June 5, 1964 –

The Looney Tunes short, War and Pieces, directed by Chuck Jones, starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, debuted on this date.
The was the last cartoon directed entirely by Chuck Jones before he was fired from Warner Bros. Pictures in July 1962 for writing UPI’s Gay Purr-ee. He and his team later moved to MGM after Warner Bros. shut down their animation studio in 1963.
