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EVB2924712: U.S. Ambassador to the UN, George Bush in the Steering Committee of the General Assembly. Sept. 24, 1971 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924733: President Franklin Roosevelt congratulates his new Navy Secretary, Republican Frank Knox. After World War II began in Europe, FDR established a bi-partisan Cabinet, including Knox who was the 1936 Republican candidate for Vice President / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924742: Malcolm LaPrade, host of Cooks Radio Travelogue, broadcast from 1926 through 1939 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924745: Patience Sewell Latting was the first female Mayor of Oklahoma City, from 1971 to 1983. As mayor she supported the urban renewal of Oklahoma City. In 1967, Latting was the first women elected to the Oklahoma City Council / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924754: President Franklin Roosevelt fired Hugh Johnson for erratic behavior related to alcohol abuse in Sept. 1934 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924766: Herman's Hermits arrive in New York from a tour of Japan, Feb. 1966. At the time, the group out-ranked the Beatles in worldwide popularity polls. They were in the U.S. to promote their first motion picture musical, HOLD ON. Bottom to top: Peter, Keith, Lek, Carl, and Barry / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924802: Guatemalan poet Miguel Angel Asturia, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Asturias' most famous novels, 'El Senor Presidente', describes life under a ruthless dictator / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924814: Bruno Hauptmann with his defense counsel Egbert Rosecrans, Jan. 15 1935. Hunterdon County Courthouse, Flemington, N.J / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924826: Former Senate aide Bobby Baker (2nd from left) before the Senate Rules Committee. Feb. 25, 1964. He was questioned about his complex business dealings. Baker refused to testify or turn over his subpoenaed records to the committee / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924832: Craig Breedlove stands beside his jet car 'Spirit of America' on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. July 25, 1963. Breedlove set a new land speed record of reached 407.45 mph on Aug. 5, 1963 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924844: Watergate conspirator Bernard Barker appears before the Senate Watergate committee on May 24, 1973. He testified the Watergate burglars were looking for evidence of Cuban contributions to the campaign of Sen. George McGovern and possibly that of Senator Edward Kennedy.' / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924853: Makeup artist Ben Nye working on comedian Red Skeleton. c. 1960s / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924862: Jim Paschal was a NASCAR Grand National and Winston Cup driver. He raced from 1949 to 1972 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924865: Mohammed Mossadegh, awaits the vote of confidence in the Iranian parliament. The Majlis voted to support the Prime Minister's nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Aug. 8, 1951 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924874: Ousted Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh on trial for treason. Nov. 14, 1953. After the British-US backed coup reinstalled the Shah to absolute power, the democratically elected, now deposed Premier, stretches out on his courtroom bench despair / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924880: Iran's Crown Prince Reza marries Egyptian Princess Fawzia, March 30, 1939 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924889: Shah of Iran, with Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexi Kosygin (left). Oct. 10, 1972. Iran and USSR and signed a 15 year pact for economic and technical cooperation / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924943: Clare Booth Luce at desk, c. 1947. She did not seek re-election to Congress in 1946 but remained politically active and moved further right within the Republican Party / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924973: Sophia Loren holds her son, Carlo Ponti, Jr., at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport. July 31, 1970 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925000: 46th birthday portrait of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands. April 1955 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924723: Movie star Betty Hutton with her fiance, newscaster, in Charles Martin at the Stock Club. New York City, Sept. 2, 1943. They never wed, instead she married Ted Briskin on Sept. 3, 1945 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924744: U.S. Marine, looks across into Communist Cuba from Guantanamo Naval Base Cuba. Feb. 16, 1964. The U.S. has occupied the area since it was captured from Spain in the Battle of Guantanamo Bay, during the Spanish American War in 1898 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924786: Nicholas Arevalos in protective custody after 3 years of confinement by his mother, Pauline Arevalos. His insane mother did not want her son to see women or have contact with the sinful outside world. She imprisoned him in a small area of the kitchen, in their fashionable Tulsa home where he went ungroomed and without a change of clothing for 3 years. Tulsa, Oklahoma April 5, 1973 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924792: Art Arfons on the Thompson Raceway dragstrip opens twin parachutes to decelerate speed. 1962 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924831: A New York City mother watches a televised Army McCarthy Hearing. In April 1954, the American public got a full view of Joseph McCarthy as Chairman of the Government Operations Committee in the Senate. Their reaction ended in his fall from public approval and a belated censure from the U.S. Senate in December 1954 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924840: Author Pearl Buck presents Wendell Willkie with a United China Relief Fellowship Certificate. United China Relief was founded in 1941 in NYC to raise funds to aid the Chinese people during World War II. At right is James G. Blaine / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924921: Soviet delegation leaving the Palace of Nations, Geneva, during the 'Big Four' Summit in July 1955 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924924: Retired Premier Nikita Khrushchev and his wife at a municipal election polling station. Moscow, 1965 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924936: Chinese leader and Americans together after the after the Doolittle Raid on Japan. April 19, 1942 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924939: Clara Booth Luce, during Lend Lease bill extension hearings on Feb. 16, 1943 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924951: Nicholas and Alice Roosevelt Longworth and their daughter Paulina, c. 1930. Paulina was the biological child of Senator William Borah with whom Alice had a long affair in the 1920s / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924963: Alice Roosevelt Longworth with Tricia Nixon after her engagement to Edward Cox was announced. Tricia was planning a Rose Garden wedding for June 12, 1972. 86 year old Alice was married in White House in 1906, when her father Theodore Roosevelt was President / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924966: Anita Loos and Helen Hayes were co-authors of 'Twice Over Lightly: New York Then and Now'. The 1972 book was their memoir of New York City / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924972: Sophia Loren with her son, Carlo Ponti Junior, at Cantonal Hospital in Geneva on Jan. 4, 1969 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924987: Jack Halloran, principal witnesses in the Phoenix Trunk Murders trial of Winnie Ruth Judd. c. 1932. Competition for the romantic attentions of Halloran was the suspected motive of the murders of Agnes Ann LeRoy and Hedwig Samuelson / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924999: Carriage to take Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard to sign of Statute for the Dutch kingdom. Dec. 19, 1954. 'Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands' applied to four countries of Kingdom of the Netherlands: Aruba, Curacao, and Sint Maarten and the Netherlands. This was a diminished Kingdom, as the Dutch East Indies gained their independence as Indonesia in December 1949 / Bridgeman Images