EVB2923595: A 30 year old polio patient wearing a chest respirator on a standing bed. This relieves pressure on the back from the horizontal bed of iron lungs. The nurse checks the patient's blood pressure as he moves into a vertical position. Jefferson Davis Hospital, Houston, Texas. 1953 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2923634: Joseph (Joe Bananas) Bonanno arrives at Federal Courthouse in New York on May 17, 1966 to surrender to federal authorities 19 months after his disappearance. Bonanno had been the object of a worldwide manhunt since Oct. 21, 1964, when he was reportedly kidnaped at gunpoint on the eve of his scheduled appearance before a rackets grand jury / Bridgeman Images
EVB2923652: Joseph Valachi begins his testimony before the Senate Investigations Subcommittee. Valachi agreed to testify on the workings of the underworld crime empire, 'Cosa Nostra', as he said it was called. In the foreground is Sen. John McClellan who cups his oar to listen. Oct. 1, 1963 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2925088: Boris Pasternak, Russian writer was awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature. When historical novel, 'Dr. Zhivago' was refused publication in the USSR, it was smuggled into Western Europe and published in 1957. The Soviet government pressured him to decline the Prize, but his descendants accepted it his name 1988 / Bridgeman Images