Appalling government-sponsored experiments with disastrous results.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service for the purpose of observing the natural progression of syphilis with no medicinal intervention in poor, often uneducated African-American men. The men were lied to about the study’s intent and believed they were receiving free medical care and charity from the U.S. government. None of the men were informed that they were infected with Syphilis nor treated for it, even though there was an antibiotic readily available to cure it. Many passed the disease on to their partners, who then passed it on to their offspring. The majority of the infected men, women, and children, like the young boy in the picture suffering from the facial deformation effects of Congenital Syphilis, eventually died after being ravaged by the disease.
Last public execution in the United States, Kentucky, 1936.
About 20,000 people showed up and created a carnival-like atmosphere to watch Bethea McVeigh’s hanging, a black man convicted of the rape and murder of a white woman. The delight and fervor displayed by the mostly-white audience during the execution will forever haunt the town as one of its darkest days.
John F Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe , not a rumor anymore.
It is widely accepted that JFK and Marilyn Monroe did have sex at least once, In 1962 at Bing Crosby’s house in Palm Springs. A friend of Marilyn’s is quoted as saying:
Later, once the rumor mill was grinding, Marilyn told me that this night in March was the only time of her “affair” with JFK. Of course she was titillated beyond belief, because for a year he had been trying, through Lawford, to have an evening with her. A great many people thought, after that weekend, that there was more to it. But Marilyn gave me the impression that it was not a major event for either of them: it happened once, that weekend, and that was that.
The next and last time Marilyn Monroe crossed paths with JFK was at Kennedy’s 45th birthday party at Madison Square Garden. The knowledge that Monroe and JFK had already had a one-night stand by this point makes the sensuality she brought to her performance of Happy Birthday, Mr. President even more palpable.
The original prototype for Mount Rushmore, 1923.
Hellen Keller meets Charlie Chaplin, 1919.
“Jackie” the Lion, recording the MGM roar, 1928.
Grotto in iceberg during the British expedition of Antarctica, 1911.
Children in gas masks, England, WWII.
An Empire State builder hanging on a crane above New York City, 1925.
Nuclear Bomb “Shadow” in Hiroshima, Japan 1945.
Partially excavated Sphinx in Egypt, 1878.
Men celebrate the end of prohibition, December 5, 1933.
Two American soldiers with special ammo for Hitler, Easter Sunday, 1945.
An american evacuee punches a south vietnamese man for a place on the last chopper out of the US Embassy during the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.
American soldiers approaching Normandy Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Destroyer USS Shaw exploding during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961.
