John McCain's imprisonment in North Vietnam. Left: McCain with his squadron, 1965. Right: with President Nixon following his release, 1973.
"Breaking Bad," a Netflix series, which ran from 2008 to 2013. [IMDB photos]
Richard Nixon's presidency. Left: 14-year-old Nixon with his violin, 1927. Right: in South Vietnam, July 1969.
Robert Kennedy's time without his big brother, Jack. Left: JFK in the driver's seat and Bobby in back with friends at the Hyannis Port Yacht Club, August 1941. Right: outside the Oval Office, March 1963.
Marily Monroe's marriage with playwright Arthur Miller, the longest lasting of her three marriages. Left: at their June 1956 wedding, Right: with Don Murray in "Buststop," 1956.
Brett Kavanaugh's current length of service on the Supreme Court. Left: Kavanaugh discusses the confirmation process with President Bush and advisors, 2018. Right: Kavanaugh's high school activities calendar used in an attempt to discredit testimony of Christine Blasey Ford, his alleged assault victim.
NASA's Juno spacecraft traveled 2 billion miles over the course of five years to enter a polar orbit over the planet Jupiter in 2016. Juno's discoveries have challenged old theories about the planet. The mission will continue for another couple of years in an effort to study the planet's moons. Right: Jupiter's North Pole.
The wartime premiership of Winston Churchill. Left: 21 years old in 1895. Right: with President Truman in Missouri, where he delivered his Iron Curtain speech and described the alliance between the US and the UK as a "special relationship." March 1946. Churchill would serve again as Prime Minister in the 1950s.
Five years passed between publisher William Randolph Hearst’s private Berlin meeting with Hitler in September 1934 and Hitler’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. Hearst, the owner of a powerful media conglomerate, had recently praised Hitler after his 1934 election as Germany’s president as well as chancellor and had lauded German efforts to break free of the restrictions imposed by the Versailles Peace Treaty. Left: Hearst poses with Nazi officials in Berlin, 1934. Right: Hearst at a dinner party at his California estate, c. 1931.
Bugs Bunny, a personal favorite, debuted in “A Wild Hare” in July 1940. [This image came from a 1941 US war bond drive.]
