Jan. 10, 1959: This was a fun, strange story. Art Ryon claimed that Richard Nixon’s mother said he was born in a hospital, not at home. Later this was strongly denied and Bela Kornitzer, in “The Real Nixon,”  went out of his well to disprove the story..

Also, a grieving father commits suicide on the grave of his 4-year-old son, who was killed in a traffic accident.

The complete post originally appeared on latimes.com in 2009 and is available via Archive.org.