MIKE GRACIA
The first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL
when a test call was placed by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite,
from the Haleyville, Alabama, City Hall, to U.S. Rep. Tom Bevill, at the city’s
police station located in the same building.
ROSS SIMPSON
1929
ROSS SIMPSON
TIM MAGUIRE
First LIFE magazine cover from 1936 with logo and photo
of Fort Peck Dam’s spillway by Margaret Bourke-White.
Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971)
Margaret Burke-White is best known as the first foreign photographer
permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the first American female
war photojournalist, and the first female photographer for Henry Luce‘s
Life magazine.
TIM MAGUIRE
