Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973)
Jeannette Rankin is widely known as the first woman elected to
Congress. A Republican, she was elected statewide in Montana
in 1916 and again in 1940. she was the only lawmaker to vote
against U.S. entry into both world wars.
Dr. Charles Leale
(AP) The first doctor to reach President Abraham Lincoln after he was
shot in a Washington theater rushed to his ceremonial box and found
him paralyzed, comatose and leaning against his wife. Dr. Charles
Leale ordered brandy and water to be brought immediately. The
Army surgeon had been seated 40 feet from Lincoln at Ford’s
Theater that night in April 1865.
Dr. Leale, who was 23 and just six weeks into his medical practice when
Lincoln died, never spoke or wrote about his experiences again until
1909 in a speech commemorating the centennial of the president’s
birth.
Leale’s long-lost report of efforts to help the mortally wounded president,
written just hours after his death, was discovered late last month by
researchers in a box among correspondence of the U.S. surgeon
general at the National Archives.
Drawing of Lincoln’s Death Bed
legendary Hungarian photojournalist Robert Capa’s footage and
photographs of the Normandy Landings made him famous.
The National D-Day Memorial. Located in Bedford, Virginia
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968)
Robert F. Kennedy speaks to campaign workers at the Ambassador
Hotel minutes before being shot.
Following a brief victory speech delivered just past midnight on Thursday,
June 5 at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, Kennedy was shot by
Sirhan Sirhan. Mortally wounded, he survived for nearly 26 hours, dying
early in the morning of June 6.
Senator Kennedy lies wounded on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel,
after being shot by his assailant. Kennedy’s wife Ethel is shown at
lower left.
Sirhan, Sirhan mug shot shortly after being arrested
Recent mug shot of Sirhan
