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EVB2924487: DuPonts and their lawyer at Munitions probe. Pierre DuPont (left) Irenee DuPont (center) and their counsel, Colonel William J. Donovan (Wild Bill Donovan, of WW2, Office of Strategic Services), of New York, in the Senate Munitions hearing at Washington, D.C., Dec. 4, 1934 - / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924497: Billie Sol Estes sits at right as television cameras record the proceedings of his 1962 trial. On June 7, 1965, the Supreme Court reversed Estes conviction because parts of his state trial were televised. The court divided 5-4 on the question of reversal. Photo shows Texas financier Billy Sol Estes (foreground) sitting in court during his 1962 trial for fraud on Sept. 24, 1962. He later argued that camera coverage of the trial deprived him of due process. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed, and overturned the conviction. - / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924509: Father Divine, leader of Universal Peace Mission Movement at a hearing in NYC, Sept. 29, 1936. Mrs. Nina Bayliss holds a judgement for $ 6,125 against him for injuries received when a Peace Mission bus collided with her car in Aberdeen, Maryland in 1935. Divine claimed he took no part in the financial affairs of his followers. - / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924522: Father Divine, Cult leader and his 21 year old white bride, Edna Ritchings of Vancouver B.C. She agreed to the standard Peace Mission Movement celibate marriage. Newark New, Jersey, Aug. 8, 1946. Edna Ritchings, introduced as the reincarnation of Sister Penny, was also called Mother Divine, was the symbolic maintainer of the International Peace Mission movement into the 21st century. - / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924523: Father Divine followers carried ,000 in suitcases to the bank for a cashier's check. It was to purchase the Hotel Riviera, in Newark, N.J. for a new communal 'heaven', Oct. 21, 1949. It took 14 tellers 3 hours, 35 minutes to count nearly half a million dollars in , . and bills. - / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924575: Philip Habib, American career diplomat, May 4, 1970. He was head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks from 1968 to 1971. Habib was born in Bensonhurst Brooklyn to Lebanese Maronite Catholic parents. While earning a Ph.D. from Berkeley on the G.I. Bill, he was recruited into the Foreign Service in 1949. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924231: Chicago and Milwaukee youngsters are at a Communist summer camp. At Paddock Lake, Near Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Communist indoctrination joined hikes, swimming, sports as daily activities. Miss Eve Stolar, educational director of the camp, lectures on class struggle to the young campers. 1930s / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924340: 200 Quit the Bonus Army. The Federal Government offered loans to Veterans for transportation home and food on the way. Men applied for their loans at the sign reading, 'Apply Here for B.E.F. (Bonus Expeditionary Force) Railroad Tickets. Veterans Administration.' July 9, 1932 / Bridgeman Images