It's true the public was significantly more straightforward back in the day. But this 1957 episode is actually far more ...
On April 1, 1957 the BBC aired the spaghetti-hoax story -a joke described as "the most successful April Fool's Day prank of all time." ...
On the sixth day of Christmas, a stranger gave to the Mark and Mary Curran family of Portage: 16 purloined Christmas trees, one three-foot Santa, one plastic gingerbread man and a teddy bear. Mary ...
For the most part, TV audiences today wouldn't fall for such a prank. But in 1957, plenty of viewers were eating it up.
Don’t be fooled by Christmas trees and snowmen, for when two innocent staples of the holiday season fall into the hands of a few tricksters, they hardly twinkle and smile with Christmas cheer. While ...
Someone is deliberately cutting down tree branches and laying them on roadways across Granville County. The incidents have resulted in three wrecks and the death of one motorcyclist. Pete Hicks was ...