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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.
Danish troops on bicycle ride towards advancing German units during the invasion of Denmark, 9 April 1940. Less than 20 Germans and 16 Danes would be killed during the 2-hour long invasion of the country.
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Field group of Operation Tabarin surveying on Wiencke Island, 22 September 1944. The purpose of this British operation was to send 14 mens to Antarctica to prevent Chile and Argentina from exploiting the war in Europe to advance claims to Antarctica.
“Exterminate The Four Pests” China, 1958
South Korean spy chief Kim Jae-Gyu and some of his collaborators reenacting his assassination of President Park Chung Hee, formerly one of his closest friends, as part of an investigation into the slaying, 1979. Kim and his co-conspirators would be executed the following year. (1200×779)
Call home and have a chat with your VCR, 1989
WW1 Australian
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