Huge crowd of over 15, 000 people gathers around a scaffold to witness the public hanging of 26-year old Rainey Bethea August 14, 1936 in Owensboro,...
When this picture was made, there was not enough light for photography. It was made by flashlight before dawn as the crowd of 20,000 that gathered to...
Owensboro, Kentucky: Rainey Bethea, 22-year-old Negro, shown on the gallows, talking to an officer, just before he was hanged in the presence of a...
Owensboro, KY: General view, showing Rainey Bethea, 22 year-old, Negro, hanging at the end of a rope just after he had been dropped through the trap...
Louisville, Kentucky Jail to be hanged by woman sheriff, Rainey Bethea is to be hanged. He was convicted of murdering and attacking a 70-year-old...
Hanging in Owensboro, Kentucky Death marks time... The priest must leave the confessed Bethea Rainey to the hangman at his back. Rainey stands on the...
Hanging in Owensboro, Kentucky Rainey Bethea listens attentively to the prayers of a priest as the hangman makes final adjustments on the noose.
Huge crowd of over 15,000 people gathers around a scaffold to witness the public hanging of 26-year old Rainey Bethea, Owensboro, Kentucky. Public...
Child peers through a group of people among the crowd of approximately 20,000 people who had gathered to witness the public hanging of Rainey Bethea...
Figure sits on wood-built structure looking across the crowd of approximately 20,000 people who had gathered to witness the public hanging of Rainey...
Group of people join the crowd of approximately 20,000 people who had gathered to witness the public hanging of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, Kentucky,...