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| Date: | 11 28 1949 |
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| Description: | County officers and state crime lab officials searching for clues in the pasture near Fitch Hatchery road, where Bernice Johnston was beaten and abandoned.... |
| Date: | 12 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Scene along the Yahara River where the body of Max Hobert, a Madison bartender, was found. |
| Date: | 12 16 1949 |
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| Description: | The door to the Dane County District Attorney's office. District Attorney Robert W. Arthur is having the door examined for fingerprints after his claim tha... |
| Date: | 02 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Police Investigator Ralph Nedderman is shown examining the torch-burned safe at the John Deere Farmers Implement Co., 110 N. Thornton Avenue. Two other loc... |
| Date: | 02 15 1950 |
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| Description: | George Beecraft, 23, of 121 S. Marquette Street is shown (right) pleading not guilty before Superior Judge Roy H. Proctor to charges of safecracking at the... |
| Date: | 05 18 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the George "Butch" King murder trial jury. King, accused of the murder of Sadie Jackson, was declared not guilty by reason of insanity a... |
| Date: | 09 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Roy Bryant, one of the two men charged with the murder of Emmett Till who had allegedly whistled at Bryant's wife, Carolyn. She sits at Bryant's right, and... |
| Date: | 09 19 1955 |
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| Description: | Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam, (left to right) with their attorney on the opening day of their trial for the murder of Emmett Till. The 14-ye... |
| Date: | 09 1955 |
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| Description: | Rev. Moses Wright and his son Simon outside the Sumner courthouse where two white men were on trial for the murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till (Wright's nep... |
| Date: | 09 22 1955 |
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| Description: | Willie Reed, an 18-year-old "surprise" witness who bravely testified during the murder trial of 14-year-old Emmett Till, correctly identifying the white de... |
| Date: | 09 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Mamie Till Bradley, the mother of Emmett Till, weeps during his funeral. The 14-year-old Till was murdered while visiting relatives in Mississippi for alle... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | A group of African Americans in the courtroom at the Emmett Till murder trial. The 14-year-old Till, who was visiting Mississippi from Chicago, was murdere... |
| Date: | 05 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector.... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Cagney as Danny Kean in a scene still from "Picture Snatcher" (WB, 1933). |
| Date: | 12 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Homer T. Cochrane, owner of the Club Royal at 112 E. Washington Avenue, is shown eying one of the empty cash registers in his tavern shortly after armed ba... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a statue of Captain Myles Standish, a military leader of the Plymouth Colony. Begun in 1892, the statue depicts Standish grasping his sword in... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | View of base of the Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun in a factory, possibly International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun on display. A sign on the right identifies it as a 20mm anti-aircraft gun manufactured by the Pontiac Motor Division. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Group of men, some with shovels and axes, setting up a gun on a artillery range. A large group of men in the background are setting up more guns. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Large group of marines are outdoors firing from a sitting position at a firing range, possibly at a Marine Corps firing range at La Jolla, California. |
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