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...twin brother Jesse who died at birth, WWN claimed that Jesse had in fact survived, brain damaged and hidden away, and that when Jesse died in 1977 Elvis took this as his cue to disappear. It was Jesse, the twin, whose body was displayed in Elvis' open coffin...
...Though he took his most memorable picture--the iconic image of young J.F.K. Jr. saluting his father's coffin--as a White House photographer, Joe O'Donnell began documenting tragedy nearly 20 years earlier when, as a Marine sergeant, he was assigned to capture on film the effects of the atom bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. For the rest of his life, O'Donnell, who became an activist against nuclear arms, carried with him such images as the classroom of children seated at their desks reduced to cinder, as well as long-term health problems from radiation exposure...
...bells had struck midnight when a cheaply made coffin was carried through the deserted streets of the German town of Weimar on May 12, 1805. Its cargo: the rapidly decomposing body of Friedrich Schiller - poet, philosopher, historian, dramatist and rebel, who had died three days earlier. Its destination: the local Jacob's Cemetery, where his corpse was unceremoniously lowered into a common grave with, as Thomas Mann wrote in 1955, "no mild sound of music, no word from the mouth of priest or friend...
...learn anatomy from cadavers, and in the past they got them on the sly, digging up fresh graves. In April 1788 a student at a New York City hospital jokingly told a boy that he was dissecting the boy's mother. When the boy's father found that her coffin had been robbed, the discovery set off two days of uproar. Many of New York's doctors hid in the city jail, where they were defended by local civic leaders, including diplomat John Jay. A mob pelted them with stones, knocking Jay unconscious. Only a volley from the militia, which...
...known to target Shi'ite wakes, and Shi'ite militias have attacked Sunni funeral processions. So when Azhour went to collect her husband's body from Baghdad's central morgue, only her father and brother volunteered to go with her. They put Amer's body in a simple wooden coffin, strapped it onto the roof of the car and drove as quickly as possible to the nearest Sunni graveyard. "I was terrified that [Shi'ite militias] would see the coffin and stop us," she recalls. "And once they found out that we were Sunni, they would kill us as well...