Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens finds himself the object of extreme interest on the part of a group of boys, as he trots back to his quarters through Hyde Park in London, August 19, 1936. (Photo by AP Photo)





N.C. Dezendorf, wife of the general manager of the Electro-Motive division of General Motors, christens the new lightweight “Aerotrain” at the company's locomotive works in La Grange, Ill. on August 22, 1955. (Photo by Edward Kitch/AP Photo)





Pfc. Stanley Hughes, of Canon City, Colorado, the Nobel Lord “Rish-Tush” in the GI presentation of the “Mikado” at the Ernie Pyle Theatre in Tokyo, Japan on August 25, 1946, awaits his cue before going on the stage. The special services detachment production unit of the Eighth Army in Japan produced the show. (Photo by Charles Gorry/AP Photo)





This young Miss takes time out for a bit of comedy as she tries on a blond wig she found in Salvation Army clothing center for hurricane Camille refugees at Gulfport, Miss., on August 25, 1969. (Photo by Joe Holloway/AP Photo)





In this March 25, 1935 file photo, children cover their faces during a swirling dust storm while pumping water in Springfield, Colo. The Dust Bowl was manmade, born of bad farming techniques across millions of acres in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas. Now, even as bad as the drought is in some of those same states, soil conservation practices developed in the aftermath of the Dust Bowl have kept the nightmarish storms from recurring. (Photo by AP Photo)





A Greek Cypriot patrol boat burns fiercely, after an attack by Turkish Air Force jets, off Xeros, Cyprus, on July 8, 1964. Six of its crew were reported to have been killed and 15 others wounded. (Photo by AP Photo)





Father Troy Perry, center, who married Father Robert M. Clement, left and his partner John Noble, right, joke after the wedding at 33 Wooster Street, New York, July 18, 1971. (Photo by Ron Frehm/AP Photo)





The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is a public work relief program for unemployed young men age 18-24, providing unskilled manual labor related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural areas of the United States, July 26, 1940. (Photo by AP Photo)





George Braunsdorf, left, 6 feet 4 inches and Joe Damone, 5 feet 1 inch, demonstrate a pipe called the “Double Ender” in New York, June 2, 1949. According to its manufacturer, the pipe was designed as a means of conserving tobacco by a couple of pipe smokers down on their luck, or, sharing a smoke at a ball game. (Photo by Ed Ford/AP Photo)





A no-holds-barred fight scene between actresses Jane Wyman (hand in foreground) and Margot Stevenson in the movie “Flight Angels”, June 3, 1940. (Photo by AP Photo)





A man tries to calm a woman in summer heat and the crushing crowds in St. Peter's Square, June 6, 1963, shortly before Pope John XXIII's body was carried out so the public night pay a final tribute. (Photo by AP Photo)





The Southern Cross being towed out onto the airfield at Oakland, Ca., on June 8, 1928, before setting off to Australia. Captain Charles Kingsford Smith and Charles Ulm will be attempting the 7,500 mile record flight. (Photo by AP Photo)





After an unsuccessful attempt to extinguish one of the biggest oil fires in Kuwait, the well known as “Hollywood” continues to pour black smoke into the atmosphere as if it were three fires, June 10, 1991 in Kuwait City. As the firefighters put out the blazing wells, the pressure increases for the remaining ones, making the flames spurt higher and more dangerous to tackle. (Photo by Martn Nangle/AP Photo)





Saleem Ahmed, 12, who wanted his photograph taken with Neeli the tiger as a backdrop, is attacked, Tuesday, June 17, 1997 at the zoo in Lahore, Pakistan. Ahmed was uninjured in the attack though his clothes were shredded by the two-year-old Bengali tiger which was presented to the zoo as a gift from the Bangladesh government in 1996. (Photo by K.M. Choudary/AP Photo)





Joe Louis gets a helping hand from 4 year old Butch Hopper who carries his gloves from the ring at Louis training camp, at Pompton lakes, N.J., June 21, 1948 after the heavyweight champ finished training. (Photo by Harry Harris/AP Photo)





Corp. Clayton W. Hamberger, right, and Trooper Eric A. Bornemann of the Pennsylvania State police pose with a radar machine on the fender of their car underneath a newly erected radar speed check sign on route 30 near York, Pennsylvania on June 30, 1960. A motorist can not be arrested on the basis of a radar check but State Police are using the electronic device to single out speeding motorists for warnings. (Photo by Paul Vathis/AP Photo)





A pocket size television set that can go anywhere and claims to be the world's smallest TV, was presented at Earls Court, London on September 1, 1966. Miss Bari Lyn Chadwich of Cheshire looks at the Sinclair Micro vision set, designed by Clive Sinclair, a 26 year old Cambridge electronic engineer. Britain's midget TV set is powered by six ordinary penlight batteries. The rectangular face plate of the cathode tube has a diagonal measurement of two inches. The circuit uses 20 transistors, and covers channels 1 to 13 in Britain. (Photo by AP Photo)





14-year-old Barry Pariser, checks on the movable ferris wheel which he built out of toothpicks as his sister Linda looks on in New York, September 6, 1948. This is the young hobbyist's most ambitious project, which took 27,000 toothpicks and four months to build. Barry began his toothpick building at the age of ten, at the suggestion of his father. (Photo by Ed Ford/AP Photo)





Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, pathologist, points to an illustration showing bullets used in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as he testified before the House Assassination Committee in Washington, September 7, 1978. Wecht said he could not subscribe to the so-called “magic bullet theory” – that one bullet could have gone through Kennedy's neck and then struck Connally, critically wounding him. (Photo by John Duricka/AP Photo)





The bumper cars at Palisades Amusement Park, New Jersey, May 31, 1945. (Photo by Charles K. Lucas/AP Photo)