MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 years ago — 1996
Who, me? Tom Arnold resents exwife Roseanne comparing him to O.J. Simpson. Arnold is upset about abuse allegations Roseanne made against him in the June issue of Ladies Home Journal, where she compares their failed marriage to that of Simpson and Nicole Brown Simpson. ”We did not have a perfect marriage, and I am not a perfect husband. But as far as the violence goes, it never happened,” Arnold says in the July 21 issue of TV Guide. In the Journal story, Roseanne said she felt she ”would be dead if I stayed with Tom.” Arnold denies her charges of physical abuse.
50 years ago — 1971
Millington will become headquarters for all Navy technical training in the United States in a sweeping reorganization announced in Washington and Memphis yesterday. The switch, effective Aug. 1, will put Rear Adm. V.G. Lambert, now chief of naval air technical training with headquarters at Millington, at the head of the new command.
75 years ago —1946
Moving into its fourth week and one that will bring summer music to the halfway mark for the extended 1946 season, the Memphis Open Air Theatre tonight will present the first in a series of six performances of a military musical drama from the Civil War era titled “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.”
100 years ago — 1921
Rigid enforcement of the law through more public spirited jury service and the work of a vigilance committee of 200 Memphis citizens to be picked secretly from the city at large by president Walker of the Chamber of Commerce was agreed upon yesterday by the conference of county, city and government law enforcing officials as one of the ways by which reckless violence violators of the law in Memphis might be curbed and the general situation tightened up. Mr. Walker will name this committee from the civic organizations.
125 years ago — 1896
LOUDON, Tenn. – Gov. Bob Taylor of Tennessee today delivered the first 1896 Democratic campaign speech in this part of the state.