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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.
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 .
‘Basement with supplies’ — USSR, 1973s.
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 .
Mom (Estelle) at 16, high school year book photo, 1951, Manhattan, NY
“YOU COWARDS ! France will not forget !” French poster against American bombings on French cities, 1944.
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Political cartoon about Russian support of Bashar Al Assad during the Syrian Civil War, 2012
A cousin of mine was killed on the first day of Operation Cobra on July 26, 1944, when his tank took a direct hit. He was a veteran of the invasions of Sicily & North Africa where he earned the DSC for valor. He served with the 66th Armored Regiment of the 2nd Armored Division. Humbling.
Biplane with German horseman, Berlin-Johannisthal, 12.08.1910
Old Spice. 1980.
“Sex is no accident. Always use a condom”. MTV, late 1980s
Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police chief who disobeyed orders to save about 3,600 Jewish refugees. He falsified their documents to indicate that they came when the legal entry of refugee was still legal. Grüninger was fired, convicted of misconduct, and stripped of his pension, 1930s .
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