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<p>On July 19, 1969 an auto accident, involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the death of a young woman, changed the course of American political history forever.</p> <figure id="attachment_3277" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3277" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Ted-1968.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3277 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Ted-1968.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="666" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Ted-1968.jpg 500w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Ted-1968-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3277" class="wp-caption-text">Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 1968</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3279" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3279" style="width: 538px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-campaigning-1962.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3279 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-campaigning-1962.jpg" alt="" width="538" height="382" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-campaigning-1962.jpg 538w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-campaigning-1962-300x213.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3279" class="wp-caption-text">Edward Kennedy, campaigning in 1962</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3281" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3281" style="width: 960px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-frogman.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3281 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-frogman.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="711" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-frogman.jpg 960w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-frogman-300x222.jpg 300w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-frogman-768x569.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3281" class="wp-caption-text">John Farrar examining the Kennedy automobile as it is being removed from the water near Dike Bridge</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3283" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3283" style="width: 1154px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-speech.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3283 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-speech.png" alt="" width="1154" height="936" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-speech.png 1154w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-speech-300x243.png 300w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-speech-1024x831.png 1024w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-speech-768x623.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1154px) 100vw, 1154px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3283" class="wp-caption-text">Ted Kennedy during nationwide speech following the Chappaquiddick accident</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3285" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3285" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Dinis.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3285 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Dinis.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="701" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Dinis.jpg 500w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Dinis-214x300.jpg 214w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3285" class="wp-caption-text">District Attorney Edmund Dinis</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3287" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3287" style="width: 944px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Arena.png"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3287 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Arena.png" alt="" width="944" height="968" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Arena.png 944w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Arena-293x300.png 293w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Arena-768x788.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3287" class="wp-caption-text">Edgartown Police Chief Dominick &#8220;Jim&#8221; Arena, later in life</figcaption></figure>

<p>On July 19, 1969 an auto accident, involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the death of a young woman, changed the course of American political history forever.</p> <figure id="attachment_3267" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3267" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-with-wife.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3267 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-with-wife.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="608" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-with-wife.jpg 600w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-with-wife-296x300.jpg 296w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3267" class="wp-caption-text">Senator Edward Kennedy and his wife Joan in the mid-sixties</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3269" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3269" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Joe-Kennedy-Ann-Gargan.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3269 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Joe-Kennedy-Ann-Gargan.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="611" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Joe-Kennedy-Ann-Gargan.jpg 600w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Joe-Kennedy-Ann-Gargan-295x300.jpg 295w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3269" class="wp-caption-text">Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Joe Gargan&#8217;s sister Ann, Joe Kennedy&#8217;s longtime caretaker.</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3271" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3271" style="width: 521px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Gargan-late-in-life.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3271" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Gargan-late-in-life.jpg" alt="" width="521" height="650" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Gargan-late-in-life.jpg 521w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-Gargan-late-in-life-240x300.jpg 240w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3271" class="wp-caption-text">Joe Gargan, late in life.</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3273" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3273" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-mary-Jo.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3273 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-mary-Jo.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="480" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-mary-Jo.jpg 640w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Kennedy-mary-Jo-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3273" class="wp-caption-text">Kopechne family gravestone</figcaption></figure>

<p>Brought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe.</p> <figure id="attachment_3240" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3240" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Peter-III.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3240 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Peter-III.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="619" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Peter-III.jpg 500w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Peter-III-242x300.jpg 242w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3240" class="wp-caption-text">Peter III, Catherine&#8217;s husband</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3242" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3242" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-johanna.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3242 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-johanna.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="569" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-johanna.jpg 500w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-johanna-264x300.jpg 264w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3242" class="wp-caption-text">Catherine&#8217;s mother, Princess Johanna</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3244" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3244" style="width: 557px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-elizabeth.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3244 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-elizabeth.jpg" alt="" width="557" height="700" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-elizabeth.jpg 557w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-elizabeth-239x300.jpg 239w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3244" class="wp-caption-text">The Empress Elizabeth</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3246" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3246" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-frederick-the-great.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3246 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-frederick-the-great.jpeg" alt="" width="500" height="667" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-frederick-the-great.jpeg 500w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-frederick-the-great-225x300.jpeg 225w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3246" class="wp-caption-text">Frederick the Great</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3248" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3248" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-orlov.jpeg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3248 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-orlov.jpeg" alt="" width="500" height="631" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-orlov.jpeg 500w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-orlov-238x300.jpeg 238w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3248" class="wp-caption-text">Grigori Orlov</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3250" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3250" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-poniatowski.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3250 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-poniatowski.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="646" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-poniatowski.jpg 500w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-poniatowski-232x300.jpg 232w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3250" class="wp-caption-text">Poniatowski</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3252" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3252" style="width: 960px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/catherine-coup.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3252 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/catherine-coup.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="708" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/catherine-coup.jpg 960w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/catherine-coup-300x221.jpg 300w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/catherine-coup-768x566.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3252" class="wp-caption-text">Catherine on the the balcony of the Winter Palace after she seized the throne from Peter III</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3254" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3254" style="width: 484px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-imperial-uniform-white-horse.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3254 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-imperial-uniform-white-horse.jpg" alt="" width="484" height="566" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-imperial-uniform-white-horse.jpg 484w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-imperial-uniform-white-horse-257x300.jpg 257w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3254" class="wp-caption-text">Catherine, in the uniform of the Imperial Guard</figcaption></figure>

<p>Brought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe.</p> <figure id="attachment_3222" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3222" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-coronation.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3222 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-coronation.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="628" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-coronation.jpg 500w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-coronation-239x300.jpg 239w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3222" class="wp-caption-text">Catherine&#8217;s coronation painting, wearing her remarkable crown</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3224" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3224" style="width: 960px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-pugachev.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3224 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-pugachev.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="613" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-pugachev.jpg 960w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-pugachev-300x192.jpg 300w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-pugachev-768x490.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3224" class="wp-caption-text">Pugachev, harassing captive nobles before their execution</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3226" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3226" style="width: 500px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Paul-I.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3226 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Paul-I.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="688" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Paul-I.jpg 500w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Paul-I-218x300.jpg 218w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3226" class="wp-caption-text">Paul I, Catherine&#8217;s son and heir</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3228" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3228" style="width: 562px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Potemkin.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3228 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Potemkin.jpg" alt="" width="562" height="787" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Potemkin.jpg 562w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Potemkin-214x300.jpg 214w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3228" class="wp-caption-text">Grigori Potemkin</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3230" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3230" style="width: 960px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Peterhof-palace.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3230 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Peterhof-palace.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="640" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Peterhof-palace.jpg 960w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Peterhof-palace-300x200.jpg 300w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-Peterhof-palace-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3230" class="wp-caption-text">Peterhof Palace</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3232" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3232" style="width: 960px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-winter-palace.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3232 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-winter-palace.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="640" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-winter-palace.jpg 960w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-winter-palace-300x200.jpg 300w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-winter-palace-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3232" class="wp-caption-text">The Winter Palace and Hermitage Museum</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3234" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3234" style="width: 1024px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-bronze-horseman.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3234 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-bronze-horseman.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="593" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-bronze-horseman.jpg 1024w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-bronze-horseman-300x174.jpg 300w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Catherine-bronze-horseman-768x445.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3234" class="wp-caption-text">The Bronze Horseman statue of Peter the Great</figcaption></figure>

<p>Listen to this February 5, 2020 flashback episode about Bob Marley, homeless at age 20 in one of the poorest cities of the Third World, he became a popular music phenomenon and 20th century icon.</p> <figure id="attachment_3209" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3209" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Best-Performance-photo.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3209 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Best-Performance-photo.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="437" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Best-Performance-photo.jpg 640w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Best-Performance-photo-300x205.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3209" class="wp-caption-text">Bob Marley performing in July of 1980</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3213" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3213" style="width: 570px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Mothers-house.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3213 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Mothers-house.jpg" alt="" width="570" height="428" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Mothers-house.jpg 570w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Mothers-house-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3213" class="wp-caption-text">Bob Marley&#8217;s mother&#8217;s home, Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_733" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-733" style="width: 360px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Bunny-Wailer.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-733 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Bunny-Wailer.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="480" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Bunny-Wailer.jpg 360w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Bunny-Wailer-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-733" class="wp-caption-text">Bunny Wailer, one of Marley&#8217;s earliest collaborators</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_732" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-732" style="width: 249px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Peter-Tosh.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-732 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Peter-Tosh.jpg" alt="" width="249" height="377" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Peter-Tosh.jpg 249w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Peter-Tosh-198x300.jpg 198w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-732" class="wp-caption-text">Peter Tosh, another Marley associate, performing in 1978</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_726" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-726" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-IThrees.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-726 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-IThrees.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="426" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-IThrees.jpg 640w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-IThrees-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-726" class="wp-caption-text">The I Threes, performing with Marley, Rita, his wife, center</figcaption></figure>