shadowy independent mission. Robert Redford, who passed away yesterday, plays the lead character. The plot of the film involved Redford's character being a CIA analysts who reads books and steps out during the day, only to find his entire section murdered when he returns. He flees and is pursued by what turns out to be rogue elements of the CIA. Every actors portrayal in the movie is excellent, but the most intriguing character is a European assassin played by Max von Sydow.
Following the Vietnam War, the public was learning a lot about the CIA and frankly the FBI for the first time, all of which made the movie's plot seem credible. Frankly, back where we now are, it seems credible once again.
Oddly enough, the Church Committee revealed that the CIA had a gun designed to shoot toxic pellets to induce a heart attack just prior to this.
The cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show was also released on this day.
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U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater claimed that the Vietnam War "would have been over in a month" had he been elected President in 1964.
Seems doubtful.
Goldwater was the most right wing truly conservative Republican candidate to have ever been nominated, far more conservative than Ronald Reagan, and a true conservative, unlike the current occupant of the Oval Office.
A South Vietnamese pilot, Nguyễn Thành Trung, dropped bombs on the Presidential Place and then defected.
This is an event that I can recall occuring.
He want on to serve in the North Vietnamese air force and then worked as a commercial pilot for Vietnam Airlines.
South Vietnamese Major General Nguyễn Văn Hiếu was found shot dead in his command post.at the Biên Hòa airbase,
The Godfather Part II won an Academy Award for best picture, the first sequel to do so.
Frank Robinson became the first black manager in Major League. More on Robinson:
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The 9th NVA Division attacked again at Chơn Thành Camp, apparently trying to retrieve disabled tanks, but was repulsed again by ARVN defenders.
Kissinger spoke to the press.
A Henry Kissinger Press Conference – March 26, 1975 – Past Daily Reference Room
Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Saud, the Crown Prince and the younger half-brother of King Faisal, was crowned as the new King of Saudi Arabia.
Clela Rorex, the County Clerk for Boulder County, Colorado. issued a marriage license to Dave McCord and Dave Zamora who had consulted with the county's District Attorney who decided that there was nothing in Colorado's law that prohibited same sex marriage.
It was the first same sex marriage license issued in the US.
On April 24, Colorado State Attorney General Joyce Murdoch invalidated the license, as well as five others issued by Rorex.
Jaws premiered in an advance screening.
The Biological Weapons Convention banning the production or use of biologcial weapons, entered into force by its own terms.
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