TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Oct. 5, 1989

A jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, convicted former P-T-L evangelist Jim Bakker of using his television show to defraud followers.

ON THIS DATE 1947

President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised White House address as he spoke on the world food crisis.

1958

Racially-desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, was mostly leveled by an early morning bombing.

1969

The British TV comedy program “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” made its debut on BBC 1.