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YouTube video by Library of Congress LC Performance. Interview. Conversation With Rod Serling

Here, you can watch the full 1968 Serling interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFVJ...

Source (video): Library of Congress
Source (info): IMDB, PBS SoCal, Justia, Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum

#RodSerling #TwilightZone #RonaldReagan #SCOTUS #BlackHistory

In 1988, as President of the United States, Reagan signed fair housing amendments into law, saying “Discrimination is particularly tragic when it means a family is refused housing near good schools, a good job, or simply in a better neighborhood to raise children.”

California’s fair housing laws would be repealed, but the law which repealed them was struck down when the U.S. Supreme Court declared the state was unconstitutionally involved in discrimination (Reitman v. Mulkey, 387 U.S. 369 (1967)).

When Serling lambastes the “tutelage of our Governor” in California, he’s referring to Ronald Reagan. Reagan criticized the state’s fair housing laws, saying, “If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house, he has the right to do so.”

Here, Serling advocates for more pointed criticisms of race relations in America, particularly in television documentaries. He praises, but also critiques “Same Mud, Same Blood,” a 1967 NBC documentary about black and white soldiers serving in Vietnam.

TIDBITS: From “A Conversation with Rod Serling,” a 1968 television interview featuring Rod Serling, the creator of The Twilight Zone; James Dickey, poet; and Bernie Harrison, journalist for the Washington Star.

Source (info): Library of Congress, National Archives
Source (image): Massachusetts Historical Society

#AbigailAdams #JohnAdams #Adams #Massachusetts #ContinentalCongress #Congress #19thAmendment #USA #America250

It was not until 1920, when the 19th Amendment was ratified, that women would secure the right to vote in the United States.

Abigail Adams, writing to her husband John on March 31, 1776. She was urging her husband, as a member of the Continental Congress from Massachusetts, to consider the rights of women as he helped develop the laws of the new nation.

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care & attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion & will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

TIDBITS: “I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.

Source (video): This Podcast is Making Me Thirsty
Source (info): CBS News

#JohnFKennedyJr #JFKJr #JohnFKennedy #JFK #JacquelineKennedy #JackieKennedy #JerrySeinfeld #Seinfeld #TonightShow #JayLeno #Camelot #MarthasVineyard #America250

The son of President John F. Kennedy & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, JFK Jr. was the heir apparent to “Camelot.” He died a little over a year after this appearance, at the age of 38, when the plane he was piloting crashed off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. Kennedy’s wife & sister-in-law also died.

TIDBITS: How 90s is this? John F. Kennedy, Jr. appeared alongside Jerry Seinfeld on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on May 14, 1998, the night of the Seinfeld series finale. Seinfeld and Kennedy make reference to the famous “Soup Nazi” episode of Seinfeld.

Image 3: Alexander Hamilton, frostbitten & surrounded by winter, on Commonwealth Ave; December 2025 (credit: @_joes_shots on Instagram)

#Boston #Massachusetts #NewEngland #Patriots #Snow #Winter #BostonPublicGarden #GeorgeWashington #Washington #Commonwealth #AlexanderHamilton #Hamilton #America250

Image 2: A brownstone apartment on Commonwealth Ave., just outside the Boston Public Garden; December 2025

TRAVELIN: Patriots play in the snow ❄️ Boston, Massachusetts is rich with history, & when the snow falls, it becomes a winter wonderland!

Image 1: The Boston Public Garden’s statute of George Washington stands tall in the snow as squirrel looks on; December 2025 (credit: @_joes_shots on Instagram)

Wishing everyone a happy holiday season! Be merry and stay warm, I’ll see you in the new year! ❄️🎄❄️

#TIDBITS “With Walt Disney. One time we were interviewed and the reporter asked me about us being on opposite sides of the political fence. Walt said ‘That has nothing to do with our friendship.’ I always appreciated that.”

Source (image/info): My Lucky Life in & Out of Show Business, Dick Van Dyke

Rest in peace, Rob Reiner
#TWOCENTS

#DrSeuss #Seuss #Geisel #Grinch #Christmas #TheCatInTheHat #ChuckJones #MelBlanc #LooneyTunes #BugsBunny #WWII #FrankCapra #ItsAWonderfulLife #BorisKarloff #Frankenstein #Halloween #ThurlRavenscroft #TonyTheTiger #FrostedFlakes #JimCarrey #RonHoward #Whoville

Source (info): Smithsonian Magazine, The Boys by Ron Howard & Clint Howard
Source (images): IMDB, Crime Reads, Ron Howard

Several other adaptations and enough merchandise to fill Mount Crumpit have cemented the Grinch, his dog Max, and all The Whos down in Whoville as indispensable elements of the Christmas season.

🎥 For the 2000 film adaptation, Jim Carrey was so disturbed by the Grinch makeup that director Ron Howard kept coming up with tricks to keep Carrey calm, including wearing some of the makeup himself.

🐅The 1966 special included the voice talents of Boris Karloff, best remembered for portraying Frankenstein’s Monster, and Thurl Ravenscroft who voiced Tony the Tiger of Frosted Flakes.
🎃An overlooked animated television special starring the Grinch was released for Halloween in 1978.

📺The 1966 animated television special reunited Dr. Seuss with wartime pal Chuck Jones, best known for working on Looney Tunes
🪖During WWII, Seuss & Jones worked on educational cartoons for troops alongside It’s a Wonderful Life director Frank Capra. The cartoons were voiced by Mel Blanc (Bugs Bunny)

#TIDBITS Some fun facts about our favorite green meanie, Mr. Grinch!

☀️“The Grinch” first appeared in an illustrated poem written by Dr. Seuss in Redbook Magazine during the summer of 1955.
📕How the Grinch Stole Christmas was published in 1957, the same year as The Cat in the Hat!

#Rudolph #RobertMay #MontgomeryWard #Chicago #Christmas #ChristmasEve #Santa #Hermey #YukonCornelius #SamSnowman #BurlIves #GeneAutry #JohnnyMarks #RankinBass

But the most famous reindeer of all began life as a department store promotion to help drive shoppers into stores.

Source (info): Yankee Magazine
Source (images): Smithsonian Institution, The Hill

Rudolph was immortalized in claymation for a 1964 television special by Rankin/Bass, forever to be associated with colorful characters like Hermey, Yukon Cornelius, and Burl Ives’ Sam the Snowman.