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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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Italian prisoners captured during the invasion of Sicily, July 1943
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Inhabitants of Turin watch the FIAT Lingotto plant burning and collapsing after an Allied air raid, 29 March 1944
«The evolution of the fighting man» between 1914 and 1918.
Grandpa and me (1 week) 1947
This is a photo of Lou Conter, who passed away today at the age 102. Lou was the last remaining survivor of the USS Arizona, which was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Actors Raymond Burr and Vic Perrin in a publicity still for CBS Radio’s Fort Laramie, 1956. This excellent show ran one season. The next year, Burr was cast as Perry Mason for television (more info below)
Take one before retiring… Sussan’s trio of tantalising tranquillisers. 1970s
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