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Georgia Tann with an unknown toddler, circa 1945. Tann owned and operated the unlicensed Tennessee Children's Home Society adoption agency which between the mid-1920s and 1950 trafficked over 5,000 children in a black market baby adoption scheme.
Posted 17 days ago
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Gary Sinise here. Here's me getting my first guitar in 4th grade back in the early 1960s
Posted 17 days ago
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Marianne Bachmeier in 1981 after she shot the Rapist/Murderer of her young daughter during his trial, inside the courtroom. 6 out of 7 shots hit the guy, double tap in the head.
Posted 17 days ago
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17 year old anti-fascist resistance fighter Albina Mali-Hočevar in 1942.
Posted 18 days ago
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Ho Chi Minh, revolutionary and North Vietnamese leader, poses with German sailors aboard a ship in Straslund harbor, during a visit to East Germany. July 27, 1957.
Posted 18 days ago
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Pacific War veteran Howard Auld, 25, sits between two cops shortly after his arrest for murder. He'd went after a waitress after dancing with her at a V-J Day party. When she spurned his advances, Auld beat her unconscious, raped her, and left her to die in a cistern (New Jersey, 1945) .
Posted 19 days ago
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