View Gallery: 'Daisy Girl' ad still haunting 7, 1964, during a screening of the 1951 biblical drama "David and Bathsheba" on NBC's "Monday Night at the Movies." Unsuspecting viewers had never seen anything like it, and the outcry was immediate. The 60-second spot was broadcast only once, 50 years ago today, on Sept. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who had been in the news for controversial comments about atomic warfare and held an uncompromising stance toward the Soviet Union and communism. Johnson's 1964 Republican opponent was never mentioned by name, but the target was clear: conservative Sen. We must either love each other, or we must die."Ī narrator implores voters to support Johnson on Election Day: "The stakes are too high for you to stay home." "To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the dark. "These are the stakes," says President Lyndon Johnson. As the countdown hits zero, a nuclear bomb detonates with a mushroom cloud. The frame freezes and the camera zooms into a close-up of the child's eye.
When she gets to 10, a chilling voice-over countdown begins. history hasn't lost its explosive punch.įor nearly 30 seconds, a freckled, brown-eyed girl - unmistakably a redhead even though the scene is in black and white - counts as she plucks petals from a daisy on an idyllic August day in New York City's Highbridge Park. In 1990, she was 69 years old when after 27 years in prison, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end South African apartheid was released on February 11th 1990.Watch Video: ‘Daisy’ ad still potent 50 years after Goldwater defeatįifty years on, the most famous, or notorious, political attack ad in U.S. After an exhaustive (and long) investigation it came to be believed that two individuals from Libya had planted the bomb. The flight had left Heathrow Airport in London less than an hour before, on its way to New York. The explosion killed all 259 people on board and another 11 on the ground. In 1988, by the time she was 67 years old, on December 21st, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie Scotland. The ruling stated that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students was unconstitutional thus paving the way for integration in schools. In 1954, Daisy was 33 years old when on May 17th, the Supreme Court released a decision on Brown v. tell you.that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry." It faced a lot of opposition and in fighting for it, Roosevelt said "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day. The Act banned oppressive child labor, set the minimum hourly wage at 25 cents, and established the maximum workweek at 44 hours. In 1938, by the time she was 17 years old, on June 25th (a Saturday) the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt (along with 120 other bills).
Although the Act was supposed to be temporary, it stayed in effect until 1965. It also established an immigration quota in which only 3 per cent of the total population of any ethnic group already in the USA in 1910, could be admitted to America after 1921. The law restricted the number of immigrants to 357,000 per year. In 1921, in the year that Daisy Key was born, in May, the Emergency Quota Act - or Emergency Immigration Act - was passed. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Daisy's lifetime.
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