One of the last people to see Natalie Wood alive claimed that Robert Wagner was responsible for her death – even though police said Wagner isn’t a suspect. Now, detectives say substantial new information is allowing them to reopen the murder that’s haunted Hollywood for 30 years.
As part of a unique promotion for the 2nd season of Boardwalk Empire, HBO is running a vintage 1920s subway train on the 2/3 line in New York City.
Thomas Hoepker, Lover’s Lane, New Jersey, 1983
What iconic symbols we take for granted now are going to be utterly destroyed 20 years from now?
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On Aug. 8, 2011, the American stock market recorded its worst loss — plunging 635 points — since December 2008, fueling widespread fears of another economic meltdown. As Wall Street continues to wobble in the wake of Standard & Poor’s historic downgrade of the U.S. credit rating on Aug. 5, LIFE.com takes a look at scenes during the country’s last great economic calamity, the Great Depression.
see more — Hard Times: Life in the Depression
The original Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
Roger Ebert’s Journal: My Video Scout Larry J. Kolb writes me: “This image, taken in Mount Ida, Arkansas, shows the original salute to the flag used during the Pledge of Allegiance in U.S. schools. It was discontinued in 1942.”
John Chancellor goes mobile for the 1968 Democratic Convention.
Long before the Web, The Boston Globe had a “homepage” of sorts – its old storefront downtown. Taking advantage of its location in a heavily trafficked block of Newspaper Row, the young daily brought the news to Bostonians in a whole new way: handwritten signs.
First “That’s What She Said” Joke Ever Recorded
Michael Scott may have popularized the joke, but a very young Alfred Hitchcock was the first to say it on camera in this 1929 sound test for his film Blackmail.
“My Baby is Black!”
“Nothing you have ever seen before and nothing you have ever heard before will prepare you for the shock of ‘My Baby is Black!’”
Check out this 1981 report on the wacky future of online newspapers
The original Mr. Met paper-mache head circa 1966
![‘93 Hillary Clinton testified in front of Congress concerning the president’s health care reform proposal.
Ex-Rep (R) Dick Armey: “Mrs. Clinton let me also express my appreciation to you for the work you’ve done and your willingness to come before this committee today. And to tell you what a joy it is to see you here. I listened to the chairman’s opening statement and while I don’t share the chairman’s joy at our holding hearings on a government run health care system. I do share his intention to make the debate, a legislative process, as exciting as possible.”
Hillary Clinton: “I’m sure you will do that, Mr. Armey.” [smiling]
Dick Armey: “We’ll do the best we can.” [smiling]
Hillary Clinton: “You and Dr. Kevorkian.” [room filled with laughter]
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‘93 Hillary Clinton testified in front of Congress concerning the president’s health care reform proposal.
Ex-Rep (R) Dick Armey: “Mrs. Clinton let me also express my appreciation to you for the work you’ve done and your willingness to come before this committee today. And to tell you what a joy it is to see you here. I listened to the chairman’s opening statement and while I don’t share the chairman’s joy at our holding hearings on a government run health care system. I do share his intention to make the debate, a legislative process, as exciting as possible.”
Hillary Clinton: “I’m sure you will do that, Mr. Armey.” [smiling]
Dick Armey: “We’ll do the best we can.” [smiling]
Hillary Clinton: “You and Dr. Kevorkian.” [room filled with laughter]
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Love it. back in ‘93 HillDawg takes a bite out of then and now health care reform grim reaper Dick Armey.
1964 Brooklyn postcard with photographs of Coney Island, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.
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