AP US HistoryThis Day in American History

October 22

1934 – Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd is shot by FBI agents in a cornfield in East Liverpool, Ohio. Floyd,

who had been a hotly pursued fugitive for four years, used his last breath to deny his involvement

in the infamous Kansas City Massacre, in which four officers were shot to death at a train station. He

died shortly thereafter.

AP US HistoryThis Day in American History

October 22

1962 – In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F. Kennedy announces that

U.S. spy planes have discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites—under construction but

nearing completion—housed medium-range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities

in the United States, including Washington, D.C.

AP US HistoryThis Day in American History

October 22

1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Highway Beautification Act, which attempts to limit

billboards and other forms of outdoor advertising, as well as with junkyards and other unsightly roadside

messes, along America's interstate highways. The act also encouraged "scenic enhancement" by funding local efforts to clean up and landscape the green

spaces on either side of the roadways.

AP US HistoryThis Day in American History

October 22

1992 - Red Barber—the legendary announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers, with a voice that one sportswriter

called "a spoonful of sugar drifting through a glass of iced tea"—dies. He was 84 years old. In an era when almost every major league baseball team had a distinct voice—Mel Allen for the Yankees, Curt Gowdy for the Red Sox,

Harry Caray for the Cards—Barber’s erudite-but-homespun Mississippi twang was the Dodgers.