EVB2948366: Spanish Fascist dictator Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler meet for the first time, Oct. 23, 1940. In their 9 hour conference, Hitler urged Franco join him in World War 2 conflict. Franco countered that his country needed food, weapons, and gasoline before he could enter the war. Spain remained neutral throughout WW2 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948442: Rotocycle, 250-pound collapsible, one-man helicopter in demonstration flight in 1957-58. It was developed for the Marines to use for observation, liaison, and maneuvers. The Marines rejected it because of its slow speed of 52 mph, minimal range of 40 miles, vulnerability to small-arms fire, and the lack of visual references on the structure causing the pilot spatial disorientation / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948481: Attorney Gen. Robert H. Jackson, speaking into a Dictaphone on July 12, 1940. Dictaphones were voice recording devices invented in the 1880. Until the late 1940s, they used wax cylinders for voice recording. Robert H. Jackson, was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1941 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948504: Henry Mencken testified, 'no civilized country can condone lynching,' on Feb. 2, 1935. The journalist and social critic was before the Senate Judiciary sub-committee hearing on the Anti-Lynching bill. Between 1920 and 1930 the House of Representative passed three strong bills, but each was blocked by the Senate's Southern Democratic voting block / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948506: Herbert S. Agar arriving in New York on the S.S. Olympic, with his wife, June 5, 1934. Ager won the 1934 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE, a study of the six early U.S. Presidents. His wife, Eleanor Carroll Chilton was the author of two novels, SHADOWS WAITING, 1926, and BURNING FOUNTAIN, 1929 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948055: Men and women picketing against the use of tax dollars for the development of nuclear weapons. New York City, March 15, 1950. On Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman directed the Atomic Agency Commission to continue development of all forms of atomic energy weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or super-bomb / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948071: Fire fighters set up a hose amid smoking rubble following September 11th terrorist attack on World Trade Center. At left is still standing WTC 6. At right is the destroyed North pedestrian bridge over West Side Highway (West St.). The water stream is aimed in-between, toward the burning pile of the collapsed WTC1 (North Tower). New York City, Sept. 11, 2001 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2948099: A 'bucket brigade' works to carefully clear debris of the World Trade Center, Sept. 14, 2001. Only 13 people were from rescued alive from under the debris, and they were found within the first 24 hours. New York City, after September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. U.S. Navy Photo by Jim Watson / Bridgeman Images