A 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 Bethea in Owensboro, Kentucky. (5/14)

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Submitted to "Rainey Bethea: Story and Photos of the Last Person in the United States Who Was Executed Publicly in Kentucky on August 14, 1936"
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A 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 Bethea in Owensboro, Kentucky.
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