Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is Considered one of the
greatest songwriters of all time. Dylan has been a major
figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year career.
He revolutionized rock and folk music with songs like
"Blowin’ in the Wind."
With an estimated more than 125 million records sold
worldwide, he is one of the best-selling musicians of all
time and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is 84
years old today
FROM THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (1953)
The word Ethyl was short for tetraethyl, an compound added to
gasoline to boost its octane rating. It was marketed as a way to
avoid engine knock in automobile engines as far back as the
1920s. It was also referred to as premium gasoline.
Recognized for heroically protecting the American flag during
the Civil War, Army Sgt. William Harvey Carney receives the
Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest military decoration, on
May 23, 1900.
The first Black American service member to earn the award,
Carney was born into slavery in Virginia in 1840.
Although a handful of other Black service members had already
received the medal, Carney’s award celebrated an earlier action.
He was one of many Civil War-era honorees to be granted the
medal decades later.
On May 23, 1934, notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde
Barrow were shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police
near Sailes, Louisiana.
Bonnie Parker met the charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when
she was 19 years old and her husband (she married when she
was 16) was serving time in jail for murder.
Shortly after they met, Barrow was imprisoned for robbery. Parker
visited him every day, and smuggled a gun into prison to help
him escape, but he was soon caught in Ohio and sent back to jail.
When Barrow was paroled in 1932, he immediately hooked up with Parker, and the couple began a life of crime together.
After the ambush, the bullet-riddled Ford V8 was towed
away and eventually became a macabre tourist attraction.
It was displayed at various fairs and carnivals, drawing
crowds fascinated by the notorious couple’s bloody
demise.
The Bonnie and Clyde death car on display today.
