Week of January 8, 1959
Gen. Charles de Gaulle , under the Arc de Triomphe, is
installed as the new French President and the first
President of the new 5 th Republic. He succeeds Rene
Coty.
President Eisenhower agrees to meet with Soviet Dep.
Premier Anastas Mikoyan, giving Russia an opportunity to
make a new high-level move in the East-West dispute
over Berlin.
Secretary of State Dulles describes as brutal and stupid
Russia’s latest plan for a settlement of the German question.
White and Negro passengers continue to observe traditional separate seating
arrangements the day after a federal judge said that bus and trolley segregation
laws in Atlanta are invalid. But Negro leaders advised members of their race to
remain quiet until notified when to begin helping to desegregate the busses and
trolleys.
The United States formally extends diplomatic recognition to the new
revolutionary government of Cuba.
More Cuba - The mutilated bodes of 160 political prisoners are found in a
common grave on the outskirts of the city of San Cristobal. They were political
prisoners from the Batista regime.
Revolutionary authorities announce the execution of 15 officers of the armed
forces of former dictator Batista.
Breaks silence - Gen Batista breaks an 8-day silence. In
a statement issued through former Foreign Minister Dr.
Gonzalo Gueil, the ex-dictator of Cuba made clear he had
resigned unwillingly - because the armed forces chiefs
forced him to do so. Batista continued, saying he resigned
to spare the Cuban people further bloodshed and
suffering.
Pro Bowl - East & West all-star game as the East wins
2821. Frank Gifford was the main offensive cog in
Week of January 8, 1959
sparking the East to an upset victory - the first eastern triumph in three years.
Gifford completed three out of four throws for 75 years and one touchdown.
Entertainment news -
Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans have adopted Debbie - a 6-year-old Korean
orphan, to be “twin’ to their adopted American Indian daughter, Dodie, also 6.
Actor George Raft says he doesn’t know if his “George Raft’s Casino Capi” in
Havana will continue. Raft saved the place from a Cuban mob during rioting
there last New Year’s Day.
More Cuba - asked about eh adventures of actor Errol
Flynn in Cuba, rebel leader Fidel Castro told an
interviewer - “He was in the fighting zone as a kind of a
war reporter and didn’t participate in any actions. I only
saw him two or three times.” Flynn is now back in the. The
actor said he helped Fidel Castro win the revolution in
Cuba by keeping up the rebels’ morale.
Music news -
In a New York Post interview - Singer Pat Boone (24) says he was a
teen shoplifter and a beer and cigarette addict at an early age. “I was
about 16 when four or five of us guys did our shoplifting. Each of us took
a downtown store in Nashville at Christmas time. It was a game - like
cops and robbers. We did it for excitement, but we did it.”
Television news -
NBC-TV debuts a new music show aimed a lot at
teens. “ The Music Shop ” is emceed by Buddy
Bergman, who arranged for the likes of Gogi
Grant, Sammy Davis Jr. and others.
Tuesday night television -
CBS - Douglas Edwards news, Burns and Allen,
Invisible Man, To Tell the Truth, Arthur Godfrey
Show, Red Skelton, Garry Moore Show
NBC - Huntley-Brinkley report, Dragnet, George
Gobel, George Burns Show, Bob Cummings
Show, The Californians, Mike Hammer, Jack Paar
ABC - Cheyenne, Wyatt Earp, the Rifleman, The
naked City, Mystery Playhouse, News-John Daly
Week of January 8, 1959
The Rifleman - Lucas almost causes a national incident when he gives a
maimed Confederate vet a job.
The Californians - A saloon owner holds the key to a blackmail plot which
Marshal Wayne tries to unlock.
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