75 years ago

January 7, 1944

Here’s the latest in jeep dashboard styles from Bouganville in the South Pacific.

Marine Private First Class James T. Green, whose parents live on Aberdeen Avenue, strung a wire across the dashboard of his jeep and mounted 11 hand grenades on it.

When the jeep is being driven, the grenades rattle a bit, but there is no danger of them going off unless the pin is pulled and they are thrown. Meanwhile, they’re handy for instant use.

The young Leatherneck, a veteran of Guadalcanal, is nearing his third year in the corps. His brother, Bill, 24, has been in the Marines six years. The latter has served on Tulagi in the Solomons.

50 years ago

January 7, 1969

Sirhan Bishara Sirhan appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom today for the start of his trial on charges of murdering Sen. Robert F Kennedy. The 24-year-old Jordanian, who came to this country as a boy with his family, is accused of shooting Kennedy last June 5 in a kitchen corridor of the Ambassador Hotel as the New Yorker left a victory celebration following California’s Democratic presidential primary.

25 years ago

January 7, 1994

There’s a dinner theater opening tonight at Aberdeen’s Backstage, 125 E. Heron St. It’s the building that formerly housed the Muzzle Loader Tavern.

The Friday and Saturday night presentations of the two-act comedy “A Couple White Chicks Sitting Around Talking” will continue weekends through January.

The show features Kysa Jackstadt and Melody Crump of Shelton. Melody has acted at the Old Globe Theater is San Diego and was last seen in “The Last of the Red Hot Lovers” at the Liberty on the South Side, also the former digs of the talented Jackstadt.

The kitchen isn’t quite done so there will be only hors d’oeuvres tonight and Saturday, at $10 a ticket, show included.

Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom