Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Natalie Wood (July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981)

Natalie was a actress who began her career in film
as a child and successfully transitioned to young
adult roles.

As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in
Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a part
in John Ford‘s The Searchers (1956).

At the age of only 43, Wood drowned in the Pacific
Ocean near Santa Catalina Island during a break
from production of her would-be comeback film
Brainstorm (1983).

Natalie Wood in WEST SIDE STORY (1961)

MIKE GRACIA

On this day in 1973, a Senate vote confirmed Gerald Ford as
vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned to avoid being indicted for allegedly accepting bribes. Ford was the first
vice president to be selected under the terms of the 25th Amendment.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
(born Leslie Lynch King Jr.)
(July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006)

On this day in 1933, a mob of people in San Jose, California, stormed
the jail where Thomas Thurmond and John Holmes are being held
as suspects in the kidnapping and murder of Brooke Hart, the 22-
year-old son of a local storeowner. The mob of angry citizens
proceeded to lynch the accused men and then pose them for
pictures.         

Brooke Hart

The dead body of Brooke Hart.

Sheriff William Emig (left), suspect Thomas Thurmond,
and an unknown person are pictured.

John M. Holmes (center). 

TIM MAGUIRE

St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C., during
President John F. Kennedy’s funeral.

John F. Kennedy’s funeral: (l-r) Mamie Eisenhower, Harry
S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mrs. Clifton Daniel (Margaret Truman) shortly after the mourning ceremony
in St. Matthews Cathedral in Washington.        
    
    
    
    
   

John F. Kennedy Jr., salutes as the casket of this father, President John F. Kennedy, is carried from St. Matthew’s Cathedral during his funeral services.

A horse-drawn caisson carrying the body of John
Fitzgerald Kennedy passes mourners lining the
streets of Washington from the White House to
the Capitol. 

Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy with their sister in
law Jacqueline Kennedy during the funeral of President
John F Kennedy.

   
John F. Kennedy’s flag-draped casket lay in state in
Washington, D.C.