The last public execution in America: Historic photos taken on Aug. 14
The Associated Press has won 31 Pulitzer prizes for photography since the award was established in 1917. Each day we offer a curated collection of some of the best AP images that were taken from that date. Not all of these photos were prize winners, but each of them certainly tells a story.
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1935: Social Security
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Bill in Washington in this Aug. 14, 1935 file photo. From left are: Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee; Sen. Wagner, D-N.Y, co-author of the bill, Secretary Perkins, Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, Rep. Lewis, D-Md., co-author of the measure. (AP Photo)
1936: Jesse Owens
Jesse Owens hits the ground to set a new world broad jump record at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin on August 14, 1936. (AP Photo)
1936: Last public execution
In this Friday, Aug. 14, 1936 file picture, a large crowd watches as attendants adjust a black hood over Rainey Bethea's head just before his public hanging in Owensboro, Ky. Bethea, a 22-year-old black man convicted of raping a 70-year-old white woman, was the last person killed in a public execution in the United States. America's executions have changed dramatically over the years, morphing from day-long events in the town square to somber and tightly controlled affairs held deep inside prisons. (AP File Photo)
1957: Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett, 24, sings her rendition of "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles" on Aug. 14, 1957. (AP Photo)
1963: Fasting week
Indian engineer and civil rights activist, Tapeshwar Nath Zutshi, third from left, stands at a table decorated with a portrait of Mahadmah Gandhi as people line up in front of the wall seperating Berlin in the Western section of the town, to sign a list to take part at a fasting week from August 7 - August 14, 1963, in West Berlin, West Germany, August 7, 1963. The sign leaning against the table reads: Gewaltloser Protest gegen die die Mauer der Schande. Fastenaktion vom 7. - 14. August 1963. ( (AP Photo)
1965: Drive-in movie theaters
The drive-in theater in St. Ansgar, Iowa on August 14, 1965, gets its audience via highway and skyway. Planes land on the theater’s 1,500-foot lighted runway, park on ramp behind lines of cars and get sound from 12 speakers specially rigged for the flying patrons. Some customers come from as far as 100 miles in their light planes. (AP Photo)
1965: WATTS RIOT
In this Aug. 14, 1965 file photo, firefighters battle a blaze set in a shoe store that collapses in flames during rioting in the Watts district of Los Angeles. It began with a routine traffic stop 50 years ago this month, blossomed into a protest with the help of a rumor and escalated into the deadliest and most destructive riot Los Angeles had seen. The Watts riot broke out Aug. 11, 1965 and raged for most of a week. When the smoke cleared, 34 people were dead, more than a 1,000 were injured and some 600 buildings were damaged.(AP Photo, File)
1966: Chicago Race Riot
An unidentified man struggles with police in the Gage Park area of Chicago's Southwest Side, Aug. 14, 1966. (AP Photo)
1969: Belfast
British troops set up barbed wire fences between catholic and protestant quarters in Cupar Street, Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Sept. 10, 1969.
1969: Woodstock
This is a general view of the crowd at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Aug. 14, 1969. (AP Photo)
1972: Karl Wallenda
Karl Wallenda, 67, nears end of 17-minute high-wire-walk across the top of Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium between games Philadelphia Phillies and Montral Expos doubleheader in Philadelphia on August 14, 1972. Wallenda, who sat down once to get ground crew to tighten rope, did a headstand midway, but called it “the loosest rope I ever walked on.” (AP Photo/Bill Ingraham)
1973: Mass murders
Wearing a paper sack over his head, witness Billy Ridinger, 20, enters the Harris County grand jury room in Houston, Texas, Aug. 14, 1973. Ridinger reportedly escaped from the sexual-torture ring that is responsible for the mass murder that has so far produced 27 teenaged corpses. At left is investigator Gregg Walls. After two hours of testimony, two youths, Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, and David Brooks, 18, were charged with murder by the grand jury. (AP Photo/Ted Powers)
1982: Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa carries one of the 37 mentally handicapped children who arrived in East Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 14, 1982. The children were in a hospital in the Sabra area of West Beirut when it was destroyed by Israeli forces. They will be staying at the Missionaries of Charity school in East Beirut. (AP Photo/Alexis Duclos)
1994: Anti-abortion protest
Hundreds of thousands of Roman Catholics turned out at Manila’s Rizal Park, Sunday, August 14, 1994 in a show of force against the government’s birth control program and to demand a boycott of the U.N. conference on Population and Human Development next month in Cairo. (AP Photo/Fernando Sepe Jr.)
Each day we offer a curated collection of some of the best AP images that were taken from that date.