Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
October 18, 2003
Nat "King" Cole
©Stars and Stripes
Seoul, South Korea, March 1, 1963: Singer Nat "King" Cole performs at Seoul's Municipal Auditorium. His expression seems to confirm what he told a Stars and Stripes reporter: "I feel a kinship with (the audience) in music. It's sort of doing something together." Cole, who had already sold over 50 million records by 1963, was the first black performer to have his own regular network radio show, then earned a similar distinction in TV's early years. His family stayed in Tokyo while he traveled to Korea in 1963; one of his five children, Natalie, would go on to sell over 30 million records and win several Grammy awards. Especially successful among her albums is Unforgettable, With Love, a 1991 tribute to her father, who died of cancer at age 45 in 1965.

RELATED MATERIAL
Click here to read Stripes' interview with Nat "King" Cole.
Click here to read a November, 1989 Stripes interview with Natalie Cole.
Click here for an in-depth biography of Nat "King" Cole.

Past photos of the day
October, 2003
October 17, 2003: Flight deck of the USS Saratoga in the Red Sea, 1990 (With story)
October 16, 2003: JFK and Khrushchev at the Vienna summit, 1961 (With additional photos)
October 15, 2003: A soldier meets up with a camel in the Saudi desert, 1990 (With story)
October 14, 2003: President Reagan's plane touches down at Bitburg, Germany, 1985 (With stories)
October 13, 2003: The Who, at a press conference for their 25th anniversary tour, 1989 (With stories)
October 12, 2003: Handicapped kids enjoy a stay at a German estate, 1957
October 11, 2003: A HAWK missile battery in the Saudi desert, 1990 (With stories)
October 10, 2003: Neil Young at the Schüttorf Open Air Festival, 1993 (With stories)
October 9, 2003: Soldier greets his mom, Gypsy Rose Lee, at the airport, 1965 (With story)
October 8, 2003: Nicolas Minue Challenge obstacle course, 1977 (With story and additional photos)
October 7, 2003: Ozzy Osbourne in Germany, 1989 (With story)
October 6, 2003: George Wallace in Saigon, 1969 (With stories)
October 5, 2003: Caterina Valente at a Frankfurt jazz concert, 1955 (With story)
October 4, 2003: Charlton Heston meets the press in Tokyo, 1966 (With stories)
October 3, 2003: Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie border crossing is removed, 1990 (With stories)
October 2, 2003: Ex-POWs head home after their release from North Vietnam, 1973 (With stories)
October 1, 2003: President Johnson arrives in Manila for a summit meeting (With stories)

September, 2003
September 30, 2003: Blues legend B.B. King, onstage in Frankfurt, 1993 (With stories)
September 29, 2003: Battalion Family Day at Bamberg, Germany (With story and additional photos)
September 28, 2003: Frank Sinatra stops in Frankfurt on the way home from Munich (With story)
September 27, 2003: Prince Charles and Princess Diana after the wedding ceremony, 1981 (With story)
September 26, 2003: Nirvana's Kurt Cobain at the Rhein Rock Fest, 1991 (With story)
September 25, 2003: Fighting a Rhine River flood, 1955
September 24, 2003: Singer-activist Harry Belafonte, 1988 (With story)
September 23, 2003: Operation Birmingham, Vietnam, 1966 (With stories and additional photos)
September 22, 2003: Gen. Colin Powell watches a Ramstein runway-repair exercise, 1989 (With story)
September 21, 2003: Communists rally in Berlin, 1948 (With story)
September 20, 2003: Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, 1974 (With story)
September 19, 2003: Woody Allen brings his jazz band to Frankfurt, 1996 (With story)
September 18, 2003: Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, 1992 (With stories)
September 17, 2003: Johnny Cash poses backstage at Frankfurt, 1988 (With story)
September 16, 2003: Seagoing wagon train to Neuwerk, Germany, 1960 (With story and additional photos)
September 15, 2003: Country music star and recording industry executive Roy Acuff, 1964 (With stories)
September 14, 2003: Comedian Red Skelton arrives in Tokyo, 1963 (With story)
September 13, 2003: Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy promote education, 1948
September 12, 2003: Bing Crosby with the troops in Germany, 1953 (With story)
September 11, 2003: Life at Patrol Base Diamond II in Vietnam, 1969 (With story and additional photos)
September 10, 2003: Eleanor Roosevelt tours Stuttgart, 1948 (With story)
September 9, 2003: U.S. servicemembers back in Germany after first Gulf War, 1991 (With story)
September 8, 2003: Billie Holiday headlines a Frankfurt jazz show, 1954 (With story and additional photos)
September 7, 2003: Actor Raymond Burr at the Korean DMZ, 1963 (With stories)
September 6, 2003: Adlai Stevenson arrives in Frankfurt, 1953 (With story)
September 5, 2003: Air Force training exercise over Spain, 1961 (With story and additional photos)
September 4, 2003: Supply trucks line up at the start of the Berlin airlift, 1948  (With story)
September 3, 2003: Josephine Baker and her family in France, 1959 (With story and additional photos)
September 2, 2003: Former heavyweight boxing champ Joe Louis arrives in Germany (With story)
September 1, 2003: Labor leader Walter Reuther, 1953  (With story)

(Click here for Photos of the Day from June, July and August, 2003.)