AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

Vice President Richard Nixon presents winners' trophy to New York's Althea Gibson, the first black woman ever to win the National Tennis Championship...

Althea Gibson smiles as she holds trophies she won by capturing the National Women's Singles Tennis Championship at the West Side Tennis Club in Fores...

Wimbledon champion Althea Gibson of New York City shows the winning form that helped her capture the U.S. National Tennis Championships at Forest Hill...

Wimbledon champion Althea Gibson of New York City backhands a drive to Mary Hawton of Australia to score a point during their quarter-final match of t...

Principal J.W. Matthews of Central High School in Little Rock Ark., talks with National Guard troops patrolling the campus, Sept. 5, 1975. Gov. Orval...

Wimbledon champion Althea Gibson of New York sends a forehand smash toward Karol Fageros of Miami Beach, for a point during their first round match in...

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are seen, Sept. 1957, dressed to attend a ball. (AP Photo)

Smiling President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines presents the

Sen.Strom Thurmond, D-SC, gives a wave as he leaves the Senate chamber, Aug .29, 1957 at end of his 24 hour, 19 minute one-man filibuster against the...

Chairman Howard W. Smith (D-Va), of the House Rules Committee has a word with newsmen at the door of the committee room, August 26, 1957. The committe...

Television star Desi Arnaz said he didn't remember ever meeting a Hollywood prostitute who testified at the trial of Confidential and Whisper magazin...

Model A Ford's brought to Greenfield Village by owners from around the nation are lined up for judging on the merits of their restoration. More than...

Model A Ford's brought to Greenfield Village by owners from around the nation are lined up for judging on the merits of their restoration. More than...

Roberto De Vicenzo and his caddie, Bill Delaney, of Chicago, look at his 15 under par score after he captured the $25,000 All-American Tourney at Tam...

Robert De Vicenzo keeps his eye on the ball as a he gets out of a trap on the 7th hole during the third round of the All-American golf tourney at Tam...

Robert De Vicenzo, a 34-year-old South American, displays no. 64, the number of strokes he used in covering the All-American tourney course in Chicago...

Ben Scott Whaley, chairman of the Historic Charleston, S.C. Foundation, stands in the hallway of Russell House, a recently restored historic home, Aug...

Nathan Leopold smiles as he reads a prepared statement to newsmen in the chapel at the Stateville Penitentiary, July 31, 1957. Leopold has served 33...

Flight crew members jump from the wing of a plane during a recent wet ditching drill held at the Coast Guard lagoon at San Francisco Airport on July 2...

Choreographer Jerome Robbins, second from left, goes through rehearsals for the upcoming Broadway musical

Foliage hides Lionel Hebert, of Lafayette, La, at the PGA tournament Friday, July 19, 1957 in Dayton, Ohio as he shoots out from base of tree onto sec...

Two passengers on the parachute ride see throngs of people on the boardwalk and beach at the Coney Island Amusement Park in Brooklyn, New York, July 1...

A general view is shown of the Bran Castle, as seen from the road where it dominates the Bran Pass in Romania, June 18, 1957. Built in 1377 but the Br...

Some of the sixteenth century furniture preserved at the Bran Castle can be seen in this view of the Castle's court hall in Romania, June 18, 1957. Bu...

Secret stairs between the first and third floors of the Bran Castle are shown in Romania, June 18, 1957. When cascades of boiling tar dropped from the...

The entrance to the dining hall and armoury of the Bran Castle is shown in Romania, June 18, 1957. (AP Photo)

An early seventeenth century fireplace is shown at the Bran Castle in Romania, June 18, 1957. Built in 1377 by the industrious Brasov people, above th...

William K. Sherwood, a Stanford University research scientist who was scheduled to appear before a House committee probing Communist

Four Democratic congressmen from the South get together to discuss the civil rights bill in Washington June17, 1957 after rejection of a proposal by...

Singer Helen O'Connell, and novelist Tom T. Chamales are shown cutting their wedding cake at the St. Moritz Hotel in New York, May 9, 1957. (AP Photo)

Robert De Vicenzo holds the Leonard trophy and a check for $5,000 after he won the Colonial Country Club National Invitation Golf Tournament in Fort W...

The top men in the 12th annual Colonial CC National Invitation Golf Tournament pose after finishing the final round in Fort Worth, Texas on May 5, 195...

Actor Robert Wagner was rushed from his airplane to four personal appearances Saturday, May 4,1957 as he arrived from Hollywood to film

Cary Grant's dines with Suzy Parker, a young actress-model in San Francisco, May 2, 1957, where they are working on a picture. (AP Photo)

This is a general view of the huge May Day parade in Red Square, Moscow, May 1, 1957. In the background is the Soviet Historical Museum and at left i...

Jim brown, Syracuse University lacrosse player, May 1957. (AP Photo)

Miiko Taka, a Japanese film star who is in Hollywood to maker her first film here, arrives at the Egyptian Theater with producer Jack Warner in Hollyw...

Jack Warner, right, the president of Warner Brothers Studios, arrives at the premiere of

French fashion designer Christian Dior is seen during a news conference at Marshall Fields and Co. in Chicago, Ill., April 9, 1957, with a mannequin b...

French fashion designer Christian Dior, facing camera at right, meets fashion editors at Marshall Field and Company in Chicago, April 9, 1957, during...

Looking over the Augusta National course iin Augusta, Ga.- scene of the Masters -here Apr. 3, 1957 are Bobby Jones (left), all time golfing great and...

Looking over the Augusta National course iin Augusta, Ga.- scene of the Masters -here Apr. 3, 1957 are Bobby Jones (left), all time golfing great and...

Evangelist Billy Graham in Buffalo, New York, April 3, 1957, looks over some of the hundreds of pledges received from churches around the country, pro...

Don Finsterwald of Jupiter, Fla., right, smells azaleas in the second round play in the Azalea Tournament in Wilmington, N.C., March 29, 1957. Leading...

One of the late Zane Grey's unpublished manuscripts is studied by the author's widow and Dick Powell during a visit by the television and movie star t...

Dick Powell, host of

An aerial view of Ebbets Field is shown in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 8, 1957. (AP Photo)

Sen . Storm Thurmond, D-SC, center , makes a point as he huddles with a group of South Carolinas March 4, 1957 before a hearing at the Senate Judicia...

U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC) , gestures from the witness table February 26, 1957 during testimony before the House Judiciary subcommittee. The...

Carmen Basilio, has just delivered the final punch of tonight's title bout, Feb 22, 1957 in Cleveland, a left hook, and challenger Johnny Saxton of Ne...