James Foley (December 28, 1953 – May 6, 2025)

Famed Hollywood director James Foley has passed away after
a battle with brain cancer. Many know James’ work but may
not even realize it. In addition to directing films like Glengarry
Glenn Ross and two films in the Fifty Shades franchise.

James worked with Madonna several times for her iconic music
videos. He directed videos for Papa Don’t Preach, Live to Tell,
and True Blue in the 1980s. James also served as the director
for Madonna’s 1987 feature film Who’s That Girl.
(Hollywood Reporter)

1992

Al Pacino and James Foley.

Hindenburg begins to fall seconds after catching fire.

The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the
pride of Nazi Germany, burst into flames upon touching its
mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937.

On May 4, 1970, in Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their
weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students and wounding nine.

The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the
conflict in Vietnam, and further galvanized the anti-war movement.

Two days earlier, on May 2, National Guard troops were called to
Kent to suppress students rioting in protest of the Vietnam War
and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia.

Some of the protesters, refusing to yield, responded by throwing
rocks and verbally taunting the troops (below).

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972)

After nearly five decades as director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover died, leaving the powerful
government agency without the administrator who had been
largely responsible for its existence and shape.

Educated as a lawyer and a librarian, Hoover joined the
Department of Justice in 1917 and within two years had
become special assistant to Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer.

May 20, 1972

The auctioned-off letter was dated April 10 and postmarked
April 12 – just days before disaster struck.

(FOX NEWS) – A "prophetic" letter written aboard the ill-fated RMS
Titanic ocean liner has been auctioned in England for a stunning
sum.

The letter was sold by Wiltshire-based Henry Aldridge & Son Ltd.
on April 26. It was written by Archibald Gracie IV on April 10, 1912
– just five days before the ship sank on April 15.

Gracie penned the note on April 10, when the ship left Southampton, England. The letter was postmarked in London two days later, on
April 12.

"It is a fine ship but I shall await my journey’s end before I pass
judgment on her," Gracie wrote compellingly in the letter.

"The Oceanic is like an old friend and while she does not possess
the elaborate style and varied amusement of this big ship, still her seaworthy qualities and yacht-like appearance make me miss her,"
he added.

"As dawn broke, Col Gracie returned to New York City aboard the
rescue ship Carpathia, where he began writing about what he had
been through."

Originally predicted to fetch the equivalent of $80,000, the
103-year-old piece of paper was sold for an eye-popping 
$399,000.

Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge called the letter "one of the
finest of its type known."

Though Gracie survived the shipwreck, his health was
severely impacted by the disaster. He suffered from
hypothermia and various physical injuries on the day
of the sinking. In Dec. 1912, he fell into a coma before
dying of complications from diabetes.

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