Patty Hearst, born February 20, 1954. She went from heiress to kidnap victim to brainwashed revolutionary. Upon her arrest in 1975, she famously declared her occupation as “urban guerrilla.”
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F.B.I. training, California, November 25, 1958.
Broderick Crawford and Ruth Roman in a publicity still for Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
Thessaloniki, Greece, 1948. “22 year old ex-grocery clerk now in training to be a Greek commando.” Photo by Dmitri Kessel for Life magazine. Photo by Dmitri Kessel for Life magazine.
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Northern Ireland, 1972: “Members of the 3rd Battalion the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) searching the boot of a car at a checkpoint in County Down in January 1972. The UDR was a military force established in 1970 to replace the Ulster Special Constabulary.” (Imperial War Museum)
Ambonese soldier of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army during the 1945-1949 Indonesian War of Independence. And who are the Ambonese, you wonder?
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Jewish partisans during World War II. That is photographer Faye Schulman on the bottom right.
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U.S. Army 1st Lt. Kingston M. Winget in Chipyong-ni, Korea, 1951.
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Alabama cops with Chicago style — Officers of the Alabama Highway Patrol train with Tommy guns at a firing range, circa 1930-1949.
African-American soldiers and a British policeman discuss a Tommy gun. England, 1942.
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Scenes from the aftermath of 1929’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre — On the left, Chicago Chief of Detectives William Shoemaker shows off the weapons used in the infamous slaughter. On the right, the original caption reads “Mrs. Myrtle Gorman, of 434 Roscoe St., common-law wife of Peter Gusenberg, who was murdered when rival gangsters mowed him and six companions down.” Ouch.
A 45 single released in 1967 by the British band, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, slightly better known as the Artwoods. The A-side is “Brother Can You Spare a Dime”; the B-side is “Al’s Party”.
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A Japanese-American soldier of the 100th Infantry Battalion (第100歩兵大隊) in Italy during the Second World War. The 100th still exists today, based at Honolulu, Hawaii. The unit is known historically as the “Purple Heart Battalion”, with the motto “Remember Pearl Harbor”.
Terrorism comes to the Super Bowl, via blimp, in a lobby card for Black Sunday (1977).
Vietnam 1963: A South Vietnamese trooper with waterfowl and trench sweeper.
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