James Francis Thorpe (1887 – 1953) was an American athlete
who won Olympic gold medals and played professional football, baseball, and basketball.

A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe was the first Native
American to win a gold medal for the United States in the
Olympics.

Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports,
he won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics
(one in classic pentathlon and the other in decathlon).

Nicole Brown Simpson, famous football player O.J. Simpson’s
ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman were brutally stabbed to
death outside Nicole’s home in Brentwood, California, in what
quickly becomes one of the most highly publicized trials of the
century. With overwhelming evidence against him, including a
prior record of domestic violence towards Brown, O.J. Simpson
became the chief suspect.

Although he had agreed to turn himself in, Simpson escaped
with  friend A.C. Cowlings in his white Ford Bronco (below) on
June 17. He was carrying his passport, a disguise, and $8,750
in cash. Simpson’s car was spotted that afternoon, but he
refused to surrender immediately. Threatening to kill himself,
he led police in a low-speed chase through the freeways of
Los Angeles as the entire nation watched on television.
Eventually, Simpson gave himself up at his home in
Brentwood.

TIM MAGUIRE

Charles (Chuck) Edward Anderson Berry
(October 18, 1926 – March 18, 2017)

Chuck Berry doing his famous ‘duck walk’.

SANDY KOZEL

The Hindenburg flies over Manhattan on May 6, 1937.

Hindenburg Crash Site Memorial today in Lakehurst, NJ .