Here are this week’s interesting historical photos. For part 365, click here.
1. Fred Rogers performing a “bedside solo show” for a 7-year-old Beth Usher during her coma after undergoing surgery for “Rasmussen’s encephalitis” at the John Hopkins Childrens’ Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, February 1987.
2. Jimmy Carter working with his sons on his peanut farm, in 1960.
3. The Kiss of Life – A utility worker giving mouth-to-mouth to a co-worker after he contacted a low voltage wire, in Jacksonville, Florida, 1967.
4. A blind couple walking with their child in the streets of Budapest, 1984.
5. The US 3rd Army soldier guarding loot found stored in the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) at the Ellingen Castle in Southern Germany, 24 April 1945.
6. CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, 1953.
He gained fame covering the London Blitz during WWII. He later reported on McCarthyism and migrant workers. He even hosted a celebrity interview show.
7. Vancouver’s first lifeguard, Joe Fortes, is pictured here in 1905 at English Bay Beach.
Fortes is officially credited with saving 29 swimmers from drowning on his watch.
8. The city center of Rotterdam was almost leveled by a carpet bombing on 14 May 1940.
9. Members of B Company, 2nd Battalion, U.S. Army 14th Infantry, move out after clearing and torching a hut during Operation Wahiawa, Xa Ba Phuoc Province, South Vietnam, 20 May 1966.
10. George H.W. Bush holds a young George W. Bush in New Haven, in April 1947.
