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Convicted murderer Bennie Demps smiles at his lawyer as judge sentences Demps to death. Sentencing was held at State Prison where Demps murdered a fellow inmate.

Defendant Sharon Brown on trial for shooting her husband to death after hearing a not guilty verdict kneels before the judge to thank him. Photo was taken in courtroom as a year long experiment for TV and still cameras allowed in the courtroom in…

Asked to show the court the man who had allegedly kidnapped, raped, stabbed, and tried to murder, her, the woman at left got out of the witness chair and, without hesitation, walked up to the man in the spectator section of a courtroom to point him…

Boy on a unicycle talks to a girl in a car.

While at a parade, I was struck by the ironic juxtaposition of a local businessman dressed as a hobo and two examples of the genuine article.

High School Track Meet--Holland, Michigan. This special event was a relay race for shot putters, May, 1978.

After a 10-kilometer cross-country run under near 100 degree temperatures many runners collapsed from heat after the race. This fallen runner is aided by another contestant while he pleads with someone to find medical help. She was finally…

All eyes.. crowded onto a platform at the finish line, timers at the Virginia State Indoor Track meet in Richmond punch their stopwatches as their faces mirror their feelings about the race just completed.

High jumper Dwight Stone misses in his attempt at the world record in high jump.

An employee of a rubber reclaiming company climbs on an intricately woven stack of tires.