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re: Interesting historical pictures thread (add captions please)
Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:41 pm to HarryBalzack
Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:41 pm to HarryBalzack
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Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of racially motivated lynching. Washington was accused of raping and murdering the wife of his white employer in rural Robinson, Texas.
Washington was tried for murder in Waco, in a courtroom filled with furious locals. He entered a guilty plea and was quickly sentenced to death. After his sentence was pronounced, he was dragged out of the court by observers and lynched in front of Waco's city hall. Over 10,000 spectators, including city officials and police, gathered to watch the attack. There was a celebratory atmosphere at the event, and many children attended during their lunch hour. Members of the mob castrated Washington, cut off his fingers, and hung him over a bonfire. He was repeatedly lowered and raised over the fire for about two hours. After the fire was extinguished, his charred torso was dragged through the town and parts of his body were sold as souvenirs. A professional photographer took pictures as the event unfolded, providing rare imagery of a lynching in progress. The pictures were printed and sold as postcards in Waco.
Picture sof the mob preparing to lynch Jesse Washington from a tree in front of Waco city hall taken by Fred Gildersleeve on May 15, 1916.
Photographs of the lynching of Jesse Washington in progress. Taken by Fred Gildersleeve on May 15, 1916.
A picture of the body of Jesse Washington after he was lowered to the ground after burning to death.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:45 pm to Master of Sinanju
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Babe Ruth, just before he died. The Yale baseball player is George H. W. Bush, 41st President if the US.
interesting!
Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:46 pm to MaroonWhite
This post was edited on 1/25/13 at 9:48 pm
Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:47 pm to IonaTiger
quote:Happened every day for a while. This is one of the few cases where someone was there with a camera.
Unfrickingbelieveable.
Notice the number of people smiling. Cutting off genitals, ears, noses, fingers, toes, tongues, etc. to keep as souvenirs was not uncommon, either. And, most of those pics are actually post cards produced to commemorate/celebrate the event.
The Sam Hose case from Georgia was even worse.
Of course, here's Emmett Till:
FWIW - one of the men who did this is still walking around free, in Mississippi, as is the woman Till whistled at and who encouraged her husband and his friends to do this.
This post was edited on 1/25/13 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:48 pm to Wrestler171
There are some heavy hitters in that front row.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 9:49 pm to HarryBalzack
Some of our history is just not very pretty or noble.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:01 pm to Duckie
Huey Long lying in state.
The body of the alleged assassin, Dr. Weiss
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:10 pm to Duckie
Astronaut John Glenn, aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury Capsule launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on February 20, 1962, sending the first American into orbit.
A photo of a nuclear bomb detonated by the French government at the Mururoa atoll, French Polynesia
A longer-exposure photograph of the Trinity explosion seconds after detonation on July 16, 1945.
Upshot-Knothole Grable, a test carried out by the U.S. military in Nevada on May 25, 1953.
A 280mm nuclear shell was fired 10km into the desert by the M65 Atomic Cannon, detonating in the air, about 500 feet above the ground, with a resulting 15 kiloton explosion.
The flash of the exploding nuclear warhead of an air-to-air rocket is shown as a bright sun in the eastern sky at 7:30 a.m. July 19, 1957 at Indian Springs Air Force Base, some 30 miles away from the point of detonation. A Scorpion, sister ship of the launching aircraft, is in the foreground.
This post was edited on 1/25/13 at 10:55 pm
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:12 pm to IonaTiger
saw a documentary on Emmett Till judging by the image painted by his mom and aunt,, he was an a-hole.
of course he was martyred at this point but truthfully his family struggled to find something nice to say about him
does not excuse what happened to him by any measure
of course he was martyred at this point but truthfully his family struggled to find something nice to say about him
does not excuse what happened to him by any measure
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:20 pm to OWLFAN86
Oh yeah, by all means. They warned him before he left, but for any black kid to walk into a white store in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, etc., in the 1950s and whistle at a white woman was like pointing a pistol at a cop - you knew what was coming next.
Like you said, though, it doesn't justify what they did.
Like you said, though, it doesn't justify what they did.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:23 pm to HarryBalzack
Front Street, Juneau 1908. "All White Help."
Japanese bombing of Unalaska/Dutch Harbor in WWII that killed 25. Japanese launched two bombing attacks from air craft carriers on Dutch, and occupied two of the Aleutian Islands.
Japanese bombing of Unalaska/Dutch Harbor in WWII that killed 25. Japanese launched two bombing attacks from air craft carriers on Dutch, and occupied two of the Aleutian Islands.
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:31 pm to HarryBalzack
Right click and select "view image" for enlarged photos.
1911 Brooklyn Dodgers
1913 Brooklyn Dodgers
1914 Boston Red Sox
1913 Washington Senators
Philadelphia "Athletics", Champions of the World, 1913
1905 N.Y. Giants team
1905 Pittsburgh Pirates
1909 Pittsburgh base ball club, National League champions
1909 Detroit base ball club
1910 Cleveland Base Ball players
1909 St. Louis Browns
1909 St. Louis Cardinals
1911 Brooklyn Dodgers
1913 Brooklyn Dodgers
1914 Boston Red Sox
1913 Washington Senators
Philadelphia "Athletics", Champions of the World, 1913
1905 N.Y. Giants team
1905 Pittsburgh Pirates
1909 Pittsburgh base ball club, National League champions
1909 Detroit base ball club
1910 Cleveland Base Ball players
1909 St. Louis Browns
1909 St. Louis Cardinals
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:42 pm to Duckie
During World War II, Camp Ruston was one of the largest prisoner of war camps in the United States. At its peak in October, 1943, the camp held 4,315 prisoners. The camp was built by the local T.L. James Company on 770 acres about seven miles northwest of Ruston, Louisiana in 1942
My dad said that he would see the prison trains going through Ruston we he was a kid and everyone thought it was strange to see white men, even though they were prisoners, picking cotton
My dad said that he would see the prison trains going through Ruston we he was a kid and everyone thought it was strange to see white men, even though they were prisoners, picking cotton
This post was edited on 1/25/13 at 10:44 pm
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:47 pm to HarryBalzack
1908 Yale-West Point football game, line-up of Yale men
VIRGINIA P.I. VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM
Ferry Field, Ann Arbor, Mich., Pennsylvania vs. Michigan, Nov. 16, 1907
1925 Big Game, Stanford 26 - U. of C. 14, Stanford Stadium, Nov. 21st, 1925
1913 - Purdue 7 - Wisconsin 7
1928 Georgetown, Wash. & Lee game
1914 Notre Dame football squad
1913 Purdue squad
VIRGINIA P.I. VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM
Ferry Field, Ann Arbor, Mich., Pennsylvania vs. Michigan, Nov. 16, 1907
1925 Big Game, Stanford 26 - U. of C. 14, Stanford Stadium, Nov. 21st, 1925
1913 - Purdue 7 - Wisconsin 7
1928 Georgetown, Wash. & Lee game
1914 Notre Dame football squad
1913 Purdue squad
Posted on 1/25/13 at 10:59 pm to Duckie
Andy Warhol gun shot wound.
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