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Boston Corbett, the self-castrated hat maker who killed Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Photographed by Mathew Brady circa 1880 (635×861)
My great aunt Julie (left) and unidentified girl, late 1920s, NY
NATO (Soviet cartoon, 1979)
A 1940 prison photo of Cleo Wright. Two years later, Wright was lynched. A white mob dragged him from his cell to to a black neighborhood and burned him alive in view of two church congregations. It was the first lynching to occur after the United States entered World War II, Missouri .
When former slave Jordan Anderson was asked to come back and work for his old master, he replied with a deadpan letter asking for 52 years’ back pay as proof of good faith. The letter has been described as a rare example of documented ‘slave humor’ of the period. Below is Jourdon Anderson’s Letter.
Don’t be alarmed if the Martians come demanding “IFIC.” Beechnut Gum, 1950s.
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G Gordon Liddy, FBI agent & Watergate culprit known for his macho antics, in 1964. Liddy had a habit of putting his hand over a lit flame to test his pain endurance, & supposedly sang the Nazi anthem upon entering prison to demonstrate his fearlessness. He never apologized for Watergate (2346×2928)
New York City Blizzard of 1947.
“Don’t be fooled by U.S. deceptions!” North Korea, 2002
“Section of human skin preserved as ornament. Found at Buchenwald. Evidence submitted by American Prosecution at War Crimes Trial in Nuremberg of 21 top Nazis.” ca. 1945 – 1946.
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“60 years later”, 2000s-2010s, Russian picture on the veterans’ quality of life
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