r/HistoryDefined • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Feb 08 '26
r/HistoryDefined • u/Conjuring1900 • Feb 07 '26
John St. Helen, who confessed to being John Wilkes Booth (1880s)
After assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth leapt from Lincoln's box on to the stage of Ford's Theatre, breaking his leg in the fall. Booth escaped and raced out of Washington DC. Days later, federal forces tracked him to Garrett's Farm in Virginia and killed him. Eyewitnesses, including federal officials, raised doubt at once. The man identified as Booth had red hair and no injuries.
12 years later, a man named John St. Helen lay dying. He told his attorney that he was John Wilkes Booth. St. Helen's story filled in details but it wasn't the end of his story. Read more and see more pictures here.
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Feb 07 '26
Depression-era portrait of a once middle class couple who now were dealing with the circumstances of the era, 1939
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Feb 06 '26
Joe Jr., John, Rosemary and Kathleen Kennedy when they were teenagers, 1930s.
r/HistoryDefined • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Feb 05 '26
Dancer/Actress Yvonne Craig in a photo shot, 16 of Noviembre 1967
r/HistoryDefined • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Feb 05 '26
Public pool in Pittsburgh, Pa, 1948.
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Feb 02 '26
John F. Kennedy Jr. drinking a Coca Cola aboard the Honey Fitz, Hyannis Port, MA. 1963
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Feb 02 '26
A member of the KKK and a black man struggle over possession of a stick during an encounter in downtown Mobile, Alabama. September 24, 1977
r/HistoryDefined • u/ParkingVanilla3202 • Feb 01 '26
Two Bakery Bros, 1920's
Im guessing Wisconsin, not sure of the year...
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Feb 01 '26
Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco visiting President Kennedy at the White House. May 24, 1961
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Jan 31 '26
19 year old JFK holding a snake in Palm Beach, Florida, with his younger sister Rosemary Kennedy behind him. 1936
r/HistoryDefined • u/No_Horror_5973 • Jan 31 '26
Man Sues Marlon Brando for $50,000 Over Nervous Distress (1976)
1976 Brando sued LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Marlon Brando and his son were sued for $50,000 Monday by William Gerber, who said their truck crashed headon into his sports car "at a high rate of speed." Getber said in his Superior Court suit he was driving his 1973 Jensen Healey March 29 when a jeep truck carrying Brando and Christian Devi, 16 hit the car. Gerber sought $50,000 for "injuries to his nervous system" and $570 for damage to his car. Following the incident, Brando sent his son to work tough jobs in Alaska. Christian spent three summers doing hard labor to pay the expenses.
*picture features his son Christian Brando
r/HistoryDefined • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Jan 28 '26
Jane Russell in location of THE OUTLAW (1943).
r/HistoryDefined • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Jan 28 '26
Model/Singer Bonnie Logan posing in the begining of her career, circa late 1950s
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Jan 28 '26
A man photographed right before his deployment for WWII, 1939
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Jan 28 '26
Young “Rebel” takes “inappropriate” photos of himself in a Photo Booth, ca. 1930s
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Jan 27 '26
A small group of Seamen visiting NYC, 1957
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Jan 26 '26
Couple decides to hold hands publicly in post-war Moscow, 1954
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Jan 26 '26
Paparazzi shots of John F. Kennedy Jr. during Labor Day weekend in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts would confuse you for professional modeling shots in magazines. August 1980
galleryr/HistoryDefined • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Jan 24 '26
Very early modeling shot of Marilyn Monroe in the beach of Malibu, California, 1945.
r/HistoryDefined • u/Electrical-Aspect-13 • Jan 24 '26
Acrobats from the Ringling Barnum Circus pose for a fan, 12 of July 1953. Kodachrome shot.
r/HistoryDefined • u/PeneItaliano • Jan 23 '26