Apollo 11 Launched Via Saturn V Rocket
Race to the Moon
he Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) developed Saturn V launch vehicle on July 16, 1969 and safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969. The Saturn V vehicle produced a holocaust of flames as it rose from its pad at Launch complex 39. The 363 foot tall, 6,400,000 pound rocket hurled the spacecraft into Earth parking orbit and then placed it on the trajectory to the moon for mans' first lunar landing. Aboard the space craft were astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, Command Module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module pilot. With the success of Apollo 11, the national objective to land men on the Moon and return them safely to Earth had been accomplished.
NASA on the Commons
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Man Burning Draft Card at Draft Resistance Rally
Vietnam War
Protest
Town Hall Meeting, 1/14/1968, Draft Resistance Rally [Town Hall, New York City]
Department of Justice. Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Judicial District of Massachusetts. 1789-
National Archives and Records Administration
1/14/1968
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John Carlos, Tommie Smith, Peter Norman 1968
Civil Rights
Protest
American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos, along with Australian Peter Norman, during the award ceremony of the 200 m race at the Mexican Olympic games. During the awards ceremony, Smith (center) and Carlos protested against racial discrimination: they went barefoot on the podium and listened to their anthem bowing their heads and raising a fist with a black glove. Mexico City, Mexico, 1968.
Angelo Cozzi
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10/16/1968
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Woman at IBM
Women in the Workforce
Women's Rights
Woman with IBM 403 Accounting Machine
Flickr: IBM 403 Accounting Machine
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1960s
Arnold Reinhold
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Betty Friedan, half-length portrait, facing right
Women's Movement
Betty Friedan, author of Feminine Mystique
Palumbo, Fred
New york World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection
Library of Congress
1960
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Young "hippie"
1968
Student Protest
Young "hippie" standing in front of a row of National Guard soldiers, across the street from the Hilton Hotel at Grant Park, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, August 26, 1968
Leffler, Warren K.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress
8/26/1968
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A New Step Toward Peace PDF
Vietnam War
Published transcript of LBJ Address to Nation in April 1968 announcing a change in strategy in Vietnam in response to the Tet Offensive and his intention not to seek re-election.
Government Printing Office. (1861 - 12/16/2014)
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
National Archives and Records Administration
4-1968
Department of State. 9/1789-, Author
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973, Collaborator
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Excerpt from CBS Morning News CBS September 30, 2016 3:37am-4:00am PDT
Protest
Looking back on American sprinters', Tommie Smith and John Carlos, protest at the 1968 Olympics
CBS Morning News
Prelinger Archives
Prelinger Archives
2016
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President's Daily Brief 8 October, 1968
Student Protest
1968
Daily briefing to President regarding student protests in Mexico City in advance of Olympic Games
National Archives and Records Administration
October 8, 1968
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14 primera conferència de premsa després de la masacre del 2 d'octubre, 5 d'octubre de 1968.jpg
Student Protest
Marcelino Perelló at a Press Conference. Mexico, october the 6th, 1968.
Marcelino Perelló
Wikipedia
october the 6th, 1968
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