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May Ruth Brown met Albert Edward Snyder (né Schneider) in 1915 in New York City, when she was 20 years old and he was a 33-year-old artist. The couple had little in common; Brown, who went by her middle name of Ruth to most people and was known as "Tommy" to close friends, was described as vivacious and gregarious, while Snyder was described as quiet and reserved and very much a "homebody".
Thomas James Howard Jr. (September 11, 1894 – October 8, 1961) [2] was an American photographer who worked at the Washington bureau of P. & A. Photographs during the 1920s. His photograph of the execution of Ruth Snyder in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison, on January 12, 1928, has been called "the most famous tabloid photo of the decade ...
Michael Ralph Paine (June 25, 1928 – March 1, 2018) was an American engineer who became notable after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as he was an acquaintance of Lee Harvey Oswald. His wife, Ruth Paine, housed Oswald’s wife, Marina Oswald, in her home for several months before the assassination until the day after it.
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were one of America's most beloved and widely recognized couples — but their marriage wasn't without scandal — even before they wed. It's ...
Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir directed by Billy Wilder and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. Wilder and Raymond Chandler adapted the screenplay from James M. Cain's novel of the same name, which ran as an eight-part serial in Liberty magazine in 1936.
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January 13, 1928: General Electric Company and NBC make first television broadcast January 12, 1928: Murderer Ruth Snyder executed in the electric chair, secretly photographed by New York's Daily News January 27, 1928: The Los Angeles becomes the first dirigible to make a landing on a ship, touching down on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga
The Washington family arrived in the Colony of Virginia in 1657, [15] when John Washington was shipwrecked. John sailed on the ship the Seahorse. [16] [17] He was a planter, soldier, and politician in colonial Virginia in North America and a lieutenant colonel in the local militia. He settled in Westmoreland County, Virginia.