Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 327, click here.
1. Walt Disney with the original Mickey Mouse Club lineup, 1955.
2. Johnny Clem, who joined the Union Army as a drummer boy at age 10. Clem became a legend when he shot and killed a Confederate Colonel at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863.
3. A trip to Walmart, Midwestern United States, the early 1970s.
4. Ms. Lee Merlin, the winner of the “Miss Atomic Bomb” pageant in Las Vegas in the 1950s.
5. Ethel, Jackie, and John Kennedy taking a selfie, 1954.
6. A French man reacts to trying Coca-Cola for the first time in the 1950s.
7. FIBA allowed professional basketball players to compete in the Olympics for the first time at the 1992 Games.
The best players in the NBA teamed up to represent the USA, winning the gold medal with arguably the best team ever assembled aka Dream Team.
8. New York City Mayor, Jimmy Walker poses with members of the Blackfeet Nation Tribe on the steps of City Hall, 23 October 1927.
9. U.S. naval ship intercepts a Soviet freighter bound for Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
10. Refugees of the Armenian genocide in Palestine, 1918.
