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star-makers like "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts."
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• AP PHOTOS: Miami Heat lives to see Game 7 after overtime thriller; James scores 32
• MIAMI (AP) -- The Miami Heat were so close to elimination from the NBA championships that the team noticed officials bringing yellow tape out to block off the court for the Spurs' trophy presentation. But a couple of big 3-pointers later and powered by LeBron James' fourth-quarter surge, the defending champions stayed alive, edging San Antonio 103-100 in overtime. Game 7 is in Miami on Thursday, the NBA's first do-or-die game to determine its champion since the Lakers beat the Celtics in 2010. Here are some of the best images from Game 6:
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Wednesday, June 19, the 170th day of 2013. There are 195 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On June 19, 1953, Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y.
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• On this date:
• In 1862, Congress passed, and President Abraham Lincoln signed, a measure abolishing slavery in U.S. territories.
• In 1865, Union troops commanded by Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free.
• In 1910, the first-ever Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Wash. (The idea for the observance is credited to Sonora Louise Smart Dodd.)
• In 1934, the Federal Communications Commission was created; it replaced the Federal Radio Commission.
• In 1938, four dozen people were killed when a railroad bridge in Montana collapsed, sending a train known as the Olympian hurtling into Custer Creek.
• In 1952, the celebrity-panel game show "I've Got A Secret" made its debut on (Continued on page 37)
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