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Anti-abortion fanatic Paul Jennings Hill, 49, gives a press conference just one day before his execution. Hill, then a minister, was convicted of the murders of abortion provider John Britton and his bodyguard, James Herman Barrett Jr. (Florida State Prison, 2003) .
My 3x Great Grandfather, Joseph Axford (15), 1873, Wandsworth Prison, London. Arrested and given 2 weeks hard labour for stealing a blanket early January.
After the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in 1945, roughly 900 men went into the water. Only 316 survived. The Navy court-martialed the captain. A 12-year-old kid’s school project got him exonerated 55 years later.
(1906 x 1202) Andrea Doria (C 553) helicopter cruiser of the Italian Navy, commissioned in 1964 to specialize in anti-submarine warfare (ASW).
A Palestinian woman points to the bloodstain of British documentary filmmaker James Miller, as his helmet and bulletproof vest lie at the scene where he was fatally shot in the neck by an Israeli sniper while Miller was filming his documentary “Death in Gaza” for HBO. Rafah , May 2003
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Injured Auxiliary Fire Service firefighters at a casualty clearing station in Westminster Hospital, c. 1940.
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“An American Marine, in foreground, still clutches the knife with which he killed the Jap, in background, in a duel on Engebi Island, Eniwetok Atoll. A moment after finishing off his adversary, a sniper’s bullet killed the Marine.” ca. Feb 1944.
Pan fried Nutburgers. Wrigley’ Spearmint Chewing Gum. 1950s
A 1943 short film, titled “Der Fuehrer’s Face,” depicts Donald Duck trapped within the Nazi war machine, forced to work in a munitions factory assembling artillery shells
A photo of the aftermath of the Sétif and Guelma massacre. Immediately after the end of the war in Europe, the French embarked on a mass killing of Algerian independence protesters. Ironically, the massacre started on V.E. Day. Overall, 6,000 to 30,000 people were killed, 1945 .
‘Try to negotiate with THAT!’ — British cartoon from the Second World War (May 1940) criticising anti-war activists. Drawn by Philip Zec for the Daily Mirror.
“For Great Britain all races and peoples are equal”, Italy, 1944
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