Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
October 21, 2003
Art Linkletter
Joe Wesley ©Stars and Stripes

Wiesbaden, German, June 14, 1967: Art Linkletter, host of the popular "House Party" television show, talks with Dawn Lemire, daughter of SM Sgt. and Mrs. Donald Lemire, during a visit to the USAFE Hospital in Wiesbaden. Linkletter, whose humorous conversations with children were a highlight of his radio and TV shows and the basis of several books, was filming "House Party" in Berlin and Naples, Italy.

RELATED MATERIAL
Click here to read Stripes' story about Art Linkletter's visit to Wiesbaden.
Click here to read a Stripes story about Art Linkletter in Tokyo in 1968.


Past photos of the day
October, 2003
October 20, 2003: Silent-film comedian Buster Keaton, 1962 (With story)
October 19, 2003: Church service at Ramstein AB, 1959 (With story and additional photos)
October 18, 2003: Nat "King" Cole, onstage in South Korea, 1963  (With stories)
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.)