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EVB2937025: Jesse James rides for his life through Shieldsville, Minnesota, after the disastrous Northfield Minnesota bank robbery, which netted nothing, left two bank employees murdered, two robbers killed, and Jim Younger wounded. The three Younger brothers were captured but Frank and Jesse escaped. September 7, 1876 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937039: Jesse and Frank James, Cole, John, and Bob Younger, robbed the Hot Springs Stage on January 15, 1974. They robbed the passengers and the mail bags, collecting ,000. One of the gang, asked if any of the passengers had fought for the Confederacy. G. R. Crump answered yes, which caused the robbers to return his valuables / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937042: J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1940. Under his leadership the FBI was established and over the next 32 years, he would hold the post, becoming so powerful that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson dared not fire him, Harris & Ewing (1905-45) / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937056: John Scopes (1900-1970), a young lawyer and substitute teacher, in coordination with the ACLU, deliberately violated Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools. His act triggered the famous Monkey Trial, or Scopes trial followed. 1925 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937067: Louis 'Lepke' Buchalter, center, handcuffed to J. Edgar Hoover (left), at entrance to courthouse in New York City in 1939-40. With a ,000 reward on his head, he was tricked into surrendering to Hoover by a 'friend,' Moey Dimples. Buchalter was executed on March 4, 1944 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937094: Adam Worth (1844-1902), the famous thief, sits facing the Pinkerton brothers on the Hot Springs Stage. Worth is small figure on front seat. In his last years, 'the Napoleon of Crime' collaborated with Pickerton, to record the history of his life, and negotiate the return of a stolen painting, THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. c. 1900 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937122: Suffragists Catherine Flanagan (left) and Madeleine Watson (right) of the militant National Woman's Party being arrested as they picket the White House East Gate. Both were sentenced to 30 days in Occoquan Workhouse, a prison where they were sometimes physically abused, forced if they refused to eat, and made to live in filthy conditions / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937127: National Woman's Party activist, Kate Heffelfinger, wrapped in blanket, is supported after release the Washington, D.C. jail, the Occoquan Workhouse, where suffragists were sometimes physically abused, forced if they refused to eat, and made to live in filthy conditions. c. 1917 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2937147: Young women in a tableau as ancient warriors perform at Seneca Falls, N.Y. seventy-fifth anniversary Equal Rights celebration on July 20, 1923. After the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote, broad based feminist activist waned for forty years / Bridgeman Images