From Out Of The Past... The History In Pictures Thread

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Hindenburg over Rio de Janeiro, 1936.

One of New York Central’s “Mercury” engines in Chicago, 1936.

Unveiling of the Volkswagen Beetle concept car, circa 1936.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Beetle

A 1936 general mercantile store in Alabama.

Jesse Owens of the USA refutes Adolf Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy by breaking the world record in the 200-meter race in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.

Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama. Photographer Walker Evans.

Chickasha, Oklahoma - July 23, 1936. This is a picture of a beauty contest along with a diving contest by the pool at Shannon Springs Park in Chickasha Oklahoma which was taken on July 23, 1936.

This was part of the opening ceremony. The temperature was at 115 degrees that day.

It was so hot, that two tons of ice was ordered to be dumped into the pool to make it cooler. The pool was 100x200 feet and was large enough to hold up to 400 visitors.

Mae West in 1936.

Farm workers, Crittenden County, Arkansas. Carl Mydans. 1936.

The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge nearing completion, March, 1936.

 

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Looking out from the George Washington bridge, New York City, December 22 1936.

This is the original April 18, 1936 booking photo for Charles 'Lucky' Luciano. Luciano is considered the father of organized crime in New York and was the first to divide the city sections controlled by five mob families.

On January 29, 1936, the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame elects its first members in Cooperstown, New York: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson and Walter Johnson.

Cooling down at a public park in the U.S., 1936.

Aboard the steamer Normandie, 1936, these men are volunteers going to the Spanish Civil War.

A journalist dashes across a bridge between to rescue a baby during the Spanish Civil War.

Children on Mulberry St on the Lower East Side turn an excavation site into a temporary swimming hole using water from a fire hydrant as July temperatures hit record heights in the city in 1936.

Biplanes, BG-1 and BFC-2 Goshawks pictured in formation above San Diego Bay, August 28, 1936.

Canadian International Brigaders looking badass. Circa 1936.

Police chasing anti fascists in London during Battle of Cable St 4th October 1936.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street

 

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Benito Mussolini fights a fencing duel with a Fascist militia officer, 1936. The match was watched by Nazi newspapermen, who were visiting Rome, and Fascist officials.

Women of the Spanish Republican Militia during the Spanish Civil War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

European Jews on Ellis Island protest against their deportation to Germany, (1936).

Barcelona 1936. Men take cover behind the bodies of dead horses during a fierce gun battle as the Spanish War rages.

A man roaming Chicago’s famous LaSalle Street station, 1936. Photograph by William M. Rittase.

This is what a TV camera looked like in 1936 at the Berlin Olympics.

A large relief map carved out in marble at ???? ???? ?????? "Bharat Mata Mandir" (Mother India Temple), Varanasi built in 1936 by Babu Shiv Prasad Gupta and inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi. Bharat Mata Mandir (meaning "Mother India Temple") is located on the Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith campus in Varanasi, India. Instead of traditional statues of gods and goddesses, this temple has a huge map of undivided India carved in marble. This temple is dedicated to Bharat Mata and claims to be the only one of its kind in the world

Salvador Dali, 1936.

July 1936. Hill House, Mississippi. Sharecroppers' families gathering needs for their Fourth of July celebration, by Dorothea Lange.

 

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7-foot Bolaji Badejo, a Nigerian design student and one-time actor, wearing his costume from the now classic sci-fi thriller Alien, 1978.

Burt Reynolds shaves off his mustache after Steve Martin dares him on the Tonight Show, 1978.

Ben Burtt screen-testing the original Boba Fett costume at George Lucas's home for the filmmaker and "The Empire Strikes Back" crew, circa June 1978.

Mugshot of Tim Allen after his arrest for possession of 1.4 lbs of cocaine in 1978.

Eric Idle, Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford, 1978 at Carrie Fischer's apartment which she was renting from Idle at the time of the making of Empire Strikes Back.

Ace Frehley of Kiss and his guitars, 1978.

Joan Jett 1978, Hotel in LA.

Queen, 1978.

Stevie Ray and Jimmie Lee Vaughan, 1978.

Christopher Walken, Robert De Niro, Chuck Aspegren, John Savage and John Cazale on the set of The Deer Hunter, 1978.

 

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Muhammad Ali & Don King enjoying some reading material, 1978.

Madonna's Yearbook photo, 1978.

Stan Lee poses for Us Weekly, 1978.

Sid Vicious, Nancy and Lemmy Kilmister in 1978 when Lemmy was trying to teach Sid the bass. It did't take let's just say.

Set pictures from John Carpenters 1978 Halloween.

Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, and Laraine Newman on the set of SNL. February 1978.

Tom Baker and the lovely Mary Tamm on the set of 1978 Doctor Who serial "The Stones of Blood".

Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth - first tour 1978 at the McDonalds in Des Plaines, Illinois.

 

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Sigourney Weaver tests out the flame-thrower prior to filming "Alien" on the Shepperton Studios' backlot lawn, 1978. A remote switch was used to activate the lighter inside, and once lit, director Ridley Scott "liked to keep it that way."

Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta Grease premiere ~ 1978.

Jazz legend Charles Mingus, 1978.

George Clinton from the Motor Booty Affair album cover, 1978.

Bill Murray and Gilda Radner at Studio 54 in 1978.

The Misfits, circa 1978.

Crown Prince Charles on the cover of Time in 1978.

Underrated 70's beauty Maren Jensen in her Battlestar Galactica costume, 1978.

Art for a magazine for kids celebrating the anniversary of the creation of Spider-Man from 1978.

Clarence Clemons and Bruce Springsteen at The Roxy on July 7, 1978.

 

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A small computer can make a big difference. The IBM 5110, under $18,000, 1978.

Police officer playing with kids in Harlem and n 1978.

Child soldiers in Zambia, 1978.

Hanging out at Coney Island, Brooklyn, 1978.

May 18, 1978: A multitasking firefighter at a blaze in Yonkers.

On the street in Tokyo, Japan, 1978.

Armed men on the streets during the Lebanese Civil War, 1978.

Water main break, Bushwick, NYC July 28, 1978.

 

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Frank Sinatra performing in Monte Carlo photographed by Herman Leonard, 1958.

Jane Fowler acts out the role of Maleficent, serving as a model for animators of the 1959 Disney film SLEEPING BEAUTY, circa August 1958.

From the age of 23 to 25 - March 1958 to March 1960 - Elvis Presley was a soldier in in the United States Army. His monthly pay was $78 - plus $1,000 from his record company.

Extraordinarily, different branches of the U.S. Armed Forces had vied with each other to secure Elvis as a serving member. The Navy offered to form an "Elvis Presley" company, created exclusively from Elvis' friends and men from Memphis. As an added incentive, he would be given his own private quarters and would perform in Las Vegas.

Elvis is sworn into the U. S. Army by Maj. Elbert Turner.

His hair shorn, Elvis adjusts his new uniform after his induction at Fort Chaffee.
This was a very significant period in Elvis' life. While away in Germany, his mother died, and he met 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu, later to become his wife, Priscilla Presley. It was also the first and only time he left North America.

Private Presley heads for the barracks.

Prince Philip smiling at his newly crowned Queen, 1958.

Marilyn Monroe poses as Theda Bara for Life Magazine, 1958.

Bruce Lee – cha-cha-cha champion, Hong Kong, 1958.

Lucy and Desi on set and in color, 1958.

Jane Mansfield and Sophia Loren at Romanoff's, Beverly Hills, 1958.

 

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The moment captured here is Elvis comforting his father after the death of his mother ,1958.

Kansas cheerleader consoles Wilt Chamberlain after losing the 1958 NCAA championship.

Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher in Reynolds' 1956 Continental Mark II, 1958.

Billie Holiday in Paris, 1958.

Paul Newman on the beach, 1958.

Larry King, 1958.

Teen heartthrob Ricky Nelson rocking the short-shorts in 1958.

Yves Saint Laurent, photographed by Irving Penn, 1958.

EddieCochran and band in 1958.

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Rescued after 5 days trapped underground, a survivor of the Springhill mining disaster is reunited with his family. Nova Scotia, Canada. October 1958.

Caril Ann Fugate and Charles Starkweather, teenage lovers aged 14 and 19, respectively, at the time of their capture, went on a two-month "Badlands" killing spree (Dec. 1957 - Jan. 1958) through Nebraska and Wyoming, claiming 11 victims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Starkweather

San Francisco 1958.

Beirut, Lebanon - 1958.

Dublin, Ireland 1958.

USAF high altitude jet observing the atomic bomb tests at Bikini atoll, 1958.

Al Smith getting a beer dropped on him in the 1958 World Series.

Martin Luther King arrest for "loitering," 1958, Montgomery, Alabama.

A couple of Cleveland Browns trying to stay warm in 1958.

French cellist Maurice Baquet forgot his cello on the station, 1958.

 

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Cuban Grand Prix, Havana, 1958.

USS Saratoga leaving New York City in 1958.

Eminent domain: July 31, 1958: Lomie Puckett stands guard to prevent bulldozers from leveling her Edendale house for the construction of the Golden State Freeway. Puckett wanted more money than offered for the house. Lomie Puckett stood ground for 5 Days in effort to save her house.
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-02-25/news/mn-2678_1_rental-homes

Mr and Mrs Roy Anderson play with their dog Butch. The massive mastiff was the heaviest (98kg) dog in Britain in 1958.

 

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Gordon Parks documents the backstage life of a New York City showgirl, 1958.

 

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Color image of a burnt out Sherman with what are likely the covered remains of one of the crew at its tracks in Normandy - 1944

Sd.Kfz. 251/3 half track of the 116th Panzer Division rolls past a knocked out M10 Wolverine TD - Schmidt, November 1944.

Last image of B-24G Liberator "Fertile Myrtle", banking away after being attacked by Luftwaffe fighters over Austria - 1944.

The hell of war on the streets of Leningrad in 1944. The German military would lay siege to the city for 872 days finally being pushed back on January 27, 1944. The citizens experienced insane hardships and horrors during the siege.

A Chinese Nationalist soldier, age 10, member of a Chinese division from the X Force, boarding planes in Burma bound for China, May 1944.

U.S. Army military policemen toasting bread over molten lava from Vesuvius. The volcano’s spectacular eruption, began on March 18, 1944. - colorized.

Armored vehicles being torn down at a British salvage dump in Normandy - August 1944.

Lodz Ghetto, 1944. A group of Jewish children transported to the death camp in Chelmno via horse drawn cart.

This is Simone Segouin, an incredible resistance fighter. Her first mission was to steal a Nazi’s bike, and thereafter went on with her team to derail a train, blow up bridges, arrest 25 Nazis in a single day, and, well, liberate France. PS... She's still alive today in 2018.

American soldiers grabbing chow on Christmas eve, 1944.

When this photo was taken The Battle of the Bulge was occurring (Germany's last major offensive during WW2) Which took the lives about 20,000 American and British men, and about 125,000 Germans. Many of these men had to spend hours being shelled, and forced to endure freezing conditions as Christmas rolled around the corner.

 

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Japanese troops carrying cargo on elephants in Burma, 1944.

US Army Air Force Tuskegee airman, circa 1944.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Airmen

American and British nurses from a field hospital sit down for a meal in Normandy, 1944.

1st Canadian Armoured Division advancing towards the Gothic Line, August 26, 1944.

German soldiers marching cautiously past a burning T-34 - 1944.

Russian soldiers and Yugoslav Partisans during Liberation of Belgrade, October 1944.

General George S. Patton on his way to Bastogne. The capture of Bastogne was the ultimate goal of the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive through the Ardennes forest. Bastogne provided a road junction in rough terrain where few roads existed; it would open up a valuable pathway further north for German expansion. The Belgian town was defended by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, which had to be reinforced by troops who straggled in from other battlefields. Food, medical supplies, and other resources eroded as bad weather and relentless German assaults threatened the Americans’ ability to hold out. Nevertheless, Brigadier General Anthony C. MacAuliffe met a German surrender demand with a typewritten response of a single word: “Nuts.”

Enter “Old Blood and Guts,” General Patton. Employing a complex and quick-witted strategy wherein he literally wheeled his 3rd Army a sharp 90 degrees in a counterthrust movement, Patton broke through the German lines and entered Bastogne, relieving the valiant defenders and ultimately pushing the Germans east across the Rhine.

B-32 Bomber Factory in Fort Worth, Texas,1944.

Finnish infantry battalion beginning encircling move against the Germans, Lapland, Finland, October 1944.

KIA Battle of Cherbourg 1944.

This dead German soldier was one of the "last stand" defenders of German-held Cherbourg. Captain Earl Topley, who led one of the first outfits into the fallen city, blamed him for killing three of his boys until they got him with a grenade. France, 06/27/1944

 

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British Commandos in Ouistreham, Normandy 6 June 1944.

Private First Class Huston Riley, Normandy, D-Day, the 6th of June, 1944.

It was the invasion to save civilization, and LIFE’s Robert Capa was there, the only still photographer to wade with the 34,250 troops onto Omaha Beach during the D-Day landing. His photographs—infused with jarring movement from the center of that brutal assault—gave the public an American soldier’s view of the dangers of war. The soldier in this case was Private First Class Huston Riley, who after the Nazis shelled his landing craft jumped into water so deep that he had to walk along the bottom until he could hold his breath no more. When he activated his Navy M-26 belt life preservers and floated to the surface, Riley became a target for the guns and artillery shells mowing down his comrades. Struck several times, the 22-year-old soldier took about half an hour to reach the Normandy shore. Capa took this photo of him in the surf and then with the assistance of a sergeant helped Riley, who later recalled thinking, “What the hell is this guy doing here? I can’t believe it. Here’s a cameraman on the shore.” Capa spent an hour and a half under fire as men around him died. A courier then transported his four rolls of film to LIFE’s London offices, and the magazine’s general manager stopped the presses to get them into the June 19 issue. Most of the film, though, showed no images after processing, and only some frames survived. The remaining images have a grainy, blurry look that gives them the frenetic feel of action, a quality that has come to define our collective memory of that epic clash.

A line of American amour pushes through Folligny, Normandy and a local hands an American tanker a bottle of wine, 1944.

The aftermath of Allied bombardment and the D-Day invasion, Saint-Lô, Normandy, 1944.

Women's Army Corps members in the control tower as two B-25 Mitchells fly by, Randolph Field, Texas, 1944.

New York, 1944 - Christmas packages destined for soldiers who were killed or were missing in action await 'return to sender' stamps.

The USS-Fiske (DE-143) was an Edsall-class destroyer escort tasked with patrolling the Atlantic. In the summer of 1944, she and her sister ship USS Douglas L. Howard (DE-138) were hunting down German U-boats transmitting weather forecasts in the central Atlantic ocean.

On August 2nd, they made visual contact with U-804 which had surfaced to use its radio. She quickly dived but was picked up on sonar by the Americans. While preparing for an attack run, the USS Fiske was suddenly struck amidships by a torpedo fired by U-804 and broke in half.

33 were killed and 50 severely wounded. Survivors were picked up by the USS Farquhar (DE-139).

After breaking apart, the stern sunk to the bottom but the bow section had remained floating as seen here. It was eventually sunk by additional gunfire.

About eight months later, U-804 was departing from Northern Germany with U-1065 when they were attacked by over 30 British Mosquito combat aircraft on April 9th, 1945. Both were struck multiple times by RP-3 rockets and had exploded before rapidly sinking. There were no survivors on either ship.

British soldiers with captured German "Goliath" tracked mines (SdKfz 302) in Normandy, France 1944.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_tracked_mine

An emaciated boy during the Dutch famine (Hongerwinter), the Netherlands, World War II, circa 1944. The picture was taken in Amsterdam by photographer Marius Meyboom, member of the Dutch resistance group 'De Ondergedoken Camera' (The Camera in Hiding). The boy in the photo is Henkie Holvast. He later became a symbol of child suffering during World War II.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944–45

 

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The round house with turntable at Mile End (Adelaide) in South Australia. No date but a long time ago.

Canadian Pacific FP7A locomotive 4061 pictured in Hamilton Ontario, 1978.

 

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Mitsubishi G4M "Betty" in flames viewed from the cockpit of the FAW-2 Consolidated PB2Y-3 Coronado flying boat that shot it down over the Central Pacific - May 1944.

A member of the French resistance, smiling at a German firing squad in 1944. The mock execution was actually one of a few methods the Nazis used to get the resistance member to break. His name was Georges Blind. Blind was eventually killed by firing squad but not the one depicted in this photo. It's said Blind actually never spoke a word to his captors.

Ulithi Atoll, home to the 3rd Fleet in late 1944. The land in the foreground is one of several depot islands surrounding the anchorage.

13 June 1944: An English brewery donates a sizable amount of fresh beer for the troops fighting in Normandy and a unique delivery method is created, strapping kegs to the underwings of Spitfires being shipped to forward airfields. Flying at 12 000 feet.

Christopher Lee - WWII special operative, Dracula, bond villain, Death, Saruman, Count Dooku, heavy metal vocalist, Knight Bachelor, amid other honors – as a young officer in Vatican City, 1944, shortly after the liberation of Rome.

The naked gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944:


This young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission has just jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot who was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul. Since Japanese coastal defense guns were firing at the plane while it was in the water during take-off, this brave young man, after rescuing the pilot, manned his position as machine gunner without taking time to put on his clothes. A hero photographed right after he’d completed his heroic act. Naked.

Photo taken by Horace Bristol (1908-1997). In 1941, Bristol was recruited to the U.S. Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, as one of six photographers under the command of Captain Edward J. Steichen, documenting World War II in places such as South Africa, and Japan. He ended up being on the plane the gunner was serving on, which was used to rescue people from Rabaul Bay (New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea), when this occurred. In an article from a December 2002 issue of B&W magazine he remembers:

“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”

A Finnish soldier looks at the burning of the town of Rovaniemi on October 14, 1944.

Dutch girls write messages for friends and relatives in other towns on Allied tanks in hope they will be seen when the tanks roll forth on their liberation mission, 1944.

Aerial combat footage from 1944 of American and British forces going against the German Luttwaffe:

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Japanese Air Attack on US Navy Aircraft Carrier Task Force Off Saipan

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U.S. WW2 era M1 nightvision scope 1944. The U.S. in WW2 had actually developed alongside the British IRNV optics as early as 1941. By 1942 they had been tested on tanks and by 1944 the M1 was in service in the Pacific theater. By 1945 the M3 had been introduced. The M1 and M3 were both lighter, more reliable, and had better pictures than the Nazi German Vampire system. Furthermore as early as 1939 the British had developed way to detect Infrared.

Two seconds before execution - Polish resistance members, Warsaw Uprising 1944.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Uprising

19 year old P-47 Thunderbolt pilot examining propeller damage caused by a German flak shell, 1944.

Lt. Edwin Wright returned to base from Münster, Germany, after completing his 39th mission. Upon landing he noticed just how close he was to certain death after finding an 8-inch wide hole in one of the 11-inch wide propellor blades caused by a direct hit from anti-aircraft artillery. This was the 6th time he was struck by flak, earning him the nickname "Lucky Wright".

Captain Nieves Fernandez, the only known Filipino female guerilla leader and formerly a school teacher, shows U.S. Army Pvt. Andrew Lupiba how she used her long knife to silently kill Japanese soldiers during the Japanese occupation of Leyte Island, 1944. Many of the Filipino guerilla fighters of the war were practiced in the martial art methods of the Philippines, called by very different names across the islands: Arnis, Escrma, Kali Silat. The Filipino fighters were often only armed with bladed weapons in their struggles against the Japanese occupation.

Flight deck of American aircraft carrier USS Lexington filled with whirling propellers as planes (F6F Hellcats) await takeoff during Palau air raid attack. Date picture taken: 30th March 1944.

An American soldier and his English girlfriend on lawn in Hyde Park, London, 1944.

German and Austrian Expats Fighting in the British army - France 1944.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/5220598/Britains-secret-German-army.html

F6F-5P Hellcat snapping in two in botched landing aboard the USS Princeton (CVL-23) c1943-1944.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower launches Operation Overlord - Jun 06, 1944.

American GI's make time to relax with some baseball somewhere in the European theater of operations, 1944.

 

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt driving in his convertible with his dog Fala through Hyde Park, 1944.

U.S. Navy Officer Graham Jackson, a friend of President Roosevelt, playing at his funeral April, 1944.

Bathing Beauties. Fox studios starlets Trudy Marshall, Jeanne Crain, Gale Robbins, June Haver, and Mary Anderson in a publicity still, 1944.

The main file room at FBI headquarters in Washington DC, 1944. A decidedly pre-digital era of record keeping.

The Carter Handicap 1944: Triple Dead Heat.

Patty Thomas with Bob Hope's USO troupe on Majura, Marshall Islands, 7/27/1944.

New York City's Theater District, 1944.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1944.

Men deliver ripe coffee berries to El Molino mill for processing in El Salvador, November 1944.

Germany, Nordhausen, prisoners of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp working on V1, V2, 1944.

 

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Man fixing car engine takes a smoke break, Brooklyn NYC, 1959.

Uh... Apparently a guide to "Girl Watching" from 1959.

Vancouver, 1959.

A young woman demonstrates the "Auto Mignon," a new German record player which can be attached to the dashboard of a car, at the International Industrial Fair in Hannover, West Germany, May 12, 1959. The player is fully automatic and works simply by placing a 45 rpm record in the slot. It is made by the German Phillips Company. (AP Photo/Peter Hillebrecht)

Las Vegas 1959.

Little Rock High School integration protest in 1959.

1959 Yale University local pipe smoking contest.

Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain shake hands before their first NBA game against one another, Nov. 1959.

In car communication circa 1959.

High School dance (Sweden, 1959)

 

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Eartha Kitt photographed by Isaac Sutton, c. 1959

Eartha Kitt backstage in 1959 ingesting honey to keep her throat clear during singing.

Angie Dickinson and Howard Hawks on the set of Rio Bravo, 1959.

Marilyn Monroe at the opening of the USA-Israel Football International, at Ebbets Field in 1959.

Elvis Presley signing autographs for fans in Germany, 1959.

Mercury 7 astronauts, 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Seven

Michael Caine, c. 1959.

Paul McCartney taking a mirror selfie (1959)

 

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Waylon and Buddy in a NY photobooth, 1959.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died

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Ernest Hemingway playing football with a can of beer – 1959.

Director Alfred Hitchcock on the set of "Psycho" (1959)

The cover of Tales To Astonish from Jan. 1959.

Mickey Mantle walkoff, 1959. Ebullient fans rushed the field as Mickey Mantle hit a home run in the 10th inning to win the game. The victory over the Chicago White Sox was a sweep by the Yankees, putting them above .500. Alas, the Yanks finished third in the American League, and the White Sox went on to lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series. (June 18, 1959)

The brothers Gibb, AKA, The Bee Gees in Australia, 1959.

Steve Ditko, one half of the duo that created The Amazing Spider-Man, 1959.

Sammy Davis Jr. as Sportin' Life in "Porgy and Bess," 1959. (Gjon Mili—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

March 12, 1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th star on the American flag.

Patty Duke 1959.

 

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7 years old George clooney with his family back in 1968.

Jimi Hendrix having his hair done while reading Mad magazine, 1968.

Johnny Cash performing for prisoners at Folsom Prison on January 13, 1968.

The Who in NYC as captured by photographer to the rock elite Art Kane, 1968. During the shoot, 2 neighborhood children came along after school to play in the park, and Kane asked them to sit in and watch. Their clothes match the tones of the flag perfectly.

Stephen Colbert and family, 1968.

The always beguiling Sigourney Weaver in 1968.

John Lennon? and his son Julian Lennon? posing with a Rolls Royce Phantom V in his garage, 1968.

DeForest Kelley, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy pretending to shave with their phasers on the Star Trek set. 1968.

Leonard Nimoy's response to a letter written to him by a young biracial teen in 1968.

 

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Robert F. Kennedy sleeps on the floor of a plane during his 1968 presidential campaign.

Hippie girl in Washington Square Park , 1968.

London's first black police officer, PC Norwell Roberts, on duty in 1968.

Women's dorm room, 1968.

T-62 tank bringing down the house during the "Prague Spring" in 1968.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring

On the streets of Saigon, 1968.

A young man is styling from his head to his toes on the streets of Boston, 1968.

Smith (US), Carlos (US), and Norman (AUS) making a stand for human rights at the 1968 Olympics. both Americans raised fists in a symbolic black power salute while sharing a pair of gloves between them. All three athletes wore badges to raise awareness for human rights in the world.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute

NYC garbage strike, 1968. Sanitation workers had been without a contract for six months when they rejected Mayor John Lindsay's proposal and went on strike on February 2. As the garbage on the streets of New York City accumulated to over 100,000 tons, negotiations between Lindsay and union leaders went poorly. Finally, on February 10, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller stepped in, offering a $425 wage increase and future arbitration, which the workers agreed to and ended the strike.

James Earl Jones in New York City, 7th October 1968.

 

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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (photos taken by Joseph Louw and Henry Groskinsky) April 4, 1968, Memphis, Tennessee.

Martin Luther King standing on the balcony on the day of his assassination along with his best friend Ralph Abernathy on the right. On the left is Jesse Jackson.

Everyone pointing to the area from which James Earl Ray fired his weapon.

This photo was taken later on that night, by then everyone knew that Martin Luther King was dead. The man in this photo was the brother of the Lorraine Motel's owner named Theatrice Bailey. He was sent to clean the blood up.

Photo taken the night of the shooting from almost the exact same place & at the same angle as the shooter.

King, in his own words:

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."


"Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice."


"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."


"Riots are not the causes of white resistance, they are consequences of it."


"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."


Finally, his prophetic words a mere day before he died...

"And then I got to Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?

Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."