Moments before he passed away...
Moments before he passed away...
Too bad that President Ford's last public picture has George Bush in it! LOL
Lewis Payne, one of Lincoln's assassin's, not long before his execution:
Wow, great pic SM
Cheers, BB. Here's another of Big Foot, leader of the Sioux, captured in death after the battle of Wounded Knee, 1890:
Surprised no one's posted this one yet. It's Lee Harvey Oswald as he's getting shot
Super cool stuff, thanks for posting.
By the way, i was wondering, did Tiny Tim died during his show or shortly after finishing it? What did he died from?
A couple more here:
First, one of the 20th Century's most barbaric dicatator's, Pol Pot.
Followed by the final journey of one Howard Hughes.
Bonnie and Clyde.
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Cool, loving the ones of Bonnie and Clyde
I have seen a picture of Bonnie on the slab with her breasts exposed, I guess as some sort of final humiliation.
"Everybody is born, and everybody dies. Being born wasn't so bad , was it?"
Peter the Hermit
These pics are great.Thank you.
The great Charlie Chaplin pictured in 1975 two years before his death at 88.
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Here's Ray Charles several months before he died.
Pancho Villa shortly after his murder
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Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss being executed April 16/1947:
The last public pic of John Wayne
Taken at the 1979 Academy Awards his last public apperance. Wayne would die of stomach cancer 2 months later
Here is Daniel Webster four months before his death in 1852. Three days before he died a very drunken Daniel (he would drink a quart of whiskey before noon each day for 50 years!) got on his buckboard to ride to town. He lost control and fell out of the wagon at high speed and the back wheel rolled over his head. He died three days later of brain swelling.
"Everybody is born, and everybody dies. Being born wasn't so bad , was it?"
Peter the Hermit
Here is the very last photo of Charlie Chaplin in November of 1977. This picture was taken for the family Christmas Cards. Chaplin died that Christmas. He was still newsworthy as a corpse as it was stolen by ransomers. The ghouls were caught and Chaplin was re-intered with a couple of tons of concrete.
"Everybody is born, and everybody dies. Being born wasn't so bad , was it?"
Peter the Hermit
Nice picture of Charlie
I'm doing this from memory, but I think Chaplin had been dead about a month when they stole the body and the ghouls didn't have the body more than a couple of weeks. Appearantly they were not intellegent people and were easily tracked down. IIRC they didn't even open up the box while they had it. Oona Chaplin refused to deal them them and said in effect "keep it."
"Everybody is born, and everybody dies. Being born wasn't so bad , was it?"
Peter the Hermit
The documentry about the above photograph which I saw on UK TV is now available on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXnA9FjvLSU
It contains some scenes that people might find distressing.