Al Capone. In one of the several biographies I read about Al Capone, the author made mention that during Al's time at Alcatraz, an evangelist was allowed to preach there. When he gave the invitation at the end, for those who felt led to do so, a mind-dishelved Al Capone shuffled forward to ask Jesus Christ to forgive him and come into his heart and be his Savior and Lord. Al's mind, due to syphilis contracted around age 14, had given him the mind of a 12 year old. It's never too late.
Rube Burrow, 1890
Rube Burrow and other photos of Reuben Houston Burrow and the burrow family. Put faces to the names of your loved ones at AncientFaces.
Top 20 Great US Civil War Photographs - Listverse
If you ever saw Ken Burns’ “The Civil War” documentary, you might recall it mentioned during the final episode how many photos, daguerreotypes and tintypes were destroyed after the war. Some were used as glass for greenhouses. Among those that survive, though, are some pretty startling ones. (At least for nerdy historians like me.) This
Before he was famous: Rare pictures of Hollywood icon James Dean
Largely unseen photographs from a 1955 LIFE magazine shoot peel back the carefully constructed portrait of a troubled artist to reveal James Dean to be as comfortable back home on the family farm as he was practicing the plié in a dance studio.