For four days in September 1971, 1,281 prisoners held 39 guards hostage in protest of the horrific conditions at Attica prison. What followed was a disastrous police raid. This image, captured from a helicopter flying above the Attica Correctional Facility, shows smoke emanating from one of the prison's buildings. The inmates (many of whom can be seen in the background) burned down the prison chapel on the first day of the riots in September 1971. Read More...
According to a new book, John Wilkes Booth was dating five different women at the time he was shot. Amazon / John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Loved Him book cover; Maggie Mitchell, Fanny Brown, and Helen Western
Apparently, the expression is true: Everyone loves a bad boy. At least, according to a new book on Abraham Lincoln‘s assassin, it is. John Wilkes Booth and the Women Who Love Him written by E. Read More...
New York City Ballet's George Balanchine, co-founder of the company and its artistic director of 35 years, joins principal dancer Arthur Mitchell in rehearsing for The Four Temperaments in 1963. Martha Swope/NYPL Another New York City Ballet principal dancer, Suzanne Farrell, rehearses Slaughter on Tenth Avenue with Arthur Mitchell while George Balanchine looks on. Farrell was a muse of Balanchine's, and he created many roles specifically for her. Martha Swope/NYPL Victoria Simon and Deni Lamont, soloists with the New York City Ballet, rehearse for Bugaku, an original ballet choreographed by Balanchine featuring music by Japanese composer Toshiro Mayuzumi, in 1963. Read More...
