Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 329, click here. 1. A man begging for his wife’s forgiveness inside Divorce Court. Chicago, ca. 1948. 2. A young Barack Obama spending time on the beach with his grandfather, 1963. 3. An East German soldier passing a flower through the Berlin Wall before it was…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 327, click here. 1. Walt Disney with the original Mickey Mouse Club lineup, 1955. 2. Johnny Clem, who joined the Union Army as a drummer boy at age 10. Clem became a legend when he shot and killed a Confederate Colonel at the Battle of…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 326, click here. 1. Mugshots of children executed by the communist Khmer Rouge dictatorship at Tuol Sleng prison, Cambodia, 1975-79. 2. A mob pours sugar, ketchup, and mustard over the heads of (from left) John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody during a sit-in demonstration at…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 325, click here. 1. Wehrmacht officers surrendering to the Norwegian resistance, May 1945. 2. Hitler justifies the invasion of Poland. Hitler speech of 1 September 1939. 3. Cannabis rights activist Ben Masel smoking a joint while voting in the 1976 Presidential election. Taking advantage of an…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 324, click here. 1. The Undertaker looks down at medical staff checking on Mankind after he fell, unscripted, through the top of Hell in a Cell into the ring 16ft below, 28 June 1998. 2. The 101st Airborne Division’s “Filthy Thirteen” volunteer pathfinders preparing to parachute…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 323, click here. 1. A girl holds her mother’s hand while running to school, protected by an RUC officer in riot gear, as protestors shouted, spat and threw things at them, during the Holy Cross Dispute in Northern Ireland, 2001. 2. Sir Winston Churchill, age 20,…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 322, click here. 1. Greenpeace tries to stop radioactive waste from being dumped in the ocean, 1982. 2. Vladimir Putin at the Age of 5 with Maria Ivanova, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, July 1958. 3. Commandant of Auschwitz Rudolf Höss being escorted to the gallows for…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 321, click here. 1. Võ Thi Thang smiling after being sentenced to 20 years of hard labor in a prison camp by the South Vietnamese govt. After being sentenced she reportedly smiled at the judge and said “20 years? Your government won’t last that long,” 1968.…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 320, click here. 1. Young boys harassing the Horace Baker family, the first African American family to move into the all-white Delmar Village neighborhood of Folcroft, Pennsylvania, 30 Aug. 1963. 2. American soldiers at mass in the rubble at Cologne Cathedral, March 1945. 3. Tibetan skeleton…… Read More »
Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 319, click here. 1. An old woman leaving her home with just a portrait of her husband and rugs. Russian soldiers gave her just 5 minutes to pack her bags and leave before they destroyed her home and everything in it. Her sons and husband were…… Read More »