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Photo Legend History, Interment Camps 1942 - The US government came to the conclusion that interning Japanese-American citizens was the best of a number of bad options. Roughly a hundred thousand Japanese-Americans ended up in camps. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066 on February 19, uprooting Japanese Americans on the west coast to be sent to Internment camps. The order led to the internment of Japanese Americans or AJAs (Americans of Japanese Ancestry) in which some 120,000 ethnic Japanese people were held in internment camps for the duration of the war. Of the Japanese interned, 62% were Nisei (American-born, second-generation Japanese American and therefore American citizens) or Sansei (third-generation Japanese American, also American citizens) and the rest were Issei (Japanese immigrants and resident aliens, first-generation Japanese American).

Unitad States Army in Vietnam 1950 The United States entered the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment. Military advisors arrived, beginning in 1950. U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with U.S. troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities, including 3 to 4 million Vietnamese from both sides, 1.5 to 2 million Laotians and Cambodians, and 58,159 U.S. soldiers. The Case-Church Amendment, passed by the U.S. Congress in response to the anti-war movement, prohibited direct U.S. military involvement after August 15, 1973. U.S. military and economic aid continued until 1975. The capture of Saigon by North Vietnamese army in April 1975 marked the end of Vietnam War. North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space" - Johnny Cash

Illegal alcohol being poured out during Prohibition, Detroit, 1929

Times Square 1943 in Color.

Banff, Alberta, Canada, 1962. Photo Legend History

This is the last known photo of Nicola Tesla. On 7th January 1943, Tesla died alone in the New Yorker Hotel. The inventor, physicist, and futurist was best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. By the end of his brilliant and tortured life, he was penniless and had become a vegetarian living on only milk, bread, honey, and vegetable juices. Tesla spent days in a park surrounded by the creatures that mattered most to him—pigeons—and his sleepless nights working over mathematical equations and scientific problems in his head.

Mother hides her face in shame after putting her children up for sale, Chicago, 1948

Mom and son watching the mushroom cloud after an atomic test, Las Vegas, 1953

This photo of Jimi Hendrix with his favorite guitar 'Black Betty' was taken on September 17th, 1970, by his girlfriend Monika Danneman in the garden behind her apartment. Hendrix died the next day from a barbiturate-related asphyxia in London. He is said to have choked on his own vomit after taking a mixture of drugs, including a large dose of sleeping pills. There is no indication to suggest that Hendrix's death was a suicide, despite media speculation that it was.

Photo Legend History Hotel owner pouring acid in the pool while black people swim in it, 1964. On June 18, 1964, black and white protesters jumped into the whites-only pool at the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Fla. In an attempt to force them out, the owner of the hotel poured acid into the pool.

Martin Luther King with his son removing a burnt cross from their front yard, 1960

Susan B. Anthony was raised in a Quaker family with deep roots in activism and social justice and became an advocate for women’s suffrage, women’s property rights and the abolition of slavery. In 1872, to challenge suffrage, Anthony tried to vote in the 1872 Presidential election. While Anthony was never able to legally vote, the 19th amendment, ratified in 1920, was named the “Susan B. Anthony Amendment.” - Photo Legend History

Annelies “Anne” Marie Frank, was a diarist, writer, and one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Born in Frankfurt, her family moved to Amsterdam when she was four due to wide-spread anti-Semitism in Germany.  In 1940, when the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, the freedom Anne and her family had enjoyed for seven years ended abruptly. They spent two years hiding in an annex, during which time Anne wrote extensively as a means of self-expression and self-preservation. The family was ultimately discovered and sent to concentration camps.

Baby cages used to ensure that children get enough sunlight and fresh air when living in an apartment building, ca. 1937

Disneyland Employee Cafeteria in 1961

Last prisoners of Alcatraz leaving, 1963

Advertisement for Atabrine, anti-malaria drug, in Papua, New Guinea during WWII

Annie Edison Taylor , the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, 1901

Elvis in the Army, 1958

The last known photo of the Titanic, as the ship leaving Queenstown, Ireland on April 12th, 1912

Anita Ekberg Facing The Paparazzi With Bow And Arrows, October 20, 1960

Construction of the Berlin wall, 1961

Iconic Physicist Stephen Hawking Dies At 76. R.I.P. Stephen. 'It would not be much of a universe if it wasn’t home to the people you love.’ - Stephen Hawking

Bill Gates and his favorite bike, 1970

John Lennon 1958 - a young John Lennon with his first wife Cynthia Powell-Lennon before The Beatles existed.

Frank Sinatra lighting John F. Kennedy’s cigarette, 1961

Michael Jackson as Charlie Chaplin, 1970s.

Just a man in a suit riding across a lake on a motorized surfboard while smoking a cigarette. 1948.

Ernest Hemingway boxing in Africa

Elvis Presley age 6

Louis Armstrong plays for his wife in Giza, 1961

U.S. Marine feeding a kitten, 1943

Economy Class on Pan Am 747 in the late 60's

The Beatles walking back the other way on Abbey Road, 1969

Brady Bunch Meets the Jacksons

The Doors behind a door, 1969

A woman hitting a skinhead with her handbag, Sweden, 1985. The womans mother was reportedly a concentration camp survivor.

A man browsing for books in Cincinnati's cavernous old main library. The library was demolished in 1955.

1950s Teenagers going on a date

Drive-in theater, South Bend Indiana, 1950s

Harlem, 1970s

You're American, Act Like It!

A liberated Jewish Holocaust survivor turning the tables around

Ruby Bridges, first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the South. November 14th, 1960

Old photos of the cast of "Friends".

Teenagers on a date in the 1950's

A whisky vending machine, 1960

Actress Marlene Dietrich is hoisted up to kiss her loved one, as he arrives home from World War II. New York, 1945

For my Irooni fans. The royal family of Iran. This family photo shows Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Diba (back right) with their children Shanaz, Leila and Ali Reza (from left) in Tehran in 1967