In the capsule today…
We find the Great Lakes freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinking to the bottom of Lake Superior, losing all her crew. Gordon Lightfoot created a hit and somber song about the tragedy a year later.
We find an anti-establishment crime drama about a Brooklyn bank robbery gone wrong. Al Pacino stars in Dog Day Afternoon.
And on the radio we find “Love Will Keep Us Together” by husband-and-wife team Captain & Tennille. Tennille stated that the group’s accountant said that they would do "a lot better with taxes'' if they got married. So they did. The two divorced in 2014, after 39 years.
What is the year? (answer below).
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The year... 1975!