EditorialIn 1951, Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin were shot by Sheriff Willis McCall, standing, while they were being taken to a pretrial hearing — Shepherd died and Irvin survived. (State Archives of Florida via The New York Times)
EditorialStudents in Roneline Ramoutarsingh’s third-grade classroom at Witchcraft Heights Elementary School in Salem, Mass., April 30, 2021. (Cody O'Loughlin/The New York Times)
EditorialVice President Joe Biden and family attend the funeral of his eldest son, Beau Biden, at the St. Anthony of Padua Church in Wilmington, Del., June 6, 2015.