EVB2924437: Gene Tunney and wife Polly Lauder Tunney in formal attire. He is wearing a dress uniform of the Marine Corps. Tunney served in the Marine Corps branch of the Connecticut State Militia. The couple married on Oct. 3, 1928, on the condition that Tunney retire from professional boxing. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924440: Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first state governor in U.S. History from 1925 to 1927. Her husband, William Ross, the progressive Democratic Governor of Wyoming died of appendicitis in 1924. When Democratic Party nominated Nellie to run for Governor in 1924, she won without campaigning and served for a two year term. Photo by Bachrach. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924476: A somber Jacqueline Cochran, owner of the P-51C Mustang, that crashed in the Thompson Trophy Race. Sept 5, 1949. Pilot Bill Odum was killed, as were a young mother and her toddler, when the plane flew into a house in Berea, a suburb of Cleveland. The fatal crash contributed to the air races suspension. - / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924436: Gene Tunney, and Mrs. Tunney at Churchill Downs for the running of the Kentucky Derby. May 4, 1946. The former Polly Lauder was a Connecticut socialite and Carnegie heiress whose secret romance and subsequent marriage to the heavyweight boxing champion was a 1920s headline love story. / Bridgeman Images
EVB2923633: Joseph Bonanno arriving at Federal Court in New York on May 17, 1966. His attorney asked the Judge to force the government to produce a bill of particulars in the obstruction of justice charge against Bonanno. Bonanno disappeared in October 1964, the day before he was to testify before a grand jury investigating organized crime / Bridgeman Images
EVB2923837: President Kennedy talks with Gen. Douglas MacArthur (left). They were at the National Football Hall of Fame dinner at the Waldorf Astoria. In his speech, the President lamented that America's number one national sport seems to be sitting and watching somebody else get exercise. Dec. 5, 1961 / Bridgeman Images