Since you all loved my dad in LA 1974, here he is in Latvia, c. 1910
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Johnny Clem, the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga” who shot and killed a Confederate officer and rose through the ranks to Major General at the time of his retirement in 1916. [1080x1365]
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Nat King Cole, poses with a fan, Gladys Knight, age 7 in 1951.
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A man in Afghanistan is condemned to death for being a supporter of the communist regime. He would later be shot and beheaded 1980. [1600x1060]
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"Let's protect children from the priest's claws!" (USSR, 1962)
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The view inside Fort Sam Houston as 64 soldiers of the all-black 24th Infantry Regiment are court-martialed for mutiny. After being repeatedly harassed and attacked by the police, the soldiers had snapped. A total of 156 soldiers marched on Houston, where they killed 16 people, 1917 [1200 x 804].
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The inmate photo of Dan Tso-Se, a 14-year-old Navajo orphan, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment at the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Tso-Se killed four fellow tribe members, whom he said had treated him like a "slave", on a reservation in New Mexico when he was 13 in 1908 [1130 x 630].
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Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz & Drew Barrymore (and Matt Damon) 25 years ago in 2000
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The last photo of SS officer Fritz Dietrich, 50. He had a leading role in the massacres of thousands by Germans and Latvian collaborators in Liepāja. Dietrich, whose role in this was not known at the time, was hanged for the murders of 7 American POWs in Germany (Landsberg Prison, 1948) [903 x 622].
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José Capablanca (left) meets with US chess master Herman Steiner (right) for an informal game of chess in Los Angeles, 1933
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USS Essex (CV-9) repels kamikaze attacks near Okinawa, 11 April 1945
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A handwritten note from Mahatma Gandhi to my great-great-grandfather
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Japanese propaganda picture taken with chinese Children in the Nanjing region. Circa 1937-1938.
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Former NOPD officer Antoinette Frank is escorted out of the restaurant where she and her boyfriend murdered three people during a robbery. The jury had toured it during her trial. Frank had returned to the scene in her patrol car, pretending to be first responder (Louisiana, 1995) [656 x 500].
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A young German fallschirmjäger captured by the US army, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, near Weywertz. Belgium, 15 January, 1945. [1066 X 1309] [colorized]
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Edward Prince of Wales, (future King Edward VII) (right) smoking with his brother-in-law, Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark (future King Frederick VIII of Denmark) (left), in January 1869 when they were both in their 20s. [1080x1292] [Colourised]
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Supercentenarian Sarah Knauss, 118 years old, posing for a family photo, 1998.
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Some of the 300 to 500 people who tried to lynch a black teenager charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The lynching was foiled when Tennessee National Guard troops shot and stabbed dozens of the attackers, four of them fatally, after tear gas proved ineffective (Shelbyville, 1934) [2048 x 1542].
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