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
EVB2924416: Spencer Tracy and his deaf son, John Ten Broeck Tracy, at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Photo was taken when Tracy's was starring in John Wexley's play, THE LAST MILE, from Feb.-Oct. 1930 on Broadway. After 8 years of obscurity, Tracy hit stardom and Hollywood took notice. / 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
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
EVB2924454: Donald Campbell was killed his jet powered boat, Bluebird K7, on Lake Coniston. Jan. 4, 1967. Campbell died strapped into cockpit of his bullet-shaped speedboat when it somersaulted 60 feet into the air at more than 300 mph. 1. Bluebird K7 begins to leave the surface of the water. 2. Boat leaves water at sharp angle like jet plane taking off. 3. Craft reaches near vertical position. 4. Bluebird twists and begins downward plunge. - / Bridgeman Images
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
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