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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 .
‘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
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 .
“Be careful with fire in a forest” USSR 1980’s
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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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