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
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
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
EVB2923946: Backyard furnace in China during the disastrous 'Great Leap Forward.' The government encouraged peasants to make small quantities of steel in primitive backyard blast furnace. Over one million smelters were set up in the 'battle for steel'. The results were chaotic and uneconomic, and took farmers away from the fields. March 1962 / Bridgeman Images