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MAN ON THE MOON has to be the outstanding achievement of the decade. The space age,
launched in 1957 with the Russian Sputnik, came to a thrilling climax in 1969 when the United
States landed Apollo astronauts on the lunar surface. In this photo, astronaut Ed Aldrin stands
beside the deployed U.S. flag during the Apollo 11 mission. His footprints are clearly visible.
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THE REINS OF GOVERNMENT were held by these men in the ’6os. John F. Kennedy ushered
in the decade in a spirit of hope and vitality. His assassination in 1963 brought Lyndon B.
Johnson to the White House. Beset by opposition to his Vietnam war policies, LBJ declined to
seek reelection in 1968, a year of destiny for Richard M. Nixon.
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RIOT AND PROTEST marked the ’6os. Racism raised its ugly head in 1966 as destructive
riots broke out in major cities across the nation. More followed in 1967, when this picture was
made in Newark, N.J. Student protests swept campuses here and abroad in 1968 and ’69
culminating in the war moratorium demonstrations involving hundreds of thousands.
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AFTER A DECADE of dominance
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programs were repudiated.
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HUMAN HEART TRANSPLANTS came in rapid succession after the dramatic suc
cess in 1968 of Dr. Philip Blaiberg’s surgery by Dr. Christian Barnard. While the
operations we. e performed throughout the world, the largest number was reported in
Houston, Tex., by Dr. Denton A. Cooley of Baylor University.
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DALLAS’ DAY OF TRAGEDY came on Nov. 22, 1963, when a sniper’s bullets mortally wounded President Kennedy during a
motorcade. Photo at left shows the President slumping into the arms of his wife moments after the fatal shooting. Arrested
and charged with the murder was Lee Harvey Oswald. While being moved from one Dallas jail to another, Oswald was slain
by Jack Ruby, a nightclub owner. Photo at right was made at instant of shooting.
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THE VIETNAM WAR saw increased American involvement in 1963. The Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution in 1964 led to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam and the sending of thousands of
combat troops to the Asian abyss. At the end of the decade, the Communists seemed
determined to accept nothing short of surrender by the U.S. and Saigon governments.
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THE BEATLES, with their “shocking” long hair
and “outlandish” dress, looked like this in the early
’6os when they made the music scene and set the
pace for a new sound and look in pop culture.
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CUBA CRISIS brought the United States and Russia to the brink
of war in 1962 when a Soviet offensive build-up on the island was
revealed by President Kennedy, who ordered a naval and air quar
antine. The Soviet missile bases subsequently were dismantled.
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HUMILIATING DEFEAT was the Arabs’ lot when they engaged in a
six-day war with Israel in 1967. In this prize-winning photo, Egyptian
prisoners are seen being transported by truck and passing an advancing
Israeli armored column in the Sinai Desert near El Arish.
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ASSASSIN’S BULLETS cut down Martin Luther King
in April, 1968, and Robert F. Kennedy two months later.
James Earl Ray confessed to King’s murder and Sirhan
Sirhan was convicted of the Kennedy killing.
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PLACED ON THE MOON were
names of 1967 space program cas
ualties: from the top, Roger Chaf
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and Vladimir Komarov.
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U.S.-Soviet relations were strained
by the U-2 spy-plane incident in
1960, the construction of the Berlin
wall in 1961 and the Russian-led
invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.