AP Historical Hard Drive 2007

This was the scene in Montgomery's Municipal Auditorium Jan. 4, 1953 as thousands filed past the open casket of singer-composer Hank Williams who died...

President Truman taps the shoulder of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the new Democratic leader of the Senate, as he gives some advice during a vi...

Sen. Ernest W. Macfarland (D-Ariz), left, and Sen. Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex) meet at the capitol Washington, January 2, 1953. Johnson is the new democ...

Prof. Cecil F. Powell, Nobel winner and head of the Physics Dept. at Bristol University, is seen, Jan. 1953. (AP Photo)

Sammy Baugh, the almost everlasting passing wonder shakes hands with George P. Marshall, President of the Washington Redskins, December 14, 1952 . (AP...

Mrs. Billie Williams, attractive widow of Hank Williams, popular country singer who died Jan. 1, 1953, said in Houston that she had agrees to go to Ok...

Joyous Kentucky football players give coach Paul Bryant, center, and assistant Ermal Allen a ride off the field on their shoulders after scoring twice...

Driver Marshall Teague, left, of Daytona Beach, Fla, and co-driver Les Snow of Bloomington, III., look over their 1952 Hudson Hornet being repaired in...

U.S. Representative John F. Kennedy running for the U.S. Senate seat from Mass.is seated at his desk in his Boston office on October 28, 1952. (A...

Lou Groza of the Cleveland Browns kicks an extra point against the Philadelphia Eagles, October 19, 1952 to break the National Football league mark fo...

Ernie Godfrey of the Ohio State coaching staff planted a great big kiss on the football used in the Buckeye's upset of Wisconsin as Head Coach Woody H...

With his face covered with soot, subway patrolman, Theodore Wolff, steps from the IRT subway station at 103rd Street and Broadway after he chased a ma...

Brooklyn Dodgers player Joseph Black, September 10, 1952. (AP Photo)

Prima Ballerina Maria Tallchief and Andre Eglevsky perform with the New York City Ballet at La Scala Theatre in Milan, Italy, in this undated photo....

A group of black pickers, on their way to the cotton fields, got their names checked by W.E. Sisk, center, of the U.S. farm labour office, as they bo...

John and Carol Washington of Richmond Hill, NY, await the arrival of Republican Presidential Candidate Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower at Lauguardia Field,...

Nathan Leopold, who is serving a life sentence for his participation in the murder of a 14-year-old boy in 1924, prepares to donate blood to the Red C...

Joan Crawford on the studio set with Jack Palance, left, her leading man in

Joan Crawford on the studio set with Jack Palance, left, her leading man in

Ten members of Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes line up for a lesson in archery on the theater's rooftop in Rockefeller Center in New York, Aug. 6, 1...

Five-year-old Carl Makula receives a congratulatory kiss from six-year-old Patricia Lengel after winning the Cubs' tricycle race in the Children's Aid...

Here are the governors of the three southern holdout states decline to sign the loyalty pledge in the Democratic National convention meeting in Chicag...

Elbert P. Tuttle, left, of Atlanta, Ga., and W. Roscoe Tucker, of Cleveland, Ohio, wait off the floor of the GOP convention meeting at the start of s...

The Rev. Jacob Deshazer, who was one of the Doolittle Raiders in their spectacular attack on Japan in 1942, in now a missionary in Japan. Representing...

Roberto De Vicenzo, of Argentina, left, cools off with caddy Harry Patton after eliminating Jack Burke Jr., of Houston, from the PGA tournament in Lou...

North Korean prisoners huddle under barbed wire as they are transported from one compound to another on Koje Island, June 17, 1952. They are surrounde...

Some of 650 enlisted POWs who were in compound 66 on Koje Island as orderlies of the officers are marched along a road to their new compound, June 17,...

Countess Krystyna Skarbek, 37 years old polish noblewoman with a brilliant record as a British wartime spy, was found stabbed to death, June 16, 1952...

Wounded Communist Prisoners, some aided by companions, are herded out of Koje Island POW camp's compound 76 after bloody fight with U.S. paratroopers...

Major Dave korn of Richmond, Va., interlligence officer of 187 RCT, bends over North Korean Col. Lee Hak Koo, the leader of the compound who remained...

Paul Winchell, the ventriloquist, and his wife have coffee in one of the booths of the Cromwell Drug store in the RCA building, at Rockefeller Center...

Gordon B. McLendon, president of the Liberty Brodcasting system of Dallas, is shown after announcing suspension of the system in a broadcast from its...

This sign, painted by Communist prisoners of war, greeted correspondents when they were permitted to visit compound 76 on Koje Island, where the priso...

Sophie Tucker, american singing star, is not being impolite but just acting like an expert tea-taster as she spits after taking a mouthful of tea at a...

Male dancer Nicolas Magallaness, in the center, is surrounded by ballet dancers during the rehearsal of Igor Stravinsky's

Robert M. W. Kempner, a former Nuremberg prosecutor, testifying before a U.S. Congressional Committee, in Frankfurt, germany, April 24, 1952. The com...

Robert M. W. Kempner, a former Nuremberg prosecutor, testifying before a U.S. Congressional Committee, in Frankfurt, germany, April 24, 1952. The com...

James Frank Oliver, 28, of New York, sits with loot police say they found in his Harlem apartment April 4, 1952. He is being questioned in connection...

Joe Louis Jr., sporting a fancy cowboy outfit, is the four-year-old son of the champion boxer Joe Louis. Young Joe tries on gloves used by Rocky Gra...

Walt Byers, executive director of the NCAA, presents the first place trophy to Clyde Lovellette of the University of Kansas after Kansas defeated St....

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Crowd of Chinese workers estimated at thousands by police, begin leaving Kowloon railroad station at Hong Kong, March 15, 1952 after being told that a...

Assistant District Attorney of Brooklyn, Louis Andreozzi inspects the body of Arnold Schuster, a 28-year-old pants salesman, after he was found shot t...

New York Police Commisioner George Monaghan, left, leans down to look atthe body of Arnold Schuster, a 28-year-old pants salesman, after he was found...

The Clenched fist communist salute Greets British Officials as they turn back a Chinese Chamber Of Commerce

A "Welcoming Committee" of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is stopped March 5, 1952 at Fanling, Hong Kong. Shown is Y. K. Mok, committee cha...

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Ed McWhorter looks at an array of all glass cathode ray bulbs at the Radio Engineer's show in New York, March 4, 1952. The bulbs are for television pi...

University of Kentucky's Cliff Hagan (6) sails high for two points as Tulane's Ivan Wilhelm (4) tries to block during the Southeastern Conference Tour...

In the 40-minute flare-up, two private cars were overturned, and the demonstrators overturned and set on fire a British Army motorcycle, a Royal Artil...