AP Historical Hard Drive 1997

Lyndon Johnson of Austin, Texas, is shown in 1937 when he was elected to the House of Representatives in a special election. (AP Photo)

Rep. Lyndon Johnson, D-Texas, is shown in 1937. (AP Photo)

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, is shown in 1937. Ataturk is the leading contender for Time Magazine's

A signed and handwritten manuscript of

Lana Turner's first film role as high school student Mary Clay in Mervyn Leroy's

After 17 years of success in individual enterprises, Sam H. Harris, left, and George M. Cohan have revived their famed Broadway partnership, December...

Too proud to accept relief, William E. Bird, shown with his family on November 14, 1936, in Jacksonville, Vt., has offered to give his body as collate...

King Edward VIII, formerly Duke of Windsor, and his mother, Queen Mary, are shown as they arrived at the Cenotaph in Whitehall November 11, 1936, for...

This Roosevelt sign didn't last long when Republican sympathizers among Smith College girls went into action at a G.O.P. rally October 14, 1936. A gr...

Mel Ott, Giants slugger, is shown raising his foot in a typical pose just before hitting a fly ball, October 5, 1936, which Joe DiMaggio caught in the...

Monte Pearson, left, the winning pitcher in game 4 of the World Series against the New York Giants, October 4, 1936, and Lou Gehrig, who hit a homer i...

Babe Ruth, right, is telling the great Dizzy Dean, in October, 1936, after the former home run king shot a neat 84 to beat the ace St. Louis Cardinal...

Lou Gehrig, the

The Olympic 4x400 relay medalists, August 9, 1936 in Berlin, shown, from left: Germany, bronze medal; Great Britain, gold medal; and the United State...

Jack Lovelock of New Zealand wins the Olympic 1500 metres, from Glenn Cunningham of the U.S., in the world record time of 3:47.8 at the Olympic Stadiu...

American athletes march in formation to join other teams at the Olympic Stadium during opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Game in Berlin, German...

Women's Olympic track and field squad as they left for Europe today on the SS. Manhattan, July 15, 1936. Front row, left to right: Harriett Bland, S...

Dizzy Dean, star pitcher of the St. Louis Cardinals, received first aid on the field after a drive off the bat of Burgess Whitehead of the New York Gi...

Unconscious after being struck on the head by a line drive, Dizzy Dean, the Cardinal pitcher, was carried off the field by his teammates on July 11, 1...

Jesse Owens of Ohio State clinched the broad jump with a leap of 26 feet 1 inch in the senior National AAU Championships in Princeton, N.J., July 4, 1...

Professor Albert Einstein began an Adirondacks vacation, July 3, 1936, with a nine-hour sailing lark that really wound up as a towing operation with a...

Smiling demonstrators greeted the nomination of President Franklin Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention, June 27, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pa...

Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri, left, and political boss and delegate Thomas Pendergast of Kansas City on the floor at the Democratic National Co...

The mighty Queen Mary shown as she edged up lower New York Harbor, with the skyline of Manhattan in the background, toward her pier and the completion...

Saved earlier from a mob by national guardsmen and a judge, Lint Shaw, a 45 year old Negro, was taken from jail in Royston, Georgia, April 28, 1936, a...

The boss of the New York Yankees, Joe McCarthy, left, and Red Ruffing, right, the pitcher who ended his holdout and capitulated to a contract recently...

Robert

Bucky Harris, manager of the Washington Senators, crashes through the hoop to lead his squad of rookies and veterans onto Tinker Field to start the wi...

Members of the DiMaggio family say goodbye to their hero, 21-year-old Joe, who left today, February 22, 1936, by automobile for the New York Yankee tr...

A sad spill in the second elimination race of the Olympic four man bobsleds, February 19, 1936. The Italian sled Italia 2 fails to take a curve and...

The Swiss bobsled

Jack Benny and his wife Mary Livingston pose with their adopted baby, Joan, on January 14, 1936. (AP Photo)

Back on familiar grounds, Babe Ruth hauls out his golf clubs and experiments to determine if he still has his putting touch on January 8, 1936. Ruth,...

The Monticello, Va. home of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States. (AP Photo)

Burgess Meredith and Margo are seen in this 1936 photo as they appear in

A cameraman working from a crane outside the stadium is shown filming the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. (AP Photo)

A brilliant assemblage, representing all of Hollywood's major motion picture studios, is shown gathered at a dinner dance in Hollywood on December 5,...

Leo Durocher, St. Louis Cardinal shortstop, at bat on October 3, 1935. (AP Photo)

This photo shows Colonel Charles Lindbergh visiting the experimental rocket tower at Roswell, New Mexico, September 25, 1935, where Dr. Robert H Godda...

Detroit Tigers, American League winners pitching staff shown with manager Mickey Cochrane, left: Lynwood T.

Shown on July 29, 1935, a Dallas beer parlor offered

Walter Johnson, manager of the Cleveland Indians, who pitched himself to fame while hurling for the Washington Senators, pictured here July 22, 1935 a...

While it may be quite a spell before these youngsters see any real action, there's not doubt about their being real Italian

Just after he asked the Governor of Alabama to pardon the nine youths held in the Scottsboro case, Samuel Leibowitz, New York attorney, conferred with...

Dazzy Vance, veteran pitcher of the Brooklyn Dodgers, photographed before the game at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn on April 28, 1935. (AP Photo)

At age 40 with his eye on the right field stands, Babe Ruth taps the plate (upper left); a miss for strike one (upper right); a terrific cut at the ba...

Because, it was explained It's Hitler's Birthday, the Nazi Emblem fluttered outside the offices of the Hamburg American Line, 57 Broadway, New York...

Luther Simjian is photographed as he arrives in New York City in April 1935. Simjian, an inventor who held more than 200 patents on items including...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown swimming in the pool of the Polio Foundation at Warm Springs, Georgia, March 31, 1935. FDR first went to War...

Babe Ruth, former Yankee star, had no luck at all in batting against the famous Dizzy Dean during the Boston Braves - St. Louis Cardinals exhibition g...