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March 5, 1947: THE BEGINNING OR THE END opened at The Grove Theatre in Oak Ridge, TN. If you're into this Cold War/Hollywood nuke stuff, Greg Mitchell wrote a great book on the film.




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Greg Mitchell's "The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero — and Nuclear Peril Today" trailer:





Life March 17, 1947 Vol. 22, No. 11



AIRPLANE DISASTERS that occurred on March 5th:


5 March 1963, popular country singers Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes were killed in a plane crash, 85 miles west of Nashville in Camden Tennessee. Her most famous hits were Crazy, Sweet Dreams and I Fall to Pieces. In 1973, she was the first female inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.  Jack Anglin died in a car crash on March 8 while on his way to Patsy Cline's memorial service.

Jayne was scheduled to play Marilyn Monroe in Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) but she turned down the role because of her pregnancy with daughter Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), and was replaced by Kim Novak. That same year, Mansfield appeared in a pinup book called Jayne Mansfield for President: the White House or Bust, which was promoted on billboards; David Attie, a commercial and fine art photographer, took the photographs.



Rare novelty publication which spoofed presidential elections. It was published during the 1964 presidential campaign, urging voters to consider supporting Jayne Mansfield to be the first female president. With black & white pin-up photos of the voluptuous actress taken for the book by photographer David Attie and accompanying risqué captions.



A communist agent causes a "a small atomic reaction" in a Idaho lab while stealing documents. File #65-57884-U, Lawrence Turner Underwood (Linden Chiles), Espionage. THE F.B.I., "The Contaminator," ABC, S2:E11, 12/4/66.




March 5, 1982: John Belushi dies at 33 the day after the premiere of POLICE SQUAD! (whose writers famously conceived of a scenario for his "cameo" death on the show). According to the AP (3/6/82), the Belushi segment had actually been filmed, but was dropped.





How Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance was Found




Disney to Cut Nearly 6% of Staff Across ABC News, Disney Entertainment Networks

Huh, I never heard of ABC 538 and its Polling Project


March 5, 2022: President Vladimir Putin said that Western sanctions on Russia were akin to a declaration of war and warned that any attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine would lead to catastrophic consequences for the world.