Ha! That's neat (or perhaps I am somehow psychically linked to the BBC?).

I was kind of shocked by the cover, because I browsed through following issues from 1939 to about 1941, and this was one of the few times that the publication openly condemned Hitler. I suppose I was expecting a portrait of him and got this startling drawing instead.

I'm also amazed at all of the history available at my fingertips and how necessary it is that I take advantage of that.

It must have been all the Monty Python and other British shows I grew up watching, though now I have to settle for BBC America.

A portrait would have worked just as well, but I do enjoy that one of our major, influential publications spoke out against Hitler, even if it was just through their cover. I was a tad unsettled by readers who wrote in to defend Hitler and the Third Reich. Not to excuse them, but I've known quite a few people with the attitude of "It's not happening here, so who cares?"
It's disappointing to see that that attitude hasn't changed.

I'll definitely take better advantage of it! The next article of interest is one I found on Ted Bundy in 1981, after he had been incarcerated for some time and sentenced to death. He was actually laughing over the whole situation!
I've been working at the library for nearly 5 years now, so I suppose I'm just used to unlimited access to all of these wonderful magazines and newspapers; I then have to remember that not everyone is able to do the same unless they came here and requested to see the material.

"No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"
I can still remember the first episode I watched of Monty Python, because it had the Salad Days skit and at the age of nine, I didn't see how it supposed to be funny, because I absolutely horrified.

BBC America isn't like watching the actual BBC, as it's just endless blocks of BBC shows, with occasional all-day marathons of one specific show (usually Doctor Who). It's not bad, but I'd prefer the real thing.

It was definitely creepy! Some people had difficulty accepting the fact that an attractive, intelligent, seemingly normal man such as Ted Bundy was a serial killer. That article is an interesting contrast to the one to follow in 1988, when he was put to death; that article profiled the victims and their families and was focused more on them than on him.

I'll do what I can to assist all of you non-library-working types in the meantime ♥

If you love the films, then you'll love the show. When I'm bored and have the time, I youtube practically every Graham Chapman-centric Monty Python skit I can find. This is one of my favorites and pertains to my post:


I'd love to have the actual BBC (I was such an Anglophile when I was in my teens) and more foreign programming in general. One of our local channels runs a variety of foreign film and stage productions extremely early in the morning, but it's really not enough.

I suppose it's because Ted appeared to be so non-threatening and was charming to everyone he knew, but indeed, there is no specific look for a serial killer. Many of them seem rather harmless and unassuming by appearance alone.

And I'll do what I can to post interesting articles and such from various points in history! ♥

The internet is a wonderful place:

I'm enjoying sharing my discoveries from work here, so I'm not the only one who loves reading such things.

It's almost grotesquely beautiful, isn't it?

These were so worth badgering you for, thank you for doing so. I think, if I squint, the artist is Rudolph Charles von Ripper? (I wish that was my name.)

It really is, and you're welcome!

And you're right about the artist's name! I googled him and found this portrait of him (a seemingly colorful fellow) : http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/searchimages/images/image_2426_3465.htm

His work is rather political, yet darkly humorous:
http://www.acmefineart.com/von-ripper-nyc-worlds-fair.htm

You should scan in some of the letters--I'm curious to see the rationale(s) of the people who supported him in the U.S.

Sure. The letters after Orson Welles' War of the Worlds incident were great, too. Most wrote in saying that anyone who killed themselves over it was a gullible idiot. And then there was the whole "Parents need to monitor what their children listen to on the radio and stop blaming radio programs for their bad behavior!"