On this day 39 years ago, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer commits suicide during a live, televised press conference (Harrisburg, PA - January 22, 1987) - History Education Network

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Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as ‘comfort girls’ for the troops, 1939-1945.

My uncle, Walter Jackson, served as a Private First Class in the 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He gave his life during the Korean War and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart. He is memorialized outside the courthouse in Gainesville, Florida.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study participants with a nurse, Alabama 1932, for 40 years the US government secretly withheld Syphilis treatment from 399 Black men to study the disease’s natural progression (600 × 440 pixels)

National Liberation Front (‘EAM’), Greece: Propaganda poster against the British intervention in the events of Dec. 1944.

Queuing for alcohol in the late Soviet Union, 1991.

On this day 39 years ago, Pennsylvania State Treasurer Budd Dwyer commits suicide during a live, televised press conference (Harrisburg, PA – January 22, 1987)

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