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Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)
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There was a TV panel show in 1950s America called I've Got a Secret. Essentially it was that someone would come out in front of the panel, talk about themselves, and it was up to the panel to ask questions and figure out why the person is there/what they have done. On this particular instance, they have something astonishing - a 96 year old man who was at the Ford Theatre when he was a child... the night Lincoln was assassinated.
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Deleted User wrote: »Somewhat relevant -
There was a TV panel show in 1950s America called I've Got a Secret. Essentially it was that someone would come out in front of the panel, talk about themselves, and it was up to the panel to ask questions and figure out why the person is there/what they have done. On this particular instance, they have something astonishing - a 96 year old man who was at the Ford Theatre when he was a child... the night Lincoln was assassinated.
He died due to that fall he had in the hotel before he went on the TV show.0 -
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But to be fair they gave him some pipe tobacco as he wasn't a ciggie smoker.Interesting to note the blatant advertising of Winston cigarettes on the desk and also on the desk of the panel!
Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.
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Probably posted before but seen as Fr Alec Reid passed away today it is worth a re-post.
A Catholic priest administering last rites to a dead/almost dead Protestant British Soldier at the height of the troubles and in the middle of a huge Republican funeral takes some guts.
RIP.
EDIT: Credit to Aru who first posted it in this thread #670 on 12-12-2009.0 -
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gerrybbadd wrote: »Is this a reconstruction image? I've never seen this photo before
I suspect that this is not an original photograph......0 -
gerrybbadd wrote: »Is this a reconstruction image? I've never seen this photo before
No i believe its genuine, its just not as common an image. Alot of the images used are cleaned up stills from this video (or at least are from an almost identical viewpoint)
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The saddest thing about that moment is that apparently Jackie wasn't trying to escape out the back of the car after the bullet hit his head. She was trying to retrieve a piece of his skull that had landed on the hood of the car. http://www.newser.com/story/143414/chilling-memoir-jackie-tried-to-save-piece-of-jfks-skull.htmlIn a chilling new memoir of the day JFK was assassinated, a former Secret Service agent said Jackie Kennedy leaped onto the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate bid to save her husband by attempting to retrieve a piece of his skull. She then climbed back into the seat and cradled Kennedy's head in her arms, saying, "Jack, Jack, what have they done to you?"
You can see in the original Zapruder film right at the end that she looks like she's getting back into the car.
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Didn't shake anything. But I thought it belongs in this thread.
There are two inscriptions on the prison's perimeter: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights," and "All persons deprived of their liberty shall be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person."
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Possibly a discussion for another thread.
Nice prison vs recidivism rates in Ireland
http://www.iprt.ie/contents/2516
So our prisons don't change behaviour in 4 out of 5 of them.The highest rate of recidivism was among those who had served a sentence for burglary and related offences (79.5%).
Didn't realise it was that highThe lowest rates of recidivism were among those originally imprisoned for homicide (26%) and sexual offences (29%).
One in four murderers gets caught and found guilty of killing again. :eek:
You could even work out how many lives would be saved by having longer sentences. :mad:
Norwegian Prison system - The Daily Fail has nice pics
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1384308/Norways-controversial-cushy-prison-experiment--catch-UK.html0 -
Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
No. One in four murderers went on to commit some other offense, but not necessarily murder. Could be a traffic violation, tax evasion, not paying their TV license etc.0 -
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A young stowaway, Keith Sapsford, 14, falls 200 feet to his death yesterday from a Japan Airlines jet airliner taking off from Sydney, Australia, and bound for Tokyo.
Photo was taken by Sydney amateur photographer John Gilpin. The boy had run away from a "boys' town" in Sydney Saturday to see the world. He apparently stowed away in the wheel housing of the airliner several hours before the plane took off. When the door of the wheel housing was opened after takeoff so the wheel could be retracted, the boy fell to his death.
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Da Shins Kelly wrote: »Maybe it didn't shake the world exactly, but a beautiful photo of people celebrating independence on O' Connell Bridge at midnight before Easter Sunday, April 1949.
i thought we gained independence in 1922 ? 0 -
i thought we gained independence in 1922 ?
Republic of Ireland Act 1948
Those people are celebrating it coming into force and the Ireland Act 1949 being passed by Britain.0 -
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