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(MUST SEE) Vintage 1939 PHOTO: US Lawmen Dragging Fugitve Across US-Mexico Border; El Paso, Texas
Retronaut ^
| 1939
| Luis Marden / National Geographic
Posted on 12/14/2013 12:10:34 PM PST by DogByte6RER
circa 1939: Dragging a fugitive across the border, near El Paso, Texas, USA
Picture by Luis Marden / National Geographic.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; History; Local News; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1939; borderpatrol; borderpqatrol; bordersecurity; fugitive; homelandsecurity; immigrantlist; mexico; modernhistory; natgeo; nationalgeographic; texas; tugofwar
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Nothing like a game of tug-of-war to alleviate those tensions at the border!
To: DogByte6RER
2 vs 2, but I’m sure if that agent pulled his gun it was soon 2 vs. 0...
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:14:20 PM PST
by
Rennes Templar
(If you like your disease, you can keep it.)
To: DogByte6RER
And that sign just happened to be there?
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:15:12 PM PST
by
bergmeid
(Resist we much!)
To: DogByte6RER
Dragging him back into the USA? Neat sign dividing the border.
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:21:13 PM PST
by
deport
To: bergmeid
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:22:00 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
To: DogByte6RER
That looks like Mel Brooks. Probably a still shot from one of his movies.
To: FlingWingFlyer
Good eye, I think you’re right.
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:32:03 PM PST
by
jstaff
To: DogByte6RER
1939? Weren’t they still practicing cannibalism back then?
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:32:27 PM PST
by
Slambat
To: DogByte6RER
You know, why didn’t no one back then had the foresight to build a huge fricking wall?
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:35:01 PM PST
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
To: FlingWingFlyer
Nope I think it is the real deal. Notice the crease in his pants. Other than cops who else in that heat would have that crease?
To: DogByte6RER
Who took the picture? Why didn’t he help?
Guessing staged, maybe from a movie.
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:43:43 PM PST
by
prisoner6
( FREEDOM)
To: bergmeid
And that sign just happened to be there?Yep.
You don't think it's staged do you????
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:45:29 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: DogByte6RER
As a BP agent for 25 years I believe it is staged. The agent is dressed in a “dress” uniform. The agents don't ware that uniform while conducting Line Watch on the border.
If the other two Mexicans in the picture where throwing rocks it would be authentic.
Thanks for posting I will add it to my collection.
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:47:11 PM PST
by
usurper
(Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
To: DogByte6RER
I just noticed the agents gun and holster is on backwards.
Not sure what to make of that but I have never seen anyone do it. It would give a bad guy easy access.
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:51:12 PM PST
by
usurper
(Liberals GET OFF MY LAWN)
To: DogByte6RER
That must have been back when the US had more pull than it does today.
To: DogByte6RER
My family has a picture of this thing!
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:54:15 PM PST
by
RaceBannon
(Lk 16:31 And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will theybe persuaded)
To: usurper
Thanks for the feedback ... Probably an early Border Patrol publicity photo ... but, I wonder why a Nat Geo photographer would take it? Would a Nat Geo photographer ever agree to take a staged photo? Maybe the photographer was contracted by the BP for publicity/PR promotion?
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:54:50 PM PST
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: RaceBannon
I don’t know what it is, but I need one!
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posted on
12/14/2013 12:59:24 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(Did the ancients know they were ancients? Or did they see themselves as presents?)
To: usurper
The guy on the left looks like a character actor from lots of westerns.
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posted on
12/14/2013 1:02:28 PM PST
by
prisoner6
( FREEDOM)
To: usurper
Not on backwards, that’s cross draw style.
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posted on
12/14/2013 1:03:42 PM PST
by
eastforker
(Cruz for steam in 2016)
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