Historical images - Images that made history

[Remove Goat]

A photo of H.P. Lovecraft and a cat, believed to be his pet cat Nigger-Man

 

[Jeb-sama]

Berlin bombers accidently drop one on their fellow burgers. The plane crashed (with no survivors) after losing a tail wing

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Postcards sent to former Untouchable Eliot Ness when he was investigating the Cleveland Torso Murders, supposedly from the murderer himself. The murderer was never caught.

 

[Carlos Thin]

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Postcards sent to former Untouchable Eliot Ness when he was investigating the Cleveland Torso Murders, supposedly from the murderer himself. The murderer was never caught.

They look like Zodiac letters

 

[AnOminous]

A photo of H.P. Lovecraft and a cat, believed to be his pet cat Nigger-Man
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Nigger-Man was a kitten when Lovecraft was a young boy. Also Nigger-Man was, surprisingly enough, a black cat. So that probably isn't Nigger-Man, although Lovecraft loved cats his entire life.

(The fictional cat in "Rats in the Walls" was named after the real cat.)

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Richard Nixon meets Robocop during a promotion of the Robocop VHS tape launch, 1988

 

[ICametoLurk]

German Coin about the French Occupation of the Rhine in which they used African troops. It mocks how the French used Blacks as troops while saying they supported Liberty, Equality, and all that and also Black's Big Black Cock and that white women were enslaved to it.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

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Postcards sent to former Untouchable Eliot Ness when he was investigating the Cleveland Torso Murders, supposedly from the murderer himself. The murderer was never caught.

Looks like something John Bulla would do.

 

[SparklyFetuses]

Valentine's Day massacre, which occurred in 1929.

According to one of the coroners, 20 to 25 bullets were found in each of the 7 bodies.

C. H. Goddard and Herman N. Bundesen look over machine guns believed to be used in the massacre.

Al Capone controlled Chicago's underworld with some murders attributed to him and his homies, including the Valentine's Day massacre.

Gangster brothers Frank and Peter Gusenberg's funeral, which held 4 days after they got murdered.

Spoiler: The victims' corpses. NSFW

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Johnny Carson, 1965

Audie Murphy, the most decorated US hero of WWII, early 1950s.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Famous journalist and regular panelist member of What's My Line, Dorothy Kilgallen. Her life was ended when she was putting together a tell all book about the JFK assassination and her murder has been considered by the public to be suspicious considering her connection to the JFK investigation. It's believed that a mafia member in New Orleans by the name of Carlos Marcello was behind her murder because it's believed that she was going to link him as the mastermind behind Kennedy's murder.
Kilgallen died weeks before a planned second trip to New Orleans for a meeting with a secret informant, telling a friend it was “cloak and daggerish.”


“I’m going to break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century,” she told her lawyer.

After she mysteriously died all of her investigation and notes disappeared from her home and the book was never published.

 

[sad cowboy cat]

>Eastern German man’s 1st purchase of a porn movie on a street market in reunified Berlin, 1990

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

>Eastern German man’s 1st purchase of a porn movie on a street market in reunified Berlin, 1990

After decades of seperation, Germans could finally come together.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

US soldiers pinned down by sniper fire in Worms, Germany, 1945

Spoiler: NSFW

 

[SparklyFetuses]

On July 17th 1981, 2 walkways collapsed within the Hyatt Regency Kansas City Hotel, killing 114 people and injuring 216 others. The fatally injured received morphine to ease their pain, and a firefighter even had to amputate a survivor's leg to free him.

Some time after, investigators found out that changes on the walkway's steel tie rods' design were the cause of the disaster.

Spoiler: NSFW due to bloody mess and crushed people

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

On July 17th 1981, 2 walkways collapsed within the Hyatt Regency Kansas City Hotel, killing 114 people and injuring 216 others. The fatally injured received morphine to ease their pain, and a firefighter even had to amputate a survivor's leg to free him.

Some time after, investigators found out that changes on the walkway's steel tie rods' design were the cause of the disaster.

Spoiler: NSFW due to bloody mess and crushed people

Reminds me of the damaged highway in the Loma Prieta earthquake where they had to cut a dead woman's body in half to get her son out of the car.

When 1.5 miles of Interstate 880’s upper roadway buckled and slammed down on a lower tier jammed with rush hour traffic, it was assumed that hundreds of people were crushed to death. One little boy would surely have died at the scene were it not for the heroic efforts of the rescuers who rushed to his aid.

Patrick Wallace, 31, a worker at a nearby paper products company in the industrial neighborhood, was the first to hear children’s screams filtering through the jumbled slabs of concrete. After scrambling up the elevated structure, he could make out two children still alive, but trapped in a dilapidated red car. He yelled for assistance and stayed with the children until help arrived. Rescuers were able to extricate Cathy Berumen, 8, in fair condition with head injuries, but her brother Julio, 6, could not be freed.

The boy was pinned in the wrecked car with the bodies of his mother, Pety, and an unidentified driver, when Dr. Dan Allen, a first-year surgical intern, crawled between the precariously balanced highway decks to reach him. Allen, 27, was one of many hospital doctors who hit the streets to help wherever needed; despite the aftershocks that threatened to bury him in another collapse, he crawled through a gap that, he estimated, ranged in height from “three or four feet to maybe 14 or 18 inches.” Later joined by two other doctors, Allen was able to stabilize the boy until pediatric surgeon James Betts could climb a fire truck’s ladder to the suspended ruins.

Though Betts, 41, is a member of the California Medical Association’s Committee on Earthquake Preparedness, nothing could have fully prepared him for the carnage he found. “There was an airport transport van right next to the car, and there were four or five people who were killed still in there,” says Betts. “And there was another car that had been crushed into less than two feet of space. The abutment had directly fallen into the [little boy’s] car,” killing his mother and the driver instantly. “They were almost crushed in half.” Julio “was pinned underneath the full weight of the concrete, which had crushed the car. His mother was lying on top of him and to the side.”

Julio was in shock and was given morphine, but from time to time, “He’d just wake up and cry and run his hands over his mother’s face,” says Allen. One rescue worker said the little boy appeared to be trying to comfort her. At other times, says Betts, “He was screaming, but he’s Asian, so none of us could understand him or talk to him.”

After about two hours of unavailing attempts to free Julio with pneumatic tools—including the jaws of life, a pincer-like device used to cut crash victims from auto wreckage—his rescuers turned to their last resort: They would have to amputate his right leg. But to get close enough, they first had to perform a difficult task. “And so one of the team took a chain saw and cut the woman in half and extricated that part that was on the passenger’s side,” says Betts. “There’s no doubt in my mind now that it was the correct decision.”

Betts bellied forward on a board and, working with a scalpel in near-darkness, reached through twisted steel and shards of glass to amputate Julio’s right leg at the knee. “I couldn’t get clamps on it,” he says. “I had to put my finger on it to hold the artery.”

Julio was rushed to Oakland’s Children’s Hospital, where Betts and a team of surgeons fought desperately to save his badly mangled left leg. After the operation, Betts, a Vermont native who is married but has no children, decided not to go home but to stay on and watch over his tiny patient. Julio’s father, Pastor Berumen, who was not in the car, soon joined the vigil. By the next day, when Julio underwent further surgery, his condition remained critical.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

30 000 Russians queue for the first McDonald's in the USSR on January 30th 1990

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

A colorized photo. US Marine Private First Class Paul E. Ison of the 1st Marine Division runs through Japanese fire at an area nicknamed "Death Valley” during the battle of Okinawa, Japan. May 1945.

 

[Stasi]

Some Victorian era mugshots I saw in a recent BBC article.

Includes a shot of a man sentenced to 9 months for stealing a library book. Victorian justice system did not fuck around.

Spoiler: Images

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Old ads from Soldier of Fortune magazine: