Bing Crosby: May 3, 1903
- October 14, 1977 died of a heart attack age 74. Bing Crosby name will always be synonymous with
the classic song White Christmas. Crosby's most successful recording and
the number one selling single for many years, until Elton John changed the lyric to Candle in the
Wind as a tribute to Princess Diana.
Bing recorded more than
1700 songs for commercial release from 1926 to 1977. He would also
go on to be successful in movies as well, most notably his
"Road" movies with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour. He also
won an Academy award for Going My Way
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August 16, 1977
Elvis
was found dead
in his bathroom at Graceland.
This picture was taken by Elvis' cousin who was offer a deal by
National Enquirer to photograph Elvis in his coffin. The payment was meager
compared to the millions the Enquirer reaped for the
cover story.
Story behind the picture
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Nick Ut's 1972 image of a naked girl fleeing her napalmed picture of Kim Phuc running from a Napalm attack as a memorable picture vividly depicting the art of war.
Photographer Huynh Cong Ut, known by his colleagues as Nick, was working there as a photo journalist for Associated Press at the time and took a number of photographs of the villagers trying to escape the napalm. This one,
epitomizing the savagery and tragedy of the conflict, won him the Pulitzer Prize and became one of the most published photos of the Vietnam
war
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Combat Photographer Eddie Adams who lifted his camera in synch with the general's gun, took the famed photo the nanosecond the bullet passed through the man's skull. The deadly blast from the snub-nosed gun poised inches from the scruffy, grimacing target conveys a violent echo off the
page.
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Mullet Hairstyle all the rage
in the late 1970s |
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Rod Stewart |
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December 21, 1970,
Elvis Presley visited President Richard Nixon at the White House,
Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Elvis, who wrote Nixon
a six-page letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting
that he be made a "Federal Agent-at-Large" in the Bureau of
Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
The events leading up to and after the
meeting are detailed in documentation and photographs at
Graceland which include
Elvis' handwritten letter, memoranda from Nixon
staff and aides, and the thank-you note from Nixon for the gifts
(including a Colt 45 pistol and family photos) that Presley brought
with him to the Oval Office.
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Black and White Photography
