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1937 Alcatraz mutiny... attack on warden...

Item # 728629 · September 25, 1937

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, Sept. 25, 1937

* Alcatraz Island prison mutiny
* San Francisco Bay "The Rock"

The front page has a nice banner headline for display: "BEATS WARDEN IN ALCATRAZ" with subhead. A few related photos...

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Serial killer Albert Fish... Amelia Earhart...

Item # 728626 · June 08, 1928

THE NEW YORK TIMES, June 8, 1928

* Albert Fish kidnaps Grace Budd
* Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal
* "The Boogey Man" - "Gray Man"
* "Brooklyn Vampire" - "Werewolf of Wysteria"
* Woman aviator Amelia Earhart
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1969 Charles Manson family murders...

Item # 728625 · August 19, 1969

DAILY WORLD, New York, Aug. 19, 1969

* Sharon Tate - LaBianca murders
* Charles Manson & followers (family)
* Twisted motives of Helter Skelter

This publication, The World, represents the official voice and ideological

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Tupac Shakur arrested in Atlanta (1993)...

Item # 728623 · November 02, 1993

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Nov. 2, 1993

* Tupac Shakur 2Pac arrested
* Aggravated assault against police
* American rapper and actor

Page F2 of the "Calendar Section" has a report with heading: "Rappers Arrested in Shootings"

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Pre-drones technology in 1946...

Item # 728621 · August 07, 1946

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 7, 1946

* Historic Operation Remote - military aircraft flight
* Unmanned B-17 Flying Fortress drone (QB-17)
* United States Army Air Forces flight over the Pacific

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