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  Exactly 50 years ago, Manson Family member Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme attempted to assassinate US President Ford in Sacramento, CA (September 5, 1975). This Newsweek cover shows her moments after her gun failed to fire.

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  Female hitchhikers trying to hitch a ride near Częstochowa, Poland, 1970. Photo by Kazimierz Seko.

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  “…They don’t really seem to know WHY they are protesting!” United States of America, 2011.

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  My grandmother. She passed away a week ago at 93. ❤️

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  On May 10th 1973 a man entered a bank in Kenora Ont. armed with a rifle and a ‘dead man’s switch’ connected to a bomb in his mouth. He was shot leaving the bank, activating the switch, detonating the bomb. His identity remains unknown.

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  15-year-old African American student Dorothy Counts starts the school year at Harry Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, amid protests, screams, and insults from White people who were against school integration, on September 4, 1957 .

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  ‘Basement with supplies’ — USSR, 1973s.

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  The inside of a cell where an inmate was killed during the New Mexico State Penitentiary riot. During the riot, inmates, who’d obtained blowtorches, went to the protective custody unit, where they began using them, first on the doors, then on inmates, who were seen as ‘snitches’, 1980 .

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  Mom (Estelle) at 16, high school year book photo, 1951, Manhattan, NY

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  Jeffrey Doucet is escorted through an airport in Baton Rouge to face trial for kidnapping and raped an 11-year-old boy. On his right is the boy’s father, Gary Plauche. In one of the world’s most infamous cases of vigilantism, Plauche shot Doucet on live TV moments later, Louisiana, 1984 .

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  Seventeen-year-old Badí, in custody before his execution at the hands of Násiri’d-Dín Sháh’s guards. His crime was delivering a letter to the Shah. Qajar Iran, 1869.

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  Curtis Jones, 12, and his sister Catherine Jones, 13, appear in court after killing their father’s girlfriend. They would be charged as adults. Unsealed documents later revealed that the two were being sexually abused and had resorted to murder when nobody believed them, Florida, 1999 .

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  My parents (Frank and Estelle) married 11/24/56, together until the end. Lost both 5/31/25

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  Wernher von Braun, director of NASA’s Marchall Space Flight Center, at his office in Huntsville, Alabama 1965.

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  According to doctors, women are particularly vulnerable to issues caused by rough toilet tissue… Scott, 1930.

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  Soviet wartime propaganda (1944–1945)

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  ‘We don’t always march straight’ 2018 Swedish Armed Forces Pride Advertisement

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  The establishment wig (1968)

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  My husbands 3rd great-grandmother. Photo not dated but she was 16 in 1907.

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  Carl Newton Mahan plays with a doll during a court hearing after he shot and killed another boy during a fight. At age six, Mahan became the youngest person to ever be tried for murder in American history, Kentucky, 1929 .

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