James E. Jones’ father, Robert Earl Jones, in promotional still for the Langston Hughes play ‘Don’t You Want to Be Free?’ (1938)
Parents in 1981. Pawned their camera and the shop owner took their picture to make sure the camera worked
My grandparents on their honeymoon, circa 1942. Can you tell me where they were? Thank you with all my heart!
Betty Robinson got into a plane crash and was mistakenly pronounced dead. She spent 7 weeks in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk again. 5 years later, she won a gold medal in the Olympic Games 1936
Pierre Curie, Marie Curie and their daughter Irene Joliot-Curie in 1906. Everyone in this picture was a Nobel laureate in science.
Just a GIF of Brandon Lee having a smoke hours before he was accidentally shot to death on the set of The Crow by another actor (1994)
Rosalynn & Jimmy Carter in 1946. 30 years later he would be elected President of the USA. In 2023 they are still married and are the longest lived first couple. – 1946
Sigourney Weaver’s High School yearbook photo and quote from 1967. “Please, God, Please, Don’t Let Me Be Normal.”
Circa 1930 Echo Park in a sprouting Los Angeles. The little girl in the foreground is my Grandmother, who lived to be 93.
I love that big hair went well into the 90s. This is my aunt in college, 1994. Believe it or not, she still looks young.
Hugh Thompson, the hero who stopped a massacre committed by US troops in the Vietnamese village of My Lai by landing his helicopter in the line of fire, 1968.
FLo-Jo- The Greatest female runner of all time who holds the world record in the 100 and 200. Improved her 100 meter time in one year by an unheard of .47 seconds in 1988. She retired a couple months before the introduction of mandatory random drug testing in 1989.
A female Israeli soldier walks along the beach with her assault rifle, after the army recommended troops carry weapons with them at all times, Ein Fashka, the Dead Sea, Israel, Sept 1989
Ex POW John McCain, fractured both arms and a leg, before getting bayoneted and having his shoulder crushed. Despite torture by beatings every few days, he refused repatriation unless every man taken before him was also released, 1974
Did you grow up in the 80’s when they would take “mug shots” and fingerprints of children in hopes of the child never going missing but was definitely so they could identify your body if they did?
In 1956 Marilyn Monroe said that she’d like to try act in something “like Dostoevsky’s Karamazov”. The press mocked her. One guy even challenged her to spell Dostoevsky. This reporter tried to catch her sounding stupid but instead Marilyn responded with a zinger.
President Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy watching the America’s Cup Race off Newport, RI, aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. 15 Sep 1962.
In 1938, Nazis demanded to know if J. R. R. Tolkien was Jewish. Tolkien takes 270 words to say “Go Fuck Yourself”.
1948 – Tribal chairman of the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota was crying because he was forced under the threat of death of all his people to sign over the tribes’ homeland on the fertile floodplain of the Missouri River.
The last professional photograph that would ever be taken of Marilyn Monroe, Santa Monica Beach, July 13th, 1962 Photo/George Barris