Crimes and Criminals Story Briefs

Were crematoria, at Nazi camps, used to dispose of bodies of people who were gassed at these camps? The issue is still debated, particularly by indivi...

Gavrilo Princip, the assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife (Sophie), is very ill. Knowing he will soon die himself, the young man's action...

Worried that people would begin to doubt that Nazi atrocities had ever occurred, General Eisenhower ordered film makers and photographers to document ...

During the first part of his reign, Tsar Ivan IV was not known as "Ivan the Terrible." That moniker came later, after his first wife died and he emplo...

As police officers were transferring Oswald to another jail, Jack Ruby (a local Dallas businessman) was among the watching crowd. This image depicts R...

Within five years of Jesse James'' death, publishers were releasing young-adult stories about the famous outlaw.

WARNING: THIS IMAGE CONTAINS VERY DISTURBING PICTURES OF THE REMAINS OF EMMETT TILL.

Survivors of Auschwitz have reported that upon arriving at the infamous camp in Poland, Nazi officers greeted arrival trains. Those officers apparentl...

The so-called "magic bullet," found on a stretcher (reportedly used by Governor Connally at Parkland Memorial Hospital), is shown here at high magnifi...

Responding to a call from Dr. King, three white Unitarian Universalist pastors travel to Selma, Montgomery. On the 9th of March, 1965, they are brutal...

Johnny Calvin Brewer saw a man who seemed anxious to avoid the police. Brewer's instincts were right, since the man was Lee Harvey Oswald.

President Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is a member of a famous acting family.