1979 Greensboro massacre... Anti-KKK rally killings...

LOS ANGELES TIMES, Nov. 4, 1979



* Anti-Ku Klux Klan - KKK rally

* Greensboro, North Carolina massacre

* American Nazi Party & (CWP)

* Demonstrators shot and killed 



The front page has a two column heading: "4 Slain at Anti-Klan Rally in N. Carolina; 10 Wounded" with subhead and related photo. (see images)

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Jesse Owens wins Olympic tryouts...

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, sport's section only, July 12, 1936 



* Jesse Owens 100-meter & broad jump

* Olympic games in Berlin Germany tryouts

* To be in front of Adolph Hitler & Third Reich



The front of this section has a five column headline: "Owens Beats Metcalfe in 100-Meter Dash Finals" with subheads and related photo. (see) The Olympics would begin just a few ... See More  

John Gotti guilty verdict, in a New York City newspaper...

DAILY NEWS, New York City, April 3, 1992



* John Gotti guilty verdict (1st report)

* Mobster Boss - Gambino crime family



This famous tabloid newspaper has a great displayable front page heading and photo concerning mob leader John Gotti's guilty verdict, which ended up being his last day of freedom in society.

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Adolph Hitler & Eva Braun's cause of death...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 2, 1945



* How Adolph Hitler & Eva Braun died ?

* Photo of leading Nazi leaders at Camp Ashcan



The top of the front page has a one column heading: "HITLER ENDED LIFE IN BERLIN BUNKER, BRITISH FEEL SURE" with subhead. (see images) 

Page 3 has the official statement from British intelligence. 

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1931 Al "Scarface" Capone indictment for tax evasion...

ALBANY EVENING NEWS, New York, June 6, 1931



* Al 'Scarface' Capone

* Income tax evasion indictment

* 1st report - the beginning of the end



Page 2 has a one column heading: "CAPONE FACES 32-YEAR TERM ON TAX COUNT" with subheads. (see images)

Complete in 16 pages, some spine wear with small piece torn away, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally go... See More  

1935 serial killer & rapist Albert Fish trial eve...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, March 11, 1935



* Albert H. Fish trial - creepy acts

* Serial killer, child rapist and cannibal

* "The Boogey Man" - "Gray Man"

* "Brooklyn Vampire" - "Werewolf of Wysteria"



The top of page 11 has a one column heading: "FISH ON TRIAL EVE, WOUNDS HIMSELF" with subheads. (see images) I suspect this is one of the few public... See More  

1935 Russell "Slim Gray" Gibson assassination....

THE DETROIT NEWS, Jan. 9, 1935



* Russell "Slim Gray" Gibson assassination

* American bank robber & gangster - outlaw



The front page has a one column heading: "Trap Snapped On 2 Gunmen" with subhead. (see images) 

Complete with all 32 pages, rag edition in nice condition.



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Killer Charles Starkweather death sentence in 1958...

FITCHBURG SENTINEL, Mass., May 24, 1958 



* Charles Starkweather sentencing

* Death by electric chair w/ photo

* Girlfriend Caril Fugate 



The front page has a two column heading: "Seek New Trial For Killer" with lead-in: "Starkweather Sentenced To Die In Chair" and photo of Starkweather in court. (see images)

Complete with 12 pages, light toning at the margin... See More  

1935 Yreka, California lynching... Clyde Johnson...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 4, 1935



* Yreka, California lynching

* Sheriff Frank R. (Jack) Daw murder

* Clyde L. Johnson hanging 

* Masked men lynch mob 



The top of page 2 has a one column heading: "BANDIT IS LYNCHED BY CALIFORNIA MOB" with subheads. (see images) 

Complete with 30 pages, rag edition in nice condition.



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Charles "Taze" Russellites convictions in 1919...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 16, 1919 



* Rutherford & other Russellites 

* Convictions overturned by the court

* Opposition to World War I - WWI

* Pastor Charles Taze Russell followers

* Christian restorationist minister

* Founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses



The top of page 24 has a one column heading: "HIGH COURT ANNULS RUSSELLITE VERDICT" with subheads. (see ima... See More  

Wright brothers at Fort Myer for airplane tests...

THE EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, June 21, 1909 



* Orville & Wilbur Wright Brothers

* Early airplanes flights aviators

* At Fort Myer, Virginia for tests

* Begin assemblage of airplane 



The top of the front page has a one column heading: "WRIGHTS BEGIN ASSEMBLING AEROPLANE" with subheads. (see images) Related pictorial is on page 2 with heading. Surprisingly this iss... See More  

Death of the Kennedy Family Matriarch, Rose Kennedy...

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, PA, Jan. 23, 1995  The front page has the banner heading: "Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the family matriarch, dies", with the subheading: "SHe passed away peacefully in the presence of several family members, her son Edward M. Kennedy said. She was 104." Also included is a large photo. The article continues on an inside page and included additional r... See More  

Dramatic issue on the execution of Bruno Hauptmann...

THE DAILY MAIL - Extra, Hagerstown, Maryland, April 3, 1936 



* Charles Lindbergh baby kidnapping

* Bruno Hauptmann execution

* Nice headline for display - "same day" report



A quite dramatic front page with the bold banner headline: "BRUNO DIES", and also: "Convicted Murderer Of Lindbergh Baby Goes To The Electric Chair", with a large photo.

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Orrin Porter Rockwell, the Mormon bodyguard...

NILES' NATIONAL REGISTER, Baltimore, March 25, 1843



* Porter Rockwell - Utah Territory lawman

* Bodyguard and friend of Joseph Smith arrest

* Mormons - Mormonism - Latter Day Saints

* Attempted murder of Governor Lilburn Boggs



 The back page has a small report: "Mormons" noting: "Orrin Porter Rockwell, the Mormon, who has been accused of being the person who attemp... See More  

By famed attorney & politician William Jennings Bryan...

THE COMMONER, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 23, 1905  As noted just under the title: "William J. Bryan, Editor & Proprietor". Bryan was an unsuccessful Democratic Presidential nominee in 1896, 1900 and 1908. He was a strong supporter of Prohibition in the 1920s, and energetically attacked Darwinism and evolution, most famously at the Scopes Trial in 1925. Five days after winning the c... See More  

1945 Irma Grese Jewish holocaust trial...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 17, 1945



* German Woman guard Irma Grese 

* Nazi concentration camps leader 

* Bergen-Belsen trials - Jewish holocaust

* "Beast of Belsen" "Hyena of Auschwitz"



Page 6 has a one column heading: "BELSEN WOMAN GUARD WEEPS, DENIES GUILT" (see images)

Complete with 38 pages, rag edition in great condition.



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Leopold - Loeb case... Bobby Franks murder...

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, July 30, 1924



* Leopold & Loeb trial

* Bobby Franks murder

* Thrill Killing case

* Best publication (rare)



The top of the front page has a one column heading on the Leopold - Loeb case with: "STATE ENDING CASE OF FRANKS SLAYERS WITH CONFESSIONS" with subheads. (see images)

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Irma Grese and Josef Kramer death sentence.........

THE NEW YORK TIMES, November 18, 1945



* Josef Kramer & Irma Grese death sentences

* Bergen-Belsen concentration camp leaders

* Jewish Holocaust  - exterminations - atrocities



Near the bottom of the front page is a two column heading: "Kramer and Irma Grese Will Die With 9 Others for Reich Murders" (see images)

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Irma Grese admits guilt in Jewish Holocaust murders...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, Oct. 6, 1945



* Nazi female camp guard Irma Grese

* "Beast of Belsen" "Hyena of Auschwitz"

* Jewish holocaust Atrocities & murders

* Bergen-Belsen & Auschwitz concentration camps



The top of page 7 has a one column heading: "BELSEN GIRL GUARD BLAMES ALL OF SS" with subhead. (see images)

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Spirit photography fraud trial.... ghosts...

THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 29, 1869



* Spirit photography - ghosts

* William H. Mumler fraud trial



Page 5 has an article with testimony headed: "Spirit Photographs" and more. (see images) Text takes up over a full column.



Complete with 8 pages, a little light foxing, generally very nice.

John Dillinger's toy gun escape told....

THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 8, 1934 



* Bank robber John Dillinger

* Crown Point, Indiana Jail

* Famous wooden gun escape told



The back page has an article headed: "Dillinger's Escape Described At Trial" "Warden Testifies About 'Toy Gun' as Deputy Is Accused of Aiding Outlaw". (see) This was one of the most famous escapes from a high security jail in United ... See More  

Huey Long's succession dispute & Al Capone's trial....

ALBANY EVENING NEWS, New York, October 14, 1931



* Huey 'The Kingfish" Long & Paul N. Cyr

* Louisiana governor succession dispute

* Al 'Scarface' Capone's tax evasion trial nears end



The top of the front page has a one column heading: "2 GOVERNORS, 2 AIDES 'RULE' IN LOUISIANA" with subhead and small photo of Long. (see images)

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The historic Clawson polygamy case...

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT, Oct. 16, 1884  



* Rudger Clawson polygamy trial

* Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

* Mormons - Mormonism



Page 2 has: "A Polygamist on Trial" being a report from Salt Lake, Utah Territory,  on the rather famous case of Rudger Clawson.

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President Arthur on the polygamy issue in Utah... The bandit Frank James...

ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCAT, Dec. 5, 1883 



* Mormons and polygamy

* President Chester A. Arthur

* Outlaw Frank James trial



Over half of the front page and page of pg. 2 are taken up with: "The President's Message" being the annual state-of-the-union address of Chester  A. Arthur. Near the end he addresses: "The Mormon Question", noting: "...I fear that i... See More  

From the beginning years of the computer era...

THE DETROIT FREE PRESS, Jan. 8, 1954 



* Early IBM computer invention trials

* International Business Machines Corp.



The front page has a one column heading:  "Electronic Brain Now A Linguist" with lead-in: "Translates" (see images) An interesting article hearkening to the very beginning of the computer era.

Complete with all 32 pages, light toning at the margi... See More