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Lie Detector Test

Date: 12 04 1931
Description: Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case.
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President Carter, Up Close and Personal

Date: 1979
Description: President Jimmy Carter shaking hands in Wausau, while the Secret Service (left) keeps watch.
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Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald

Date: 11 24 1963
Description: Original UPI Wirephoto transmission. Caption reads: "Dallas: This is the complete negative of the dramatic scene captured by Times Herald Staff Photographe...
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Obey and Law Enforcement

Date: 1963
Description: State Assemblyman David Obey, Marathon County Sheriff Louis Gianali and Harvey Woodward looking at a map. Harvey Woodward was a veteran of law enforcement ...
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Copyright Hearings

Date: 1965
Description: A view of subcommittee 3 during copyright hearings.
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Sheriff Vernon Leslie Honors Richard Green for Capture of FBI's Most Wanted

Date: 12 23 1964
Description: Sheriff Vernon Leslie, left, presenting an award to Richard Green, 1143 E. Dayton Street, for his part in the capture of Raymond Wyngaard, one of the FBI's...
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Deputy Attorney General John Bowers

Date: 01 05 1965
Description: John H. Bowers being sworn in by Judge Nathan Heffernan as Wisconsin Deputy Attorney General.
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Deputy Attorney General of the United States Ramsey Clark Speaks at Madison Banquet

Date: 10 26 1965
Description: Ramsey Clark, Deputy Attorney General of the United States, speaks at a banquet in Madison at the Park Motor Inn on the Square. Clark detailed a three-pron...
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Police Handling Crime Tools

Date: 02 01 1958
Description: Two police detectives or officers, one handling hacksaw blades and the other inspecting rope, investigating a possible burglary using these items. They are...
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Madison Police Cadet Training

Date: 11 21 1958
Description: A policeman and two police cadets examine a large file of folders and papers containing warrants to violators who ignore parking and traffic arrest tickets...
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First Radar Police Cars in State

Date: 1940
Description: Two men are standing near a car, with the man on the right wearing a police uniform. A wired device is sitting on the hood of the car and both men are look...
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Gun Inspection

Date: 05 05 1966
Description: A man in a suit is holding and looking at a Thompson submachine gun. Another Thompson and a pump-action shotgun are hanging on the wall. Caption reads: "AN...

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