ROSS SIMPSON
Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
(February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011)
Elizabeth Taylor was a British and American actress. She
began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and
was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood
cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world’s highest
paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public
figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film
Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen
legend of Classic Hollywood cinema.
1944
1963
BRACE BEEMER (center) was original announcer then the second actor to portray The Lone Ranger on the radio
series.
The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger premiered on
radio January 30, 1933 on WXYZ radio in Detroit, Michigan
and later on the Mutual Broadcasting System radio network
and then on NBC’s Blue Network (which became ABC, which
broadcast the show’s last new episode on September 3, 1954).
On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops entered Auschwitz, Poland,
freeing the survivors of the network of concentration camps—
and finally revealing to the world the depth of the horrors
perpetrated there.
Auschwitz was really a group of camps, designated I, II, and III.
There were also 40 smaller “satellite” camps. It was at Auschwitz
II, at Birkenau, established in October 1941, that the SS created a complex, monstrously orchestrated killing ground: 300 prison
barracks; four “bathhouses” in which prisoners were gassed;
corpse cellars; and cremating ovens. Thousands of prisoners
were also used for medical experiments overseen and performed
by the camp doctor, Josef Mengele (below) the “Angel of Death.”
Josef Rudolf Mengele
(16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979)
Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis go on trial in Nuremberg,
Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II
began on November 20, 1945.
The Nuremberg trials were conducted by an international
tribunal made up of representatives from the United States,
the Soviet Union, France and Great Britain. It was the first
trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges
ranging from crimes against peace, to crimes of war, to
crimes against humanity.
Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, the British member, presided
over the proceedings, which lasted 10 months and consisted
of 216 court sessions.
Sir Frederick Geoffrey Lawrence
(5 April 1902 – 3 February 1967)
Hermann Goering in the witness box during the Nuremberg trials.