AP Historical Hard Drive 1997

Betty Hunter of New York City, and her poodle, Rini, join pickets outside the S.H. Kress & Co. at 106th Street and Third Avenue, New York City, Februa...

A model of the Saturn rocket, with Dr. Wernher von Braun giving pointers on its operation, commands the attention of three members of the House Space...

Broadway playwright Adolph Green and his bride, 26 year old actress Phyllis Newman, are shown after their wedding at the Sheraton East Hotel in New Yo...

Senator Lyndon Johnson, the vice president-elect, looks over one of his prize, registered Hereford bulls on his LBJ Ranch near Johnson City, Texas in...

Jackie Gleason is shown as a sightseeing bus salesman in the variety revue,

Judith Campbell Exner is shown in 1960, the year she said she met John F. Kennedy. Exner has admitted to being a mistress to the late President, and...

A team shot of the 1960 Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. hockey team. (AP Photo)

A band plays for fans at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore prior to the start of the Baltimore Colts' game against the New York Giants Dec. 27, 1959. (AP...

Harold Lipset of San Francisco displays a tiny microphone as he talks with Sen. Thomas Mannings, D-Mo., right, at a Senate Constitutional Rights Subco...

Helium-filled Popeye balloon figure floats above some of the 1,300,000 persons watching the 33rd Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade pass through Times Squ...

Russell J. Nelson, Jr., left, of Concord, N.H., and Fred J. Martineau, of Providence, R.I., leave the courthouse in Manchester, N.H. on Nov. 5, 1959....

Sgt. Edgar D. Croswell of the New York State Bureau of Criminal Investigation pauses November 2, 1959, outside the New York Federal Court, where he wa...

"Elvis Presley Mein Gott," translation: "Elvis Presley My God." This is what unknown persons wrote in white oil paint letters at the cathedral's gat...

"Capeman" Salvador Agron, right, is seen in police custody with his friend Luis Hernandez in New York on Sept. 30, 1959. Agron was convicted along wi...

The two stars of the Los Angeles Dodgers' dramatic win over San Francisco, left hander Sandy Koufax, left, and outfielder Wally Moon face newsmen in t...

Small boys play cards an games on a playground in New York's Hell's Kitchen where only a few hours earlier August 30, 1959, two 16 year-old-boys wer...

Gov. Earl K. Long tugs at suspender-hung trousers as he blasts opponents in his campaign for re-election during a stop on his stump trip August 10, 19...

The Grand Prix of German race for Formula I cars was held August 2, 1959 on West Berlin's AVUS track. Cars on the south curve during the first lap:...

Cars roaring away from the starting line at the Grand Prix of Germany race for Formula One cars held August 2, 1959 on West Berlin's AVUS track. (AP...

Jean Behra, one of France's greatest racing drivers, is shown at speed in his Porsche sports car during the Berlin Sports Car Grand Prix on the Avus c...

Prince Bertil drives his old Bugatti at the Swedish motor races in August 1959. (AP Photo)

Gary Player, 23-year-old South African, is shown kissing the winner's trophy that his 72-hole total of 284 got him at Muirfield, Scotland, July 3, 195...

Vice President Richard Nixon is seen with his dog

Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix, is seen after pitching 12 perfect innings against the Milwaukee Braves on May 26, 1959, in Milwaukee. Haddix...

Pittsburgh Pirates Harvey Haddix throws during one of his 12 perfect innings against the Milwaukee Braves, May 26, 1959, in Milwaukee. Haddix was perf...

Australia's Jack Brabham, driving a British Cooper-Climax, negotiates a curve during the Grand Prix of Monaco automobile race May 10, 1959. He went o...

With the small Riviera Port of Monaco in the background, here is Australian Jack Brabham in his Cooper-Climax in action during the trials for the Mona...

Winston Churchill with Dwight D. Eisenhower during a visit to Ike's Gettysburg farm on May 8, 1959. (AP Photo)

Winston Churchill with Dwight D. Eisenhower during a visit to Ike's Gettysburg farm on May 8, 1959. (AP Photo)

Pee Wee Reese, his old teammate, wheels Roy Campanella onto playing field before Dodgers - Yankees exhibition in Los Angeles Coliseum May 7, 1959. Ga...

The checkered flag goes down as Jack Brabham wins the International Trophy Race in a Cooper at Silverstone, England on May 2, 1959. Brabham's average...

Cuba's Fidel Castro reaches over the heads of well-wishers to shake the hands extended toward him after his arrival at National Airport in Washington,...

Paul Robeson presented this impressive study during a rehearsal for

Paul Robeson, left, as Othello, Mary Ure as Desdemona, and Paul Hardwick as Brabantio are shown during a dress rehearsal for

Eddie Sawyer, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, poses April 4, 1959. Sawyer, who led the

Averaging 12 miles a day through the Himalayas, the Dalai Lama is shown journeying through the Karpo Pass, one of the highest on the flight route of t...

Pursued by Red Chinese troops struggling against the harsh elements of the Himalayas, the Dalai Lama is shown on the fourth day of his flight to freed...

Veteran Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse Nationals drives in to score in the Nats' 131-115 victory over the New York Knickerbockers, March 15,1959 in an...

First Lady Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt is seen in London on March 7, 1959. (AP Photo)

High in the Himalayas, the Dalai Lama, god king of Tibet, rests with warriors who protected him on his incredible flight from the Red Chinese. The Dal...

Gerard V. Catena, South Orange, N.J., coil machine operator, takes the witness stand on February 10, 1959, before the Senate Rackets Committee. He in...

Shown at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas on January 31, 1959, celebrating their 32nd wedding anniversary are Mary and Jack Benny. At left is actor Edwar...

A copy of a daguerreotype taken by N.H. Shephard in Springfield, IL in 1846, when Lincoln was a Congressman. It is the earliest photograph of Abraham...

Police and mechanics probe the wreckage of the sports car in which Britain's Mike Hawthorn, 29, world champion race driver met his death, January 22,...

His youngsters are all eyes and ears as former Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella talks with them in their suburban Long Island home at Glen Cove, January...

Jean Behra, France's top motor racing ace, is surrounded by unidentified officials as he sits in the cockpit of the new Ferrari racing car at the Ferr...

Private Elvis Presley is shown at the piano in the rec hall, Headquarters Company, Third Armored Division, in Friedberg, Hesse, West Germany in the Sp...

Tony Curtis with his wife Janet Leigh and their two children Jamie and Kelly at home in 1959. (AP Photo)

Under the 1920s costumes and makeup of this pair of animated females, are two of Hollywood's best known he-men, Jack Lemmon, left, and Tony Curtis. T...

A photo circa 1959 of the Sheikh Sir Sulman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa, ruler of Bahrain. (AP Photo)