What Happened in Aug 1954

"Rear Window" Is Released

Rear Window is a 1954 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It... Read more

'Horton Hears A Who' is Published

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent. Read more

'A Fable' Is Published

A Fable is a novel written in 1954 by the American author William Faulkner, which won him both the Pulitzer prize and the National Book Award in... Read more

The Vanishing Prairie is released

The Vanishing Prairie was a 1954 documentary film by Walt Disney, which won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature in 1954. Read more

The American Communist Party is Outlawed

I HAVE just signed a bill which is designed to place into the hands of our law enforcement agencies, particularly the Attorney General and the FBI,... Read more