AP Historical Hard Drive 1997

The U.S. figure skaters who scored a clean sweep in the men's Olympic figure skating championships in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, February 2, 1956, dis...

Skiers who won medals for finishing in the first three places in the Olympic men's slalom at Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, January 31, 1956. From left:...

Italy's Giacomo Conti, right, brakeman, and driver Lamberto Dalla Costa, smile and wave January 28, 1956 after winning the two-man bobsled championshi...

Hayes Alan Jenkins of Colorado Springs, Co., favored to win the men's figure skating gold medal, works out at the Olympic Ice Stadium at Cortina D'Amp...

A big model of the U.S. Army's newest guided missile, the Redstone, is the center of this Pentagon talk, January 20, 1956, between Dr. Wernher von Bra...

The city of Jackson said today it will put up its own segregation signs in the railroad station tonight after Illinois Central Railroad workers remove...

Cal Abrams, outfielder whose biggest play may have been getting thrown out at home plate while with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950, is shown in 1956. (...

Actor Anthony Quinn, right, and co-star Lita Milan are shown on the set of their 1956 western adventure film

Kusma Kandaurow, 61, and his wife, Sofie, 41, and their children, Hanna, left, front, nine, and Sonja, five, are in deep thought as a clergyman reads...

Drivers in the 210 mile Nassau, Bahama Trophy sports car race dash to their cars in a Le Mans type start, December 12, 1955. Phil Hill of Santa Monic...

Writer Ernest Hemingway, left, embraces Havana Province's Governor Panchin Batista, right, after the governor decorated the author with the Order of S...

The sights of Broadway are pointed out to some of the Grand Ole Opry troupe outside the Palace Theatre in New York City, November 2, 1955. From left...

World amateur figure skating champions Tenley Albright and Hayes Alan Jenkins cut a fancy figure on the ice at Madison Square Garden in New York, Octo...

Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley, left, hugs manager Walter Alston at Yankees Stadium on Oct. 4, 1955 in New york after the Dodgers beat the Yan...

The Brooklyn Dodgers' Roy Campanella comes trotting home after belting his first hit of the 1955 World Series against the New York Yankees, a home run...

Whitey Ford of New York Yankees and Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers clasp hands as they pose prior to taking the mound as pitching rivals in the...

Brooklyn Dodgers' Jackie Robinson safely steals home plate under the tag attempt of Yankees catcher Yogi Berra in the eighth inning of the World Serie...

Mrs. Mamie Bradley, mother of Emmett Louis Till, a black 14 year old slain in Mississippi, attends a rally in Williams Institutional Christian Methodi...

These 12 men were seated September 20, 1955 in the jury box to hear testimony and decide the fate of Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, who are charged with s...

Philadelphia Phillies' Richie Ashburn, left, poses with Brooklyn Dodgers' Roy Campanella before their doubleheader at Ebbets Field in New York, Sept....

Stirling Moss of Britain is shown in his Mercedes during the 623- mile R.A.C. International Tourist Trophy Race at Dundrod Circuit near Belfast, Septe...

Curvaceous Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida and Muli, a five-year-old chimpanzee who bit her on their first meeting, raise arms together during the...

Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella goes down on one knee as he connects with ball in one of his unorthodox swings, August 30, 1955 in New York....

British racing driver Stirling Moss is behind the wheel of a Mercedes, August 30, 1955, trying out one of the new banked curves at the Monza, Italy tr...

Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals is seen here in this August 22, 1955 photo. (AP Photo)

Pablo Picasso, the 73-year-old Spanish painter snaps his fingers to guitar music at a bullfight he organized at Vallauris, on the French Riviera, Augu...

German rocket expert Wernher von Braun is shown at the Pentagon in Washington August 4, 1955, with a model of the U.S. Army's Corporal guided missil...

Six players who were inducted into the Hall of Fame this year gather at Yankee Stadium in New York City on July 30, 1955, before the Yankee - Kansas C...

Margaret Truman and Joe DiMaggio pose together at Yankee Stadium, New York City, June 27, 1955, prior to benefit game between the New York Yankees and...

Mike Hawthorn and his co-driver Ivor Bueb, in a three-litre Jaguar, won the 24-hour Le Mans Race, June 12, 1955, covering 4,175.38 kilometers at an av...

A few of the living come to the rescue among the dead and injured following the worst tragedy in racing history at Le mans, France, June 11, 1955. Vi...

Spectators flee the searing flames of a smashed Mercedes racing car after an accident at Le Mans, France, endurance race which killed more than 80 per...

This was one of the many scenes of stark tragedy at the Le Mans, France race track June 11, 1955, after a Mercedes sports car driven by Pierre Levegh...

The Austin Healey, #26, into which French driver Pierre Levegh crashed lies in a mangled heap on the side of the track at Le Mans, June 11, 1955. Lev...

A man holds a child in the left background while a woman bends over a lifeless body following the racing car crash and explosion during the 24 hour en...

French police use a banner torn from the barrier in the background to beat out the flames on the body which observers said they believed was the body...

Leo Durocher of the New York Giants is shown in June of 1955 in Minneapolis, Minn. (AP Photo)

Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina, left, crossed the finish line less than three feet ahead of Stirling Moss, right, of Britain to win the sports car ra...

British road racing ace Peter Collins roars off from Rome, Italy in his Ferrari during the Mille Miglia, Italy's classic road race, May 12, 1955. He...

Casey Stengel, manager of the New York Yankees, was thrown out of the game with the Cleveland Indians after this argument with plate umpire Larry Napp...

Stirling Moss, with British motor sports writer Denis Jenkinson beside him, drives a silver Mercedes-Benz Roadster to victory in the 1955 Mille Miglia...

French driver Jean Behra is shown in his Maserati during the Grand Prix of Pau which he won on April 11, 1955, covering the 340 kilometer race at an a...

Actor Tom Ewell, star of the movie and stage versions of

Brooklyn Dodgers' Roy Campanella, left, and New York Yankees' Yogi Berra, rival catchers, exchanged greetings before an exhibition game on March 25, 1...

Observers watch an atomic nuclear blast in this March 23, 1955 photo. The National Cancer Institute said Friday, August 1, 1997 that fallout from 1950...

Colonel Hubert Julian, daredevil

Mike Hawthorn (left) of England, wears the floral wreath of victory after driving a D-Jaguar through the 12 hours of the Sebring Grand Prix of Enduran...

Mike Hawthorne, left, and Phil Walters, Jaguar drivers who drove their D-Jaguar to victory in the Sebring Grand Prix of Endurance, March 11, 1955, Seb...

The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is shown speaking to an overflow crowd at a mass meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church. King, leader of the mass...

Dr. Norris E. Bradbury is shown in his Los Alamos, N.M. office in this 1955 file photo. Bradbury, who led the team that assembled the first atomic bo...