EVB2925054: Rep. Jeannette Rankin of Montana, in House during Resolution of War Declaration on Germany and Italy. Dec. 11, 1941. She was only one in Congress who abstained from the vote. Seated in front are Rep. Charles Easton of New Jersey and John Tabor of New York / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925114: Senator William Proxmire at a news conference on Dec. 26, 1969. Proxmire was elected to the Senate on August 28, 1957, to fill Wisconsin seat vacated by the death of Joseph McCarthy, on May 2, 1957. He served through 1989 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925156: Father Coughlan spoke to a crowd of 17,000 in Madison Square Garden, New York. May 22, 1935. He appealed to union men to join his National Union for Social Justice / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925159: Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, theologian of Catholic University Washington, D.C. Monsignor Sheen hosted the night-time radio program, THE CATHOLIC HOUR, from 1930 to 1950 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925186: Senator Frank Church, Idaho Democrat, Jan. 28, 1975. He was Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities. In the wake of the Watergate Scandal, the Church Committee, exposed decades of illegal activities of the CIA and FBA / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925195: Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins watching a Washington-Yankee ball game. April 29, 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925204: Billiards World Champion Willie Hoppe's hand was is insured for ,000. He won 51 world titles between 1906 and 1952 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925210: H.V. Kaltenborn at the CBS microphone, c. 1938-1940 as Europe moved toward war. During the Munich Crisis, in Sept. 1938, he slept in the CBS studio and reported day and night from until the day after the signing of the Four Power Agreement on Sept. 29th. He played himself in two movies, MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON (1939) and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951). T / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925219: Jomo Kenyatta, future President of Kenya, in a monkey skin given him by Kikuyu (Gikuyu) tribesmen. Aug. 21, 1961. Kikuyu was the largest ethnic group in Kenya, but still represented less than 25% of the population. As leader of Kenya's KANU (Kenya African National Union) Kenyatta advocated, unified state with a strong central government over an ethnic-federal state favored by his opposition / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925225: James T. Lee, 86-year-old maternal grandfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Feb, 13, 1964. He was the son of Irish immigrants from Cork, worked his way through City College and Columbia University to become a physician / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925255: Carlo Gambino Mafia 'Boss of All Bosses' in New York, c. 1972 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925264: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, her nose heavily bandaged, recuperating at her home. India's President, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, visited her on Feb. 13, 1967. Mrs. Gandhi was struck by a stone thrown by a heckler during a campaign rally / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925288: Presidents Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Gerald Ford meeting in Martinique. May 4, 1976. Economic issues of unemployment, inflation, monetary policy and energy conservation were on their agenda / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925291: Legendary movie director D. W. Griffith broadcasting, 'D. W. Griffith's Hollywood.' c. 1930. The NBC radio program was a review of his life and history of Hollywood. The master silent movie director of the 1910s and early 1920s, worked on few films after 1925. In 1936, he was given a special Oscar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925300: President Lon Nol at a press conference at the Presidential Palace on Aug. 29, 1973. After he was deposed by Lon Nol, Prince Sihanouk allied himself with the Khmer Rouge, who controlled the majority of Cambodian territory in 1973 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925032: Pope Pius XII standing before his Sedia Gestatoria, a portable throne carried by twelve footmen. July 19, 1951. He was carried into one of the Vatican's Apostolic Halls to bless pilgrims / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925086: Boris Pasternak, Soviet Era Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. c. 1950 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925098: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins addressing leaders of Labor and Industry Conference. Washington, D.C., May 4, 1937. She asked they cooperate with state and federal governments to avert strikes and lockouts as she developed formula for collective bargaining under the Wagner Labor Relations Act / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925143: Women attending the National Convention of the Woman Suffrage Association. Philadelphia, Nov. 21 -26, 1912. 1_Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, President. 2_Mrs. William M. Ivins. 3_ Miss Lucy Anthony. 4_Donald Booker, Baltimore. 5_Katharine Hepburn, Hartford, Connecticut. 6_ Mary Ware Dennett, Treasurer. 7_Susan Fitzgerald, Boston. 8_Jesse Ashley, Secretary. Inset square_Jane Addams / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925155: Father Charles Coughlin, 74, the once famous radio priest, ended 20 years of official silence. On May 26, 1966 he held a news conference at his Shrine of the Little Flower, and soon retired / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925158: Charles Coughlin had a large staff to open and sort 80,000 letters he received weekly. April 1933 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925203: Willie Hoppe, carom billiards champion in 1912. He was planning a rematch with George Sutton, who had arms below the elbows. Their second match would take place at the Hotel Astor, NYC / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925254: Carlo Gambino, an Italian-born American gangster was boss of the Gambino crime family. c. 1963 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925266: Re-elected Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with her Deputy Prime Minister, Morarji Desai. March 20, 1967. Desai resigned from the Gandhi cabinet in 1969, splitting the Congress Party into two factions. Desai succeeded her as Prime Minister from 1977-79 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925272: Dr. George Gallup, American public-opinion statistician who created the Gallup Poll. 1956. In the 1930s, he was a Professor of Journalism at Columbia University and Director of Research at the Ad Agency, Young and Rubicam. 1935 he formed his own polling company, the American Institute of Public Opinion which created the Gallup Poll / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925275: Anna Petillo, estranged wife of racketeer, Vito Genovese, was questioned by Mercer County grand jury. They asked about eight New Jersey men, including her husband, who attended a gangland convention in Apalachin, New York. Dec. 17, 1957 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925296: Harry F. Guggenheim, US ambassador to Cuba, and his wife, Alicia Patterson Field. They were at the Havana American Jockey Club during the races. December 23, 1931. Together they purchased the a newspaper in Hempstead, NYC, which became the Pulitzer Prize winning 'Newsday' in 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925034: Pope Pius XII addressed a crowd of 150,000 from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, March 24, 1953 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925043: Anthony (Tony Pro) Provenzano told newsmen he was not a Mafia figure but he was a truck driver. He was outside his luxurious home on the Intercostal waterway in Florida. August 5, 1975. Provenzano, a member of the Genovese crime family, was a VP of a Teamsters Union local in Union City, New Jersey / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925064: Speaker Sam Rayburn gets a kiss on the head from Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson. Jan. 6, 1956. The two Texans Congressional leaders were celebrating Rayburn's 76th birthday / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925085: Louella Parsons and Walter Winchell, syndicated gossip columnists in print and on radio. Their NBC radio shows are scheduled on Sunday nights in August 1945. Winchell's 'Jergens' Journal' airs at 9:00 PM followed by 'The Louella Parsons Show at 9:15 PM / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925103: Britain's Prince Philip, (2nd from left) at an American school at St. Cloud, France. c. 1931 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925112: Dr. Jean Piccard was engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist. October 25, 1934. His inventions were used in balloon flight, aircraft, and spacecraft. By L. Oeyen, Cleveland press photographer / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925139: Jean Acker, estranged wife of actor Rudolph Valentino. They married on Nov. 6, 1919, and immediately separated. She locked him out of their hotel bedroom on their wedding night. Valentino filed for divorce in Mexico. He married Alla Nazimova on May 13, 1922 in Mexicali, Mexico, before his divorce was legally final / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925145: Jane Addams (left) received the Mary Carrie Thomas Award of Bryn Mawr College. May 3, 1931. She was recognized for her social worker, and leadership for women's suffrage and world peace. In center is Marian Edwards Park, president of Bryn Mawr College. At right is President Emeritus Mary Carey Thomas of Bryn Mawr College, in whose honor the prize was founded / Bridgeman Images

EVB2925166: Fulton J. Sheen following a private audience Pope Paul VI at the Vatican, March 17, 1971. Sheen was a celebrated radio and television priest from 1930 to mid-1960s until a dispute with Cardinal Spellman over money. Subsequently, his television work was discouraged, his leadership at the Society for the Propagation of the Faith was terminated, and he was reassigned to Rochester, New York / Bridgeman Images