TODAY IN HISTORY

1968: After 42 days, police close down Resurrection City, an encampment constructed on the National Mall as part of the Poor People’s March.

1949: William Boyd resurrects his old movie role as NBC airs the first TV Western series, Hopalong Cassidy.

1997: Air Force Col. John Haynes suggests that the 1947 “Roswell Incident,” in which witnesses reported seeing aliens, was nothing more than test balloons and life-size dummies.