These incredible color photographs reveal what it was like to live in rural America amid the struggles of the Great Depression and World War II. Around 1,600 of the vivid images were released by The Library of Congress, which depict what it was like on rural farmlands in America, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, from nearly 80 years ago. They were taken by the U.S. government's Farm Security Administration (FSA) and later the Office of War Information (OWI) to show life between 1939 and 1944. The snapshots captured an era more typically seen in black and white and showed the transformation from times that seemed to inspire John Steinbeck's classic novel Grapes of Wrath to the US readying itself for war. 🗿 #history

A harrowing video from inside a doors-off sightseeing helicopter that crashed in a New York City river last year shows doomed passengers struggling to free themselves from harnesses as the aircraft fills with water, federal investigators said. 'How do I cut this?' one passenger asks, just 13 seconds before the helicopter becomes completely submerged in the East River in March 2018. The National Transportation Safety Board made a transcript of the video public on Monday, but the footage itself was not provided. It was taken from a GoPro camera mounted on the cabin ceiling. The transcript painted a picture of tragedy that unfolded in mere seconds, with one passenger reaching for a spot on his chest where a hook knife had been seen earlier, another pulling in vain at the shoulder straps of his harness and a third heard panting. All five passengers drowned. Police and fire department divers said they found their bodies strapped in harnesses and used knives to cut them loose. #NYC