Mount Rushmore was truly one of America’s greatest creations. In fact, it was even supposed to be much larger than it originally was. In this photo, we see the monument’s designer, Gutzon Borglum, scrutinizing the scale model. Sadly, this scale model was never continued because the project ran out of money.
Mount Rushmore was designated to celebrate the great presidents of the nation and the greatness of the country they delivered with them. The completion of the memorial site took four years to fulfill, and it represents the first 150 years of great American history. To this day, it is one of the most visited places in the country.
Inejiro Asanuma
Inejiro Asanuma was a Japanese politician who was quite known for his controversial socialism and advocacy on the post-war in Japan. He also was known for supporting the Chinese regime at the time. In this rare photo, Asanuma is seen attacked by a young seventeen-year-old with a sword during a televised debate on October 12, 1960.
This highlighted event in Japanese history sparked a mass demonstration and caused the disintegration of the Japan Socialist Party, which eventually was resurrected as the Social Democratic Party in 1996. The young attacker was Otoya Yamaguchi, and right after he took Asunama's life, he took his own.
Babies for Sale
Kim Cotton made history, and the world before her was very different than what it is today. Cotton was the first surrogate mother, leaving an unerasable mark on the pages of history. She is from the UK and working for an agency; she was paid for carrying the child of another couple.
She never met the people who would soon be the parents of the baby she carried, unlike today when many families form a strong relationship with the surrogate mother. Her actions made history with the NHS ( British Health System) after surrogate services partly sponsored by the government.
The Last Known Public Execution in America
This rare photo is the last known public execution in America, which took place on August 14th, 1936. It was the execution of Rainey Bethea. This public performance contributed to the end of public executions in the United States forever. This was an item of personal interest and controversy as it involved several mistakes and chaos.
Florence Thompson, who was at the time the sheriff of Davies County, was the one who was supposed to execute the hanging of Bethea; however, when former policeman of Louisville, Arthur L. Hash, offered to do it instead, Thompson willingly accepted. Hash showed up drunk and missed his shot creating disarray out of what was already a controversial event.
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali was no doubt one of the greatest boxers of all time. Before he became who he was, he was named Cassius Clay, a young man from Louisville, Kentucky, who was destined for great things. In this rare photo, we see him training and posing underwater at the Sir John Hotel in Miami in 1961.
Muhamad Ali was also known as "The Greatest," and even to this day, he is regarded as one of the most significant sportsmen of the 20th century. The man who started off as an amateur boxer at the age of 12 changed the way people saw boxing and left us with the wonderful quat; "Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. You can't hit what your eyes don't see."