AP Historical Hard Drive 2008

Victor Kravchenko, left, gestures as he replies to the testimony of his former wife, Zinaida Gorlova, in the trial for the lawsuit brought by him agai...

A police officer sits between defence lawyer Joe Nordman, seated right, and Victor Kravchenko, standing left, as ordered by the presiding judge during...

Victor Kravchenko makes his opening declaration during the trial for the lawsuit brought by him against Les Lettres Fran??aises at Palais de Justice,...

Victor Kravchenko signs his autograph in the court where the trial is beginning for the lawsuit brought by him against Les Lettres Fran??aises. Palais...

Winners of the 14th annual award of the New York Film Critics hold their scrolls at New York Music Hall on Jan. 21, 1949 in New York. Roberto Rosse...

Olivia De Havilland receives scroll from Thomas M. Pryor, of the New York Times, chairman of the New York Film Critics on Jan. 21, 1949 at New York,...

Singer Paul Robeson was a spectator at the interview of jurors in the communist trial in New York, at the Federal Building, Jan. 20, 1949. (AP Photo/...

Social Democrat, Ernst Reuter, mayor of Berlin, reads the morming papers with the header of his yesterday's winning election here in Berlin, Germany,...

Glenn McCarthy, no hat, wealthy Texan, shakes hands with Patsy Posey, nine, of Stockton, Tex., atop

Auto racer Rex Mays, one of the America's leading race car drivers, was killed in a race on Nov.6, 1949 at Del Mar,California. Mays in the undated p...

People crowd around a coal dealer in West Berlin district Neukoelln, November 27, 1948 in the blockaded city. Every household is entitled to 12,5 kg (...

People crowd around a coal dealer in West Berlin district Neukoelln, November 27, 1948 in the blockaded city. Every household is entitled to 12,5 kg (...

Children stand in front of a British

Children stand in front of a British

The wife of a lamp doctor, a German craftsman shows a petroleum lamp to a customer inside the kitchen of his repair shop in West Berlin, Germany, Nove...

Members of the U.S. Capitol Police Force line up for target practice in Washington, D.C., Oct. 25, 1948. left to right: Pvt. William S. Gilliland, of...

A School for Arab children has been open in the Arab section of Hafia under sponsorship of the Jewish Town Council of the Palestinian city. Opened Sep...

Max Basin of Bayonne New Jersey has achieved his life long wish and has migrated to Palestine Mr. Basin a Zionist of many years came to the United Sta...

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee sits, centre front row, for the official photograph on the final day of the Commonwealth Conference, in the grou...

Britain's Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh leaves Londonderry House on October 20, 1948 in London after attending the wedding...

Eli Gordon who played the lead in prize winning Palestine Motion Picture

Ted Horn, 38-year-old racing car driver, is lifted from the Du Quoin, Illinois, fairgrounds race track on October 10, 1948. Horn was fatally injured...

Dr. Walter Kolb, lord mayor of Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, adresses the citizens here calling for donations in form of food, blankets and gold fo...

A German craftsman inspects a petroleum lamp inside his repair shop in West Berlin, Germany, October 10, 1948. Electricity is limited to four hours a...

Lefthander Warren Spahn throws the first ball in the second game of the 1948 world series at Braves Field Oct. 7, 1948. Leadoff batter for Cleveland i...

A German girl watches her mother prepare dehydrated potatoes in a small pot on a small solid spirit burner, in West Berlin, Germany, October 10, 1948...

Mecanics and a driver play

An old man chops up a tree stump for firewood in the Grunewald in West Berlin, Germany, September 29, 1948. Berliners start to gather wood and other f...

Movie star Robert Mitchum, right, and attorney, Jerry Giesler, leave Los Angeles superior court on Sept. 21, 1948. (AP Photo)

John Kelley, 41-year-old veteran runner of Acton, Massachhusetts, crosses the finish line in the National AAU marathon, winning the championship after...

Movie actor Robert Mitchum pays little attention to the words of his attorney, Jerry Giesler, left, as his eyes wander around the big crowd in the cou...

Robert Mitchum, movie actor arrives in Hall of Justice on Sept. 8, 1948 in Los Angeles, with attorneys, Jerry Giesler, left, and Norman Tyre for a hea...

You would never guess it, but this happy go lucky clown is none other than der bingle, Bing Crosby performing in a benefit performance of the Ringling...

Sioux Indians, six of whom were present at the battle of Little Big Horn, where General George Custer and his soldiers were gathered for a reunion on...

Actor Robert Mitchum, arrested earlier in the day in a narcotics raid on a Hollywood home, leaves on Sept. 1, 1948 in Los Angeles country jail on a wr...

New Luxury 20 story hotel on Aug. 31, 1948 in Houston, Texas scheduled for the opening some time in 1949. It will have 1100 rooms, each equipped with...

Georg Wilhelm Pabst, right, Austrian producer of Kafka's

Moshe Dayan, 33-year-old commander of the Jerusalem Brigade with the Israeli Army on Aug. 22, 1948. Dayan wears dark glasses to hide patch over left...

Members of the Stern group display placards from jeeps parked on Aug 20, 1948 near the Belgian Consulate in Jerusalem. (AP Photo)

Flowers cover the closed coffin containing the body of Babe Ruth in the silent Rotunda of Yankee Stadium, on August. 18, 1948 in New York City, after...

An U.S. American C-74

German women sit in the sun to dry their hair outside a haidresser's saloon, as another woman gets her hair done in West Berlin, Germany, July 31, 194...

Steve Broidy, left, of Allied Artist movie studio presents a check for the Ruth Foundation for under privileged children to Babe Ruth at memorial hosp...

Actor Jean Hersholt, left, and his wife shown as they arrived on the Queen Elizabeth on July 14,1948 in New York.(AP Photo)

Nell Jackson, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Ala., recieved trophy for her team after winning 400 Meter relay event from M.M.Kesterson, managing editor...

A woman sits on top of a barge checking the goods being brought by a small motor boat delivered by a British

A woman sits on top of a barge checking the goods being brought by a small motor boat delivered by a British

Boston Braves' Johnny Antonelli, 18-year-old pitcher, is shown on the mound for the Braves pitching against the Phillies in Philadelphia in his first...

Boston Braves' Johnny Antonelli, 18-year-old pitcher, is shown on the mound for the Braves pitching against the Phillies in Philadelphia in his first...

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh (in uniform), left, chats with Earl Mountbatten of Burma, retiring Governor General of India, when the latter ar...