SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway and
Gray, demonstrate their “Panopticon,” the first movie projector developed  in the United States.

Although motion pictures had been shown in the United States
for several years using Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope, the films
could only be viewed one at a time in a peep-show box and not
projected to a large audience. Brothers Grey and Otway Latham,
the founders of a company that produced and exhibited films of
prize fights using the Kinetoscope, called on Woodville, their
father, and W.K.L. Dickson, an assistant in the Edison Lab, to
help them develop a device that would project life-sized images 
onto a screen in order to attract larger audiences.

 

  The Lathams: Otway, Woodville, Gray.

CAMILLE
BOHANNON

The Columbine High School massacre was a mass shooting that  occurred on this day in 1999, at Columbine High School in
Columbine, Colorado.The perpetrators, twelfth grade (senior)
students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, murdered 12 students
and one teacher and injured 21 additional people trying to escape
the school building. Ten students were killed in the library, where 
the pair subsequently committed suicide. At the time, it was the 
deadliest shooting at a high school in United States history.

Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold (right) recorded on the high
school’s surveillance cameras in the cafeteria, 11 minutes before
their suicides.

ED DONAHUE

On this day in 1995, the Oklahoma City bombing was a
domestic terrorist truck bombing on the Alfred P. Murrah
Federal Buildingin downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Perpetrated by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the
bombing happened at 9:02 am and killed at least 168 people, 
injured more than 680 others, and destroyed one – third of
the building.

One of the many injured in the bombing attack.

A firefighter holding a dying toddler in his arms.

Bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh (center) is escorted from
the courthouse in Perry, Oklahoma.