Historical Context: January, 1943

Westerns have been popular since the onset of movies, and Richard Dix would bring an early version of Wyatt Earp to the screen in Tombstone (1942), playing Jan. 22-23 at Bob’s Theatre in Twin Bridges, Montana.

Historically in January of ’43,  Roosevelt and Churchill declared they would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers at the Casablanca Conference in the city of Casablanca, Morocco.

It wasn’t all war news in 1943.

New inventions included the Slinky (mechanical engineer Richard James was trying to create springs for ship equipment); the Aqualung (Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan were the inventors); and Duct tape (Vesta Stoudt, a munitions factory worker, invented the modern miracle).