Infamous Photos Show A Darker Side To History
By | September 20, 2021
Survivors of 1972 of the infamous Andes plane crash. The passengers resorted to cannibalism to survive 72 days in the snow
History may be full of wonderful and exciting moments, but the following photos show just how dark and disturbing the past can be. Even the most beautiful of these rare photos from the past contains something eerie if you look close enough.
You won't find these dark images or their disturbing stories in history books. As chilling as these photos are if you fully take them in you'll see a silver lining in their darkness. These recently uncovered photos will not only shock you, they'll provide insight into some of our darkest times. You'll see what life was really like in some of the lowest times in history which can really put today in perspective...
Each one of these eerie photos from the past shows a dark side to history, but they also show just how much better off we are today.
When Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed along the Argentine-Chilean border in the Andes on October 13, 1972, 29 members of the Uruguayan rugby team and their families were stranded. The group had little hope for survival but they did what they had to do to keep going for another day. During the 72 days that the were stuck in the Andes the group was forced to resort to cannibalism to survive.
Survivor Eduardo Strauch told NPR that as bad as the nearly three months were in the Andes, it was the first few days that were the worst:
As you can imagine, it has been the most awful, terrible days of my life. It was awful and long nights. We have a very small space. We were 29 people at the first. And we have no warm clothes, no water. We have to melt snow. It was very difficult because the weather was very cold. And the snow was all over the kerosene of the engines of the plane. We are surrounded with our friends, who died. And that first night was really impossible to describe.
Bob Ross in the early 1970s before the paint and before the afro
Referred to as "Grand Theft Bob," Bob Ross, Inc. went into overdrive with the licensing of Ross' likeness following his death on July 4, 1995. Regardless of the fact that Ross made multiple changes to his will concerning his fortune in the months before his death, his estate was essentially locked out of any decisions about products featuring his name thanks to a lawsuit. In the 2010s an agreement was finally reached between Steve Ross and the family operating Bob Ross, Inc., that allowed Ross' name and likeness to be used as long as Steve could work in public under his own name without fear of being slapped with a hefty lawsuit. It's sad to think that such a messy situation came out of a guy who just wanted to show his viewers how to paint a few beautiful trees.
Erika Eleniak on the set of Baywatch
Eleniak says that leaving Baywatch was one of the best decisions she ever made, specifically because she was less worried about her on-camera weight during production. She later said:
My exit was Pamela Anderson’s entrance. I feel like she made the show. And I know they were thrilled to have her. So it just worked out really well.
The Hasanlu lovers died around 800 B.C. and were discovered in 1972
In 800 BCE Teppe Hasanlu was burned to the ground by an invading army, although it's not clear who the army was. The entire population of the are was completely destroyed so it's likely that these two people passed away during the army's sacking. The image is both chilling and beautiful.
Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves, 1991
Andrew Morton, the author behind Diana: Her True Story—In Her Own Words wrote of this meeting:
[By shaking the patient's hand Diana had] done more than anyone alive to remove the stigma surrounding the deadly AIDS virus… While she was not able to fully articulate it, Diana had a humanitarian vision for herself that transcended the dull dutiful traditional royal engagements.
Cliff House in San Francisco, 1907
On Christmas night 1894, the house was burned down after 31 years in existence all because the flue system wasn't working correctly. As the house burned manager J. M. Wilkens tried to rescue the guest register, a book that included the signatures of dignitaries from across the world, but he was unsuccessful and those names are lost to time. The house was rebuilt from the ground up in 1896.
Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian Liberto with their daughters in the early 1960s.
John Carter Cash said of his father after his passing:
My dad was full of laughter, full of joy and full of spirit. He would always rather laugh than cry, no matter what anybody else said, that’s the kind of guy he was. He had a great sense of humor and a great love. If I had to say one enduring trait he had, my dad was a very kind man. He was forgiving, he was loving and always gentle. That’s who he was and that’s what remains.
Marlene Dietrich being detained at a train station in Paris for violating the ban on women wearing trousers. (1933)
Not one to be bullied by a bunch of French police Dietrich put on her best suit, a men's coat, and a very cool beret and sunglasses before she stepped off the boat and took the chief of police by the arm and strode down the street. That's seriously cool. In case you were wondering, it was still illegal for women to wear trousers in France until 2013.
Little John F. Kennedy Jr. waiting for his Dad, President John F. Kennedy to land at Camp David, Maryland in October 1963
It's likely that the young Kennedy wanted to fly away with his father but that was never going to be possible. As the leader of the United States of America there are some things that he just had to do on his own. It's a shame that men of this stature have to choose between family and country, but it's the sacrifice that's made to be president.
At photo taken of Stalin inside of the Kremlin shows the very moment he was informed that Germany had began their invasion of the Soviet Union
Stalin was certain that Hitler would never attack Russia because he felt that it didn't make sense for the German leader to fight on two fronts. The attack sent Stalin into a tailspin. He was so unsure of himself and what to do that he refused to issue orders until a collection of Soviet generals approached him and insisted that he lead the country.
Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder, 1989
At the time of the incident Pryor had first, second, and third degree burns on more than half of his body. Pryor allegedly ran a solid mile directly after the explosion, but he was found by police officers who didn't at first recognize the comedian. One officer told UPI:
He told me when I tried to get him to stop, 'I can't stop! I can't stop! I'll die if I stop'. I did not want to touch him for fear of injuring him.
Prior survived the incident, but he was never the same.
FDR using help to get out of his car, One of the few photos that show his paralytic illness
At home, FDR often made his way around in a small and durable wheelchair that he designed himself but in public he did everything he could to make himself look strong. When "walking" he often used a cane to balance one side of his body and the arm of an aide while swinging his legs to make it look like he was walking. Along with this strange maneuver he had the Secret Service on watch for anyone who was taking photos that could expose his illness.
Into the Jaws of Death, 6th of June, 1944
Obviously that wasn't the case. The Allied forces used every trick in the book to not only make it to the beach and take out the German military, but they did it with a minimal loss of life. These brave men soldiered into the jaws of death but many of them escaped to tell the tale another day.
Wedding rings that were removed from holocaust victims before they were executed
The original caption of this haunting photo reads:
Every wedding ring here represents a home broken and a human murdered by the Germans. These are only a small portion of the thousands of wedding rings the Germans removed from their prisoners to salvage the gold at the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. U.S. troops discovered these rings along with watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and even gold teeth fillings when they liberated the camp and freed 21,000 prisoners in April, 1945. Death already had liberated 70,000 who were starved or butchered during the Nazi reign of terror.
Titanic in dry dock in 1912 and the same dock in 2015
Sadly that's not the case. As the ship crossed the freezing Atlantic in spring of 1912 - four days into the voyage - it ran smack dab into an iceberg that ripped its hull asunder. Close 1,500 people went down the ship on that night, but the dock remains the same.
Mobsters hide their faces at Al Capone's trial 1931
There were plenty of mafia figures at the trial, all of whom who did the best to hide their identities from the camera. Although if you just google "Chicago + 1920s + gangster" you can probably figure out who a few of these guys are. As far as Capone was concerned, he didn't even understand why he was on trial. He said:
I've been made an issue and I'm not complaining, but why don't they go after all those bankers who took the savings of thousands of poor people and lost them in bank failures?
A.A Milne with his son Christopher Robin and the original 'Pooh Bear' at Cotchford Farm, 1926
Christopher Robin later touched on why his father used him as his muse, noting that it was a way for Milne to become a child again:
When I was three my father was three. When I was six he was six… he needed me to escape from being fifty.
16-year-old Brenda Spencer leaves court in Santa Ana, California, after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in a sniper attack 1979
Spencer fired 30 rounds during the chaos, wounding nine people and killing two. When a journalist finally got her on the phone during her shooting she explained why she was firing randomly at a group of children and it was absolutely horrifying. She explained:
I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day.
The girl was finally arrested after the shooting ended and she was remanded to prison for 25 years to life. As of this writing she's still locked up at the California Institution for Women.
Whitney Houston in her high school photo, 1981
She was found in the bathtub at a hotel in Beverly Hills on February 11, 2012. It's believed that she passed from accidental drowning due to a heart problem and drug use. The singer of "I Just Want To Dance With Somebody" is the last person that anyone would expect to pass in such a depressing way, but it shows that we rarely look after our most vulnerable.
Anne Frank’s father Otto, revisiting the attic where they hid from the Nazis. He was the only surviving family member
It was clear to everyone in Europe at the time which way the wind was blowing, which is why Frank tried to immigrate his family to America in 1938. However when that didn't work he attempted to make the move again in 1941 but his request was denied. Richard Breitman, a professor of German history at American University, explains why the Frank family's attempts to escape Europe failed due to bureaucracy on the side of the Allied forces and the Axis:
The Frank family could have probably gotten out of the Netherlands even during much of the year 1941 but the decision to try hard came relatively late. The Nazis made it harder and harder over time and, by that time, the American government was making it harder and harder for foreigners to get in.
Jackie Kennedy taking a selfie in a mirror with husband John and sister-in-law Ethel, 1954
Kennedy's back problems stemmed from the steroids that he had to take in the 1930s to get rid of his intestinal problems. This caused his vertebrae to degenerate at an extreme rate. If he didn't get the surgery he would have been confined to a wheelchair for his entire life.
Goldie Hawn in London, 1970. (Photo by Terry O'Neill)
In 2020 Hawn told The Guardian:
It was a very strange ride, a quick rise to stardom. I was unsettled. I didn’t know where I was going. I went to the psychologist when I was 21 and I continued for about eight years to try to understand more about my mind, my psyche, how I could return back to my sense of joy.
A CIA case officer is photographed at a dead drop location in Moscow, 1962
The biggest problem with the dead drop is that an agent could be picked up the moment they dropped their item. They could also be photographed in the act which is almost worse than being picked up in the moment. This photo shows just how dangerous it was to be a spy during the Cold War.
One of the last known photos of Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts
Watts, ever the relaxed elder statesman of rock, once said of playing the drums:
The very nature of playing drums is a nervous twitch, really. It's a cross between being an athlete and a totally nervous wreck.
20,000 Americans attend a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, February 20, 1939
These 20,000 pro-fascists weren't the only people in attendance, there were thousands out protestors outside Madison Square Garden made up of regular people who didn't want to see fascism come to America. The GAB pretty much fell apart in 1940 when the group's leader was indicted on embezzlement charges. Even then, as soon as America entered World War II these huge fascist groups essentially disappeared.
Soviet peasants listen to the radio for the first time, 1928
Launched in 1924, the Soviet radio station was initially operated by a joint stock company but in 1928 it was transferred to the People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs. Lenin wanted the radio to be used as a kind of "paperless newspaper" to send out public information. Can you imagine how hard it must have been to wrap your head around listening to the radio when it was so new? It must have been brain melting.
A policeman in San Francisco scolds a man for not wearing a mask during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
This officer had the unwelcome job of making sure that people masked up during the pandemic. While there were laws in place they were hard to enforce, especially on the street in the middle of the day. Most folks ended up with a stern talking to over serving jail time or earning a ticket.
Anti British propaganda, Japan 1941
Parthasarathi Bhaumik, assistant professor of comparative literature at Jadavpur University explained to Quartz India that Japan directed their propaganda towards South Asia to get their neighbors on their side during the campaign:
During the Second World War, the British and Japanese governments fought a fierce propaganda war in South Asia to influence mass opinion in their favor. They exploited all available media—wireless, film, print and live performances… The aim was to discredit the opponent and to project their own side as the true friend of South Asian people.
Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic from Nirvana at Kurt Cobain's funeral. Seattle, Washington
While speaking with the BBC in 2019, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl explained that "In My Life" by The Beatles will always be special to him because it was played at Kurt Cobain's memorial service:
[In My Life] means a lot to me, because it was the song that was played at Kurt Cobain’s memorial. That day, after everyone had said their piece, this next song came over the speakers. And everyone got to celebrate Kurt’s love of The Beatles one last time together. Still to this day, when I hear it, it touches a place in me that no other song ever will.
In 1945, the Auschwitz death camp was discovered and liberated by the Red Army
After the Soviets broke through the ranks of the German military the Nazis fled the camp leaving survivors to fend for themselves. Georgii Elisavetskii, a Red Army soldier who was one of the first to enter into Auschwitz remembers:
They rushed toward us shouting, fell on their knees, kissed the flaps of our overcoats, and threw their arms around our legs.
In Tombstone (1993) Val Kilmer had the art department fill his deathbed with ice which he laid on
Kilmer's brooding energy in the film isn't just an actor doing his job. It's a painful performance because, well, he was in pain while he was performing. In Holliday's death scene Kilmer is literally lying on a bed of ice so he can be uncomfortable while he was acting - that's not just a commitment to a film that's a commitment to the audience.
George Carlin being arrested for violating Wisconsin's obscenity laws, July 21, 1972
DJ Bob Reitman recalls the show and the fallout from Carlin's famous routine:
The cops there were enraged with Carlin. They were using a lot of those seven dirty words to describe him. They couldn’t wait to get their hands on him.
A group of frontiersmen with an advertisement. United States, Montana, 1901
As a kind of early version of the mail-order bride industry, the women who traveled to the wildnerness to marry helped ensure that the growing colonies continued to thrive. It was a dangerous way to travel and live, but it made sure that America became the massive country that it is. And to think it all started with this strange sign.
Joan Jett and Chrissie Hynde, 1981
Jett spoke about her friendship with Hynde in 2018 with Sirius XM and she said:
We met in the Runaways days… it was great to be able to talk to another woman who was a musician. You know you don’t necessarily talk about anything different that you would talk to anyone else about… but there’s sort of a knowingness, where we both know what we’re talking about. She was very supportive… and the fact that she was having success proved to me that women can have success in America playing a guitar and front a band. She inspired me to keep going and said ‘Don’t get lost in this world of feeling sorry for yourself. It’s all fine and well… but pick yourself up and keep going.’
A man browses for books in the old Public library of Cincinnati. The building was demolished in 1955
At the time of its opening The Enquirer reported:
The main hall is a splendid work. The hollow square within the columns is lighted by an arched clear roof of prismatic glass set in iron, the light of which is broken and softened by a paneled ceiling of richly colored glass. One is impressed not only with the magnitude and beauty of the interior but with its adaptation to the purpose it is to serve.
Kubrick taking a photo with daughter Vivian, on the set of The Shining. Nicholson thought he himself was the photo’s subject
The cast and crew was on the set of The Shining for a solid year, and Nicholson claims that he got most of his sleep in the car riding to and from set. That doesn't just drive people up a wall, it drives them crazy. At the end of the day the film has a haunting quality but it's clear that no one was happy (aside from Kubrick) while making the film.
A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India
Lord Lytton, the local Viceroy, had a massive stock of crops at his disposal and rather than feeding the locals he held a banquet for 60,000 people for Queen Victoria's coronation. After the passing of more than 5.5 million people the Famine Commission of 1880 came together and put together the Provisional Famine Code in British India. Sadly, many laborers left their homeland to become indentured servants on plantations in the British tropical colonies.
Las Vegas police facing Mike Tyson after he'd just bitten Holyfield's ear off
Even outside of the ring people were losing their minds. Supposedly someone flipped a blackjack table and started snagging chips (which is wild), there was allegedly gunfire (no shooter was ever found) and Tyson was apoplectic. The two men made up years later, but for one night they were two of the most intense enemies ever.
A member of the Ku Klux Klan stands behind a police officer for protection, after a mob surrounded his Klan rally in Austin Texas, 1983
Aside from the violence of the day protestors threw eggs and fruit at the members of the KKK to silence their hate speech. Multiple people were arrested for disorderly conduct but at the end of the day it was a zero sum game. It's truly depressing to see that something like this is still happening today.
Here's a World War I memorial in Hungary
This devastating memorial is hard to look at but it's clear that it was made to remind Hungarians about the real cost of battle. It's hard to look at this without thinking about all of the people lost in the needless violence of war. It's not just a memorial for Hungarians, it's a memorial for the world.
A pit pony (or mining horse) was a horse, pony or mule used underground in mines from the mid-18th to the mid-20th century.
There was public outcry following the deaths of these children on July 4, 1838, that ended in the Mines and Collieries Act of 1842. This act kept women and children under the age of 10 from working underground. After the law was passed horses picked up the jobs but it didn't end Britain's use of child labor.
Adam West and Yvonne Craig on the set of the TV series Batman (1966)
Craig later explained that she had no idea what the show was about when she was cast:
I had never seen the show, even though everyone was crazy about it. Even when I was shooting Batman, I had a black and white TV. I’m a book reader and not much of a TV watcher, so I just didn’t pay attention. The producer, William Dozier, said, ‘I’m sure you’ve seen our show,’ and I said, ‘Actually, I haven’t, but if I get the part I’ll spend the summer watching re-runs so I know how I’ll fit into the scheme of things.’
Aerial view of Las Vegas in 1947
A year after this photo was taken the Las Vegas Strip was a hive of activity even as the city was facing massive water shortages. In 1949, the Las Vegas hospital ran out of water thanks to the city's massive expansion, leaving everyone inside in danger of dying of thirst. As dire as this moment was in Las Vegas' history it wouldn't be long before the city was generation massive amounts of profit every year.
Alfred Hitchcock in Cannes, France, 1963
Upon the release of the film many critics were displeased with Hitchcock's use of "trick shots" to achieve thousands of birds attacking his cast. Hitchcock did his best to put his critics in their place:
It is a means to an end. You must arrive at it somehow. A very important thing about The Birds: I never raised the point, 'Can it be done?' Because then it would never have been made. Any technician would have said 'impossible.' So I didn't even bring that up, I simply said, 'Here's what we're going to do.' No one will ever realize that had the pioneering technical work on it not been attempted, the film would not have been made.
An Anti KKK Group Called the Knights of the Invisible Jungle of the Tiger's Eye, circa 1921
The group is believed to have played a part in the theft of the Buffalo wing of the Klan's archives in the early 1920s. A list of the group's activities and members was given to the Buffalo police and it was put on display at Buffalo HQ. The group is believed to have disbanded but it seems that they disappeared just as quickly as they appeared.
An anti-communist revolutionary holds a Molotov cocktail behind his back during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Students began the revolution by marching through central Budapest to the Hungarian Parliament Building. Initially they just wanted to broadcast their demands over the radio, but once they were detianed extreme violence ensued. Over the course of the summer and autumn of 1956 the Hungarian government fell apart and the Soviet Army moved in to crush the rebellion.
Anti NAZI demonstration in Berlin 1932
It's discouraging to realize that there was such a virulent anti-fascist contingent in Germany at the same time that Hitler was rising to power. Even though this group of people did everything they could to stop the Nazi party from taking over Germany they couldn't stop this horrible group's power. Sadly these citizens had to witness their country being torn apart just over a decade later.
Cesar Romero doing his makeup as 'The Joker' on the set of TV series Batman (1967)
While speaking about Batman in the 1960s, Romero explained that as much fun as he has being a bad guy he knows that the series isn't all about him:
It's a lot of fun. We have a lot of fun doing this show, and we had a lot of fun making the movie. It's a part that you can do everything that you've always been told not to do as an actor. In other words, you can get as hammy as you like and go all out. It's great fun, I enjoy it.
Chief Dust Maker, from the Ponca tribe in northern Nebraska, 1898. (Photograph by Frank Rinehart)
At this event nearly 500 Native Americans were photographed against simple backdrops and in staged conditions. Some of the indigenous people, like Dust Maker, are clad in ceremonial outfits while others wear very little. Rinehart's photos provide a rare insight into the native people of this era.
CIA agent Felix Rodriguez (left) and Bolivian soldiers pose with Che Guevara moments before his execution. Bolivia, October 9, 1967
In 2017, Rodríguez explained exactly what happened moments before this photo was taken:
I gave my own camera to the pilot and I said to Che, ‘Comandante, look at the birdie.’ He started to laugh because it’s what we say to children in Cuba: ‘Look at the birdie.’ I even think he was still laughing when the photo was taken, but, obviously, he changed his expression to the one you see now. I was in Special Forces uniform but without any badges. I was just 26 then. He was 39. He looked like a beggar. His clothes were worn and filthy. He had no boots, just pieces of leather tied to his feet. His hair was bedraggled. To be honest, sometimes I would be speaking to him but I couldn’t concentrate on what he was telling me. I had never seen him in person before, but I remembered photos of him from a visit to Moscow with the Russians and when he visited Mao Zedong in Beijing – photos of an arrogant man in those coats. And to see him now looking like a beggar. It made me feel sorry for him.
Elvis Presley and Mary Selph riding on his 1971 Harley-Davidson FLH Electra-Glide motorcycle in Memphis, 1972
At the time Presley was known for riding around Memphis in one of his many prized vehicles, be it a motorcycle or a car, but he was also busy taking karate lessons. Sadly, his health deteriorated rapidly the following year and he spent three days in a coma in 1973. Even so, he never really stopped performing.
Shirley Slade was a bomber pilot who flew a B-26 and a B-39 during WWII. (1943)
The sad part of this story is that none of the women were allowed to actually serve in the military. As civilians, those who lost their lives were simply considered to be WASPs and were refused military orders or compensation. It took decades for these women to get the respect they were due.
High school teacher John T. Scopes is brought to trial in Dayton, Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution, July 10, 1925
Scopes was arrested for teaching evolution in May and he went on trial in July 1925. He later admitted that he was mostly used as a sacrificial lamb while lawyers on both sides went at each other over the teaching of evolution. At the end of the day Scopes was charged with a whopping $100 fine.
Indigenous Residential School Students Being Forced To Pray Before Bed
While these schools were in operation during the late 19th and early 20th centuries those who were in charge didn't understand why the indigenous population didn't appreciate the "opportunity" for their children. One report from the time read:
The Indians do not, unfortunately, seem to show any great appreciation of what we are trying to do.
Dolly Parton posing on a 1956 Chevy in 1967
In 2008, Parton explained the real life circumstances that surrounded the writing of "Jolene," saying:
She got this terrible crush on my husband. And he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention. It was kinda like a running joke between us — when I was saying, 'Hell, you're spending a lot of time at the bank. I don't believe we've got that kind of money.' So it's really an innocent song all around, but sounds like a dreadful one.
An undercover police officer on duty. New York, Brooklyn, July 1, 1969
One thing to keep in mind about this photo is that New York City at the end of the '60s was anything but the flower power mecca that the west coast was. It was a down and dirty spot where Andy Warhol and grimy rock n roll rained, but it was also full of some nasty drugs. The only way for the police to get into the scene was to go undercover, even if they had to change to look to something outlandish.
Patrick Swayze, 1979.
Swayze didn't immediately become the big man on campus on the big screen, but he did pop up in everything from an episode of M*A*S*H to a disco themed commercial for PBR. It was just the beginning of his career, but in a few years he became one of the most beloved actors of his era thanks to his work with Francis Ford Coppola. It's hard to imagine that he was ever this young.
The cast of Three's Company at an event in 1979 Audra Lindley, Joyce DeWitt, John Ritter, Suzanne Somers, Don Knotts and Norman Fell.
Former producer Alan Hamel, Somers' longtime husband, told People that ABC used her to keep other actresses from doing the same thing:
Laverne & Shirley had just negotiated a monster deal, and afterwards, they decided they needed to make an example of female actresses so that no other woman would ask to be paid what men were making. And then [Suzanne] was fired.
The discovery of the statue of Antinous in Delphi, Greece back in 1894.
The statue was later buried by the followers of Antinous in order to preserve it as well as they could. At the time, Christian zealots were wiping the country clean of anything that harkened back to the old gods and the statue had to be hidden before it was destroyed. It's amazing to see that this statue survived such a dark period in history.
The O’Halloran sisters fought off the officers who were evicting their family during the Irish Land War, armed only with poles and boiling water, 1887.
The local authorities didn't take it well and they attempted to forcefully remove the O'Halloran's from their home. While their brother and parents barricaded their home, the four girls pictured here poured scalding water on the authorities and stole one of their weapons. In 1909 the O'Halloran's were finally allowed to buy their home.
A German-Jewish WW1 veteran wears his Iron Cross while a Nazi soldier stands in front of his shop for intimidation - 1933
It didn't take long for the rise in fascism to lead to a nationalist attitude that persecuted the Jewish people in Germany and surrounded countries in Europe. The move to put Hitler into the upper echelons of the government began the country's fast decline into Nazism, one from which it would take a world war to end. This photo is just a small ramification of those events.
Charles Bronson on the set of the film The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Bronson became a mainstay in westerns and war films, but he was always the most soft-spoken tough guy in the room. It's likely that this came from the fact that when he was growing up he had to wear his sister's hand me downs to school. That's certainly something that would make any guy tough.