Jackie Chan singing at the benefit concert in Hong Kong, in support of Tiananmen Square protesters, 1989
Dale Schroeder was a simple, humble man from Iowa, who ended up changing the lives of 33 people forever. Schroeder worked as a carpenter at the same company for 67 years. He grew up poor and had no wife or children of his own. His friend Steve Nielsen described Schroeder as a “blue collar, lunch pail kind of guy.” “Went to work every day. Worked really hard. Was frugal. Like a lot of Iowans,” Nielsen told CBS Des Moines affiliate KCCI-TV. When he died in 2005, no one could have guessed how rich Schroeder really was. “He had church jeans and work jeans,” Nielsen said. Schroeder had saved up a fortune over the years. He had no living descendants, so before he died, he went to his lawyer with a plan for his money. “He said, ‘I never got the opportunity to go to college. So, I’d like to help kids go to college,’” Nielsen said. Not only did Schroeder have enough money to send a few kids to college, he had enough saved to send dozens. Dale sent 33 kids to college.
In 1969, during a period when African Americans were often barred from sharing swimming pools with white people, Mr. Rogers chose to invite Officer Clemmons to cool his feet in a pool with him, challenging a widely recognized racial segregation norm.
In 1973, Marlon Brando declined his Oscar award for ‘The Godfather’ to enable Sacheen Littlefeather to speak out against Hollywood’s depiction of Native Americans.
A Serbian soldier is seen resting with his father, who visited him at the front line near Belgrade, around 1914/1915.
The “Happiest Man in China,” photographed in 1901 by British anthropologists who aimed to document Chinese life. Unaware that photographs were considered a formal affair, the Chinese subjects chose to express themselves playfully, leading to the lively pose and smile captured in the image.
A French child greets Indian soldiers upon their arrival in France to join forces with the French and British military during WWI. September 30th, 1914.
Princess Diana shakes hands with an AIDS patient without gloves in a time this was very uncommon, 1991
A French woman welcomes an American soldier two days after liberation. Strasbourg, France, 1944.
112-year-old Teimruz Vanacha (on the left), a veteran of World War I and the Russian Civil War, pictured alongside his son Ivan, a World War II veteran, in 1980.
A grandmother tenderly covers her grandson’s ears to keep them warm during his Oath of Enlistment ceremony for the Russian army in Volgograd, 1994. Nikolai Ignatiev captured the photo.
Muhammad Ali stops a suicidal man from jumping, 1981.
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