EVB2946126: U.S. Marines take cover in a deep trench as Red mortar shell lands nearby. May 12, 1952. The last two years of the Korean War, after armistice talks were started, became a stalemate along the 38th parallel. Without movement, entrenched positions developed, reminiscent of the World War 1 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2946185: American POWs released during 'Operation Big Switch' being interviewed by the press. They display their camp mascot 'Oscar' a pet magpie at 'Freedom Village', where UN repatriated POWs were processed for return to their homes. Communists call use 'Peace Village' as their name for the prisoner exchange center. Sept. 1953. Korean War, 1950-53 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2946583: John Gates, American Communist Party member and leader in 1948. At this time he was indicted under the Smith Act for being 'dedicated to the Marxist-Leninist principles of the overthrow and destruction of the Government.' He was convicted, served five years in prison, after which he became editor of the Communist Party's newspaper, 'The Daily Worker' / Bridgeman Images
EVB2946575: Gov. Eugene Talmadge (left) at a clemency hearing for six East Point Ku Klux Klansmen. Dec. 1, 1941. Prosecutor Daniel Duke brandishes bull whip used on the African American victims. Talmadge, while 'feeling sorry' for the Klansmen, did not grant clemency to the six men serving 1-3 year prison sentences for a series of floggings in suburban Atlanta. Talmadge added he participated in a similar flogging of an African-American man years before / Bridgeman Images