Nickerson Agonistes
(L) Army ballistic missile expert Col. John C. Nickerson, Jr., averts his eyes as a wire service photographer captures him leaving court martial proceedings at… Read More »Nickerson Agonistes
(L) Army ballistic missile expert Col. John C. Nickerson, Jr., averts his eyes as a wire service photographer captures him leaving court martial proceedings at… Read More »Nickerson Agonistes
As the director of the Young Men’s and Young Women’s Hebrew Association of Washington Heights and Inwood, Hans Epstein (fourth from right at rear) wanted… Read More »A Glimpse of Inwood in the 1950s
Sunday morning, I cracked open my notebook, powered up my recorder, logged into Skype, and soon found myself screen to screen with my interviewee. Proctor… Read More »Interview with Former Plycraft Employee
An image of the third floor hallway, outside of the apartment where Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert were murdered on August 28, 1963. The photograph was in… Read More »Inside the Robles Case Files
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