Breaking News From Dallas, Texas

Today marks the 48th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was taking on a trip through Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. He had arrived at Love Field that morning and was heading to the Dallas Trade Mart to give a speech when shots rang out.

These are the breaking news audio/video from various radio and television stations as the news broke.

Jay Watson, a reporter for WFAA-TV (Channel 8) in Dallas, Texas. Jay ran from Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas directly to the WFAA studios after the shots were fired.



WCCO Radio of Minneapolis, Minnesota:



From CBS News (during an episode of As The World Turns):





WLW Radio of Cincinnati, Ohio:



ABC Radio:



ABC-TV:



NBC-TV:

Samia Gamal, 1950

Samia Gamal (Arabic: سامية جمال‎), born as Zaynab Ibrahim Mahfuz), (1924 - December 1, 1994) was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress. In 1949, Egypt's King Farouk proclaimed Samia Gamal "The National Dancer of Egypt", which brought US attention to the dancer.

In 1950, Samia came to the US and was photographed by Gjon Mili and theses are the pictures from that shoot.

See many more photos and a few videos of Samia Gamal after the jump.

Pac-Man Fever

This morning I woke up with this strange song in my head:



It's not that strange of a song, I guess. The strange part is that I had not heard the song in years. I don't know why it was in my head at all. Instead of trying to decipher a deeper meaning, I determined that it meant that today was Pac-Man day on What Makes The Pie Shops Tick?. I can be here for 66 weeks posting all of the awesome things that came from the Pac-Man franchise, instead, I will post a few things I really enjoy.

First we have stickers (thanks to tOkKa):

  
  

Records:

 

A Lunchbox:

 

a book (thanks to Waffle Whiffer):

and a cartoon:



Later today I will be sharing with you a version of what started it all.