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Boxing in Yankee Stadium
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A Russian spy laughing through his execution (1939)
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The evacuation of Saigon, in which some 45 UH-1 Hueys and one CH-47 where pushed overboard to make room for others to land (1975)
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The first passengers on the New York subway (1904)
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Ernest Hemingway at a Havana Bar (date unknown)
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Policemen inspect a “lumber truck” that smelled of alcohol during prohibition (1926)
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Archduke Franz and his wife on the day they are assassinated, which contributed to the start of WW1 (1914)
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A native American watching the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada (1868).
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The oldest running car on the planet, the 1884 De Dion, Bouton et Trepardou Dos-a-Dos
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A newly liberated French citizen happily lights Winton Churchill’s cigar (1944)
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A US soldier offering a hand to a woman leaving a cave during WW2
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Queen Elizabeth during her WW2 service
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The last picture of Titanic before sinking (1912)
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A pyramid of helmets from captured German soldiers on display in New York (1918)
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Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein debating quantum physics (1925)
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Fidel Castro and Malcolm X (1960)
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106 year old Armenian women protecting her home with an AK-47 (1990) (doesn’t look like 1990)
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Star Wars set at lunchtime
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A WW1 submarine washed ashore on the beach in England
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Execution of a German communist in Munich (1919)
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Muhammad Ali trying to talk down a suicidal man (1981)
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Construction of MT. Rushmore National Memorial (1939)
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John Young and Charles Duke training for the Apollo 16 in the New Mexico desert
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Anne Frank pokes her head out of her family’s flat in Amsterdam (1942)
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Hitler inspecting the massive 800mm “Schwerer Gustav” railway gun- the largest-caliber rifled weapon ever used in combat (1942)
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Eyes of Hate: a photo of Goebbels after finding out his photographer is Jewish
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The first Wal-Mart store in 1962 by Sam Walton. It was called Walton’s five and dime
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A rare photo of a young Winston Churchill (1895)
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The construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (1937) Completed in April (1937), opened to traffic in May (1937)
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Gadget, the first atomic bomb, detonated at the Trinity site
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The night they ended prohibition (December 1933)
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German prisoners marching to Moscow after their defeat at Belarus (1944)
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Testing a bullet proof vest (1923)
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A V-1 flying bomb buzz bomb plunging towards London (1945)
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Buzz Aldrin taking a selfie in space (1966)
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USAAF B-25 sinks Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze off the coast of Xiamen, China (1945)
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Ford’s first car factory (opened in 1913- photo in 1926)
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Allied forces mocking Hitler (1945)
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A U.S. soldier replacing Adolf Hitler str with Roosevelt Boulevard in Berlin, Germany (1945)
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I was looking at some Lee Harvey Oswald photos the other day….

Kennedy motorcade just after exiting Dealey Plaza turning onto the freeway to Parkland Hospital…people unaware waving…Texas School Book Depository in the background

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Oswald just outside the theater he was arrested in


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Oswald being put in car after arrest


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policeman shows seat in the theater where Oswald was when arrested


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Jack Ruby at the police station where he shot Oswald 2 days before shooting Oswald

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Jack Ruby in hat just before emerging to shoot Oswald

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Oswald being placed in ambulance

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Oswald ambulance headed to Parkland Hospital


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newsmen serve as pallbearers for Oswald casket

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Lee Harvey Oswald….a lonely funeral…wife, 2 young daughters, mother and his brother


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Jack Ruby being returned to the Dallas County Jail with the Texas School Book Depository in the background


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plaque on the corner of the school book depository…….…..”allegedly” at the bottom right


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guess we can’t quit without the iconic photo


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I was 8 years old watching live when Oswald was shot…I yelled upstairs to my mother she needed to come see what had happened
 
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