Historic Photos / Set # 78

Please Note: The art of photography has the ability to expose brutality and provide evidence of the utter failure of humanity.  Some Images may be disturbing...

General Douglas MacArthur accepts Japanese surrender, USS Missouri, Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945.

Helen Keller, 73, who is blind and deaf, guides her hand over U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower’s face as her companion Polly Thomson communicates the President’s comments by sign language on Keller’s palm, November 3, 1953.

Medical evacuation on a Curtiss C-46 Commando from Manila during WW2, Circa - 1945.

 Director Alfred Hitchcock - November 8, 1956.

During the Vietnam War an AP photographer captures a napalm strike near U.S. Troops on patrol in South Vietnam in 1966.

RMS Lusitania departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives. May 1st 1915 - Photo Quest.

Newly freed prisoners of war celebrate as their C-141A aircraft lifts off from Hanoi, North Vietnam, on Feb. 12, 1973, during Operation Homecoming.

The Kennedy family departs a private chapel at the residence of Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., in Palm Beach, Florida, following Easter Sunday service / April 1962.

V-E Day celebration in Doncaster, England - May 8, 1945. (Photo Ian Evans)

Photo session for U.S. television show “The Partridge Family”, Los Angeles, May 22, 1972.

Boeing XB-15 wing strength demonstration, 1939.

Recruits with their mattresses tied to them to serve as life preservers. Newport Naval Station - Rhode Island, 1917.

An American soldier keeps his weapon dry while crossing a river in Vietnam, 1968.

May 12, 1959: Elizabeth Taylor marries her fourth husband Eddie Fisher in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: Rolls Press/Popperfoto.

Soldiers of the 369th Regiment, “Harlem Hellfighters”, standing in line on the Western Front Circa - 1917. X-post from /r/WWI.

Fans of rock group Kiss await the arrival of the group on stage at Cobo Hall in Detroit during the concert recording of the bands’ album “Alive!” - May 16, 1975.

Crew of USS Yorktown and Hellcat fighters during WWII Pacific operations, August 31, 1943.

Princess Margaret, younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II, marries photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey. The ceremony was the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television, and attracted viewing figures of 300 million worldwide. May 6, 1960: Fox Photos/Getty.

"A Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier".
 Photograph by Paul Thompson. Somewhere on the Western Front. Circa - 1917.

Easter service at St Patrick’s Chapel in Westminster Cathedral - Photo by Peter Hall, London 1961.

US Marines in action in the dense forest on Guadalcanal, August, 1942.

Two aerialists, Roland Schmidt and Francine Pary are married on a tightrope between the two towers of La Rochelle Harbour, France - March 22, 1959.

Two Civil War veterans from opposing sides shake hands at Gettysburg fifty years after the battle - 1913.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono begin their week-long “Bed-In”. Married five days earlier, the couple decided to spend their honeymoon in bed for a week, and invited the world’s press to join them in their Amsterdam hotel room to talk about world peace everyday between the hours of 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. / March 1969.

Harley Davidson with a mounted machine gun, WWI Circa - 1917.

St Patrick’s Day Parade - Chicago, Illinois, 1975 - Photo: Paul Sequeira.

Friday the 13th - Denver, Colorado 10/13/2000 - Photo: John Leyba for The Denver Post.

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Historic Photos / Set # 77

Please Note: The art of photography has the ability to expose brutality and provide evidence of the utter failure of humanity.  Some Images may be disturbing...

WWII photo of a Vought F4U Corsair crashing on the deck of a carrier.

Children gather to lick blocks of ice on the sidewalk during a heat wave in New York City.

The body of a suicide jumper on Wall Street during the great crash, New York City - 1929.

Hats manufactured for American soldiers by John B. Stetson Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Circa1917-18.

Spectators watch the SS United States set sail on her maiden voyage from New York City to Southampton. During the voyage, the ship takes the Blue Riband away from the RMS Queen Mary Photo by John Chillingworth Le Havre, France - 1952.

U.S. Paratroopers, their hair cut Mohawk-style, are briefed for the next day’s jump across the Rhine. Arras, France - 1945.

Bill Gates demonstrates the memory power of a CD,  1987.

German prisoners playing chess, Querrieu, October 1916.

Two North Vietnamese soldiers holding hands, Circa 1975.

Behind the scenes from filming The Godfather. Marlon Brando did not memorize one line of dialogue during his scenes in the movie and relied on creatively placed script cards to recite his lines.

 Baptising in Olde Towne Creek, Red Hill, Tennessee - 1938.

Buying a ‘10,000 Calorie Sundae’ for 35c from Blair Parson’s store in Lynchburg, Virginia - Circa 1950s.

Musician Mike Nesmith, of ‘The Monkees’, peering out of the roof of his Mini Cooper with his girlfriend - Photo: Keystone/Getty July 3, 1967.

Soldiers examine priceless art stolen by the Nazis and recaptured in Austria by the 44th Infantry Division - 1945.

A three story outhouse with a dozen private stalls in urban St Louis, Missouri - Circa 1800s.

Young exhibitor walks her kitten on a leash at the National Cat Club Show at Crystal Palace, London - Date Unknown.

Portrait of a slave family on a southern plantation prior to the Civil War.

Coney Island, New York - July 4, 1935 - Photo by Imagno.

Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller / July, 1956 - Photo: Paul Schutzer for Time Life.

Photo: Timothy McVeigh (Oklahoma City Police Department) Timothy McVeigh (33) is executed by lethal injection for his role in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The bombing killed 168 people and injured more than 600 others - June 11, 2001.

US Marines landing at Inchon during Korean War - Circa 1950.  Photo Hank Walker for Time-Life.

Crowds gather to see Cunard liner Lancastria grounded in the River Mersey off Egremont in 1938. Approximately 4,000 people are killed when RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. The ship had embarked with an unknown number of passengers who were refugees fleeing German-occupied Europe - Photo by Arthur Tanner.

Charles Manson, Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Leslie Van Houten go on trial in Los Angeles for the Tate-LaBianca murders. Photo: Charles Manson in court - 6/19/70 (Associated Press)

Maureen Swift riding on the Wall of Death circus ride in London - June 11, 1949 / Photo: Bert Hardy/Picture Post.

June 27, 1968: Elvis Presley performs on stage for the first time in seven years. Four one hour live shows were taped at NBC-TV studios in Burbank, California for Presley’s television special which aired on December 3, 1968. (Photo NBC)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt with entourage departing from the construction site of the Trylon and Perisphere in Flushing Meadows, New York - Photo: Charles Hoff for NY Daily News, June 30, 1938.

Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin performs at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, California. Photo by Larry Hulst - June 2, 1973.

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