AP Historical Hard Drive 2002

Members of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing traditional white hoods and robes, stand around a burning cross in a nighttime demonstration as a large crowd wat...

One of the three wooden coaches of the Cairo-to-Jerusalem train hangs down the side of embankment at Rehovot, Palestine, on Feb. 29, 1948 iduring conf...

Civilians walk through the debris-laden Ben Yehuda street in Jerusalem following the explosion in the heart of the city's Jewish business district on...

Bodies of 12 Chinese Communist guerrillas slain Feb. 19, 1948, in the Tsingpu area near Shanghai, China, are unloaded by Nationalist troops at Tsingpu...

Dr. Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, and his wife, Margrethe, await transportation from a pier in New York City after their arrival aboard the liner Quee...

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Arab volunteers, training for the fight against the partition of Palestine, guard a defense post in the hills near Nablus, an Arab village in Middle P...

Members of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing traditional white hoods and robes, march in single file around the town square in Swainsboro, Ga., Feb. 3, 1948....

Sandbags for defense works are filled by Jewish girls in the Montefiore quarter of Jerusalem in Feb. 1948. The girls belong to the few Jewish familie...

Hubert H. Humphrey, mayor of Minneapolis, speaks as a witness before the Senate Banking Committee hearing on anti-inflation controls in Washington, D....

The laboratory in which the late Thomas A. Edison developed most of the 1,100 inventions is being prepared for its February opening to the public in W...

Jews crawl and run to dodge Arab snipers as they return to their homes in the village of Montefiore on the outskirt of Jerusalem after their day's wor...

Jews in the Old City section of Jerusalem queue up to await distribution of provisions brought into the city by British Army convoy on Jan. 19, 1948....

French Catholic writer Francois Mauriac, left, and British author Graham Greene are shown before their conference at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brus...

An Arab volunteer armed with a Molotov cocktail in his left hand, a rifle and bullets, and two hand grenades keeps guard at his post near Upper Bakaa...

Cabaret singer Elaine Stritch is shown in character from the musical revue

Josip Broz Tito, prime minister of Yugoslavia, who established a Communist government at the end of World War II, is shown in 1948. Tito, appointed p...

Palestinian Arabs attempt to overturn a Jewish taxi after setting it ablaze during a clash near Damascus Gate, Jerusalem, Dec. 29, 1947 in the Arab-Je...

A pedestrian walks between drifts of snow in Times Square in New York City, Dec. 27, 1947, following the record-breaking snowfall of the day before....

Members of the National Military Organization Irgun Zvai Leumi are armed with rifles, revolvers and automatic weapons as they take position on the roo...

Members of the National Military Organization Irgun Zvai Leumi are shown in position on a rooftop during the defense of the Jewish quarter on the Jaff...

Pedestrians make their way in between cars stalled on the bridge while crossing the Grand Central Parkway at Union Turnpike, Kew Gardens, Queens, N.Y....

A member of the National Military Organization Irgun Zvai Leumi (IZL) holds three hand grenades in her left hand as she reaches into a bag for more am...

Passengers scurry to buses at 49th Street and Fifth Ave., New York City, as snow continues to fall reaching a depth of 10.5 inches by 11:40 a.m., Dec....

Cotton pickers labor on a cotton farm in Bakersfield, Ca., Kern County in the San Joaquin Valley, Dec. 26, 1947. Southern California's crop of 760,00...

The main entrance to the Los Angeles Union Station at 800 N. Alameda Street, downtown Los Angeles, Ca., is shown on Dec. 19, 1947. Union Station was...

Displaced residents of the Jaffa-Tel Aviv border area in Palestine, who have left their homes because of clashes between Jews and Arabs, wash their di...

Women, wearing sailor blouses, bloomers and long, black stockings, play basketball at Smith College in Northampton, Mass., Dec. 13, 1947. (AP Photo)

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Jacqueline Cochran, racing pilot, looks from the cockpit of her P-51 Mustang at Palm Springs, Ca., Dec. 10, 1947. Written on the plane is Lockheed A...

This is a general view of Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Ca., Dec. 10, 1947. (AP Photo)

Visitors to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem enter the small entrance called

The Empire State Building is seen at right in this aerial view of buildings in Manhattan's Garment District on Seventh Avenue on Dec. 9, 1947. (AP Ph...

A white Jewish ambulance, with a British soldier riding aboard, carries wounded Jews through a crowd of Arabs at Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem as British so...

This is a December 1947 photo of Japanese Premier General Hideki Tojo, at an unknown location. (AP Photo)

Spyros P. Skouras, left, chats with film producer Louis B. Mayer in New York City, Nov. 24, 1947. They are talking between sessions of the Motion Pi...

Entertainer Danny Thomas plays the piano while his nine-year-old daughter Margaret accompanies on vocals at their home in Beverly Hills, Ca., Nov. 16,...

Pope Pius XII appears behind microphones during a radio broadcast from the Vatican in Nov. 1947. The Pope commended the American people for their eif...

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, left, and his wife, Cleo, listen from the audience as the chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) an...

New York Rangers goalie Chuck Rayner is seen during practice on Oct. 28, 1947 in New York. The Hall of Fame goaltender, three-time All-Star who playe...

J. Parnell Thomas, R-N.J., chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, confronts Robert Taylor as the actor takes the witness stand in Was...

J. Parnell Thomas, R-N.J., chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), shakes hands with Hollywood producer Jack L. Warner in Washi...

Parisian singer Edith Piaf poses aboard the Queen Elizabeth as she arrives in New York City on Oct. 16, 1947. (AP Photo)

Labor leader John L. Lewis speaks at the American Federation of Labor (AFL) convention in San Francisco, Ca., Oct. 15, 1947. Lewis is president of th...

Frank Gannett, newspaper publisher who founded The Gannett Company in Rochester, N.Y., in 1906, is shown in Oct. 1947. (AP Photo)

The Kon-Tiki expedition crew waves from the homemade balsa wood and bamboo raft upon arrival in San Francisco, Ca., from the South Pacific, Sept. 29,...

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnologist and head of the Kon-Tiki expedition, arrives in San Francisco, Ca., from the South Pacific, Sept. 29, 1947. (AP...

This is a general view of Queensboro 59th Street Bridge looking uptown from 53rd St. along the elevated Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive in New...

The Kon-Tiki expedition is shown after its arrival at Papeete, Tahiti, Polynesia, Sept. 18, 1947. Norwegian archaeologist Capt. Thor Heyerdahl and hi...

This is a general view showing the traffic congestion on Choeringhee, one of the busiest thoroughfares in Calcutta, India, as the country celebrates i...