Share this postPhoto of the DayThis Week's Best Old PhotosCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreThis Week's Best Old PhotosThis Week's Best Old PhotosNo. 346 Brenda ElthonJun 21, 2023∙ Paid8Share this postPhoto of the DayThis Week's Best Old PhotosCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMore2ShareShareSubscribeLeft: Winston Churchill, age 18, and his brother, Jack. 1892. Right: Franklin Roosevelt, age 18, in 1900.Left: Man of the Mandan Tribe, Mandan Reservation, Montana, 1903. Right: The home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, 5th Ave. and 57th Street, NYC, 1908.Left: Francis Gary Powers (right) with U-2 designer Kelly Johnson, standing in front of a U-2 high-altitude spy plane, 1966. In April 1960, Powers crashed his U-2 in the Soviet Union and was held in a Soviet prison for one year. Right: Government officials await the exchange of spies on the Glienecke Bridge near Berlin, 1962. The Bridge spanned the Havel River, which formed part of the boundary between East Germany and West Germany during the Cold War. It was there, in 1962, that Gary Powers was exchanged for a Soviet spy that had been in a US prison.Left: Conducting a search-and-destroy mission in South Vietnam, 1966. Right: helicopter evacuation of wounded, 1966.Left: Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, April 1939. Right: A mob attacks Freedom Riders attempting to integrate interstate bus travel at the Birmingham Greyhound Bus Station, May 1961.Left: Jimmy Stewart, Fred MacMurray, Bob Hope and President Nixon, Lakeside Golf Course, Los Angeles, January 1970. Right: President Nixon delivers a televised address announcing the launch of military action in Cambodia, an incursion, he said, that would shorten the Vietnam War, April 1970.Left: President William McKinley works at the Resolute Desk, 1896. Right: President and Mrs. Ford with their dog, Liberty, at the Camp David swimming pool, 1974.Left: President and Mrs. Kennedy speak with author Pearl Buck at a White House dinner given for Nobel laureates, April 1962. Right: President Kennedy in the Oval Office during the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962.Left: John Wilkes Booth listens to Pres Abraham Lincoln’s 2nd inaugural address, Mar 4, 1865. Right: Former Pres U.S. Grant (center, front) in Egypt, on his 2-year post-presidential world tour, Jan 1878.Left: Ed Sullivan with The Beatles at rehearsal for their appearance on Sullivan’s television show, Feruary 8, 1964. Right: Sullivan introduces Mrs. Coretta Scott King, who appeared on Sullivan's television program to preview video clips of her husband's speeches, 1970.***************************************We’ll see you on Saturday. — Brenda, Doug and BillShareLeave a commentSubscribeThis post is for paid subscribersSubscribeAlready a paid subscriber? Sign inPreviousNext