Jennings was a singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. He
is considered one of the pioneers of the outlaw movement
in country music.
On February 13, 2002, Jennings died in his sleep from
complications of diabetes at his home in Chandler,
Arizona, aged 64.
Jennings worked as a performer and DJ on radio KLLL in
1958.
Waylon Jennings (left) & Buddy Holly in 1959.
On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers
was released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel
Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United
States five years earlier.
The German bridge where Rudolf Abel, top left, and Gary Powers.
A bird’s-eye view of Germany’s Glienicke Bridge, a crossing
the Soviet Union and the United States used to exchange captured spies during the Cold War.
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001)
Timothy McVeigh, a former U.S. Army soldier, was convicted
on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the
1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City.
On April 19, 1995, just after 9 a.m., a massive truck bomb
exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
The blast collapsed the north face of the nine-story building,
instantly killing more than 100 people and trapping dozens
more in the rubble. Emergency crews raced to Oklahoma City
from across the country, and when the rescue effort finally
ended two weeks later, the death toll stood at 168 people,
including 19 young children who were in the building’s day-
care center at the time of the blast.
Oklahoma City firefighter Chris Fields holds
Baylee Almon on April 19, 1995.
Mugshot of McVeigh taken after
his arrest.