A Prisoner Was Used To Test the Safety of This Roller Coaster
This sounds highly inhumane, doesn’t it? At any rate, this was happening only a handful of decades in the past. Back then, prisoners were used to try out the safety of roller coasters before it was opened to the public.
A Prisoner Was Used To Test the Safety of This Roller Coaster
Not much is known about the inmate in this photo. However, it is generally believed that he was put on death row and simply waiting for his execution day. That sounds terribly frightening and sad to us.
Lyndon Johnson And John F. Kennedy During the Cuban Missile Crisis
If you were old enough to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, you would know how frightening it had been. The 13-day exchange between the Soviet Union and the U.S. lasted from October 16 to 28, 1962.
Lyndon Johnson And John F. Kennedy During the Cuban Missile Crisis
For most people, this event is considered the nearest the Cold War came to breaking out into an actual nuclear war. In the photo above, you can see Lyndon Johnson and John F. Kennedy talking about the situation at hand.