Daily Photo — “LBJ Anguish Photo, 1968”
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In this White House photo taken by Jack Kightlinger on July 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson listens to a tape recording from his son-in-law Capt. Charles Robb, who was a Marine Corps company commander in Vietnam.
“President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to tape sent by Captain Charles Robb from Vietnam, 07/31/1968”, Jack E. Kightlinger, Photographer (National Archives Identifier: 192617); Collection LBJ-WHPO: White House Photo Office Collection, 11/22/1963 – 01/20/1969; Lyndon Baines Johnson Library; National Archives and Records Administration.
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Tags: 1960s, emotion, history, lbj, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Presidential History, soldiers, vietnam, Vietnam War, war, warm-ups, White House, writing
Daily Photo — “Rebellion, 1964”
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1964. “Cecil Williams, civil rights photographer in the segregated South”.
Cecil Williams, the subject of this photo] was there during the 1960s sit-ins, during Harvey Gantt’s desegregation of Clemson University, during the strike of hospital workers in Charleston, during the shooting and killing of S.C. State University students in the Orangeburg Massacre. … Williams’ work forms one of the nation’s most comprehensive photo collections on the civil rights era. His photos have been published in 128 books, hundreds of newspapers and included in 14 television documentaries. … [He] began his photography career at the age of 9 with a hand-me-down camera. The Rev. I. DeQuincey Newman, field director for the NAACP, would fetch Williams from school so that the teen could document civil rights events. A Williams photo recording black students barred from worship by a white church elder made its way around the world. (Mine)
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Tags: 1960s, African-American history, american history, American South, analysis, civil disobedience, civil rights, civil rights movement, history, segregation, us history, warm-ups, writing
Daily Photo — “Brooklyn Halloween, 1965”
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1965. Children dressed up to go trick or treating in Brooklyn, NY. Scan of B&W negative.
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Daily Photo — “Quick Chicken Stop, 1960”
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Spring 1960. “Efforts of John F. Kennedy’s campaign team, including members of his family, in West Virginia during Kennedy’s quest for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. Includes brother Bob at a drive-in in Bluefield.” From photos by Bob Lerner for the Look magazine article “The Kennedys: A Family Political Machine.” 35mm negative.
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Tags: 1960s, analysis, food, history, JFK, John F. Kennedy, politics, Presidential Campaign, Presidential History, RFK, Robert Kennedy, us history, warm-ups, West Virginia, writing
Daily Photo — “Which Way Do We Go?, 1967”
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1967. “Driving on the right side” September 3, 1967, known as Högertrafikomläggningen in Sweden was the day they changed the law to drive on the right hand side of the road. Photographer Unknown.
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Daily Artwork — “The Problem We All Live With, Norman Rockwell, 1964”
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1964 — The Problem We All Live With. Oil on Canvas. Social Realism style. Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978). Private collection.
“An iconic image of the civil rights movement in the United States, it depicts Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old African-American girl, on her way in to an all-white public school in New Orleans on November 14, 1960 during the process of racial desegregation. Because of threats and violence against her, she is escorted by four U.S. Deputy Marshals; the painting is framed such that the marshals’ heads are cropped at the shoulders.On the wall behind her is written the racial slur “nigger” and the letters “KKK”; a smashed tomato thrown at Bridges is also visible. The white crowd is not visible, as the viewer is looking at the scene from their point of view. The painting was originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look.” (Wikipaintings)
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Daily Artwork — “Drag – Johnson and Mao, Jim Dine, 1967”
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1967 — Drag – Johnson and Mao. Paper etching. Pop Art style. Jim Dine (1935 – ). Tate Gallery, London, UK.
This double image of the American president LB Johnson and the Chinese leader Chairman Mao humorously subverts the official portrait. (Wikipaintings)
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Tags: 1960s, analysis, critique, etching, Jim Dine, lbj, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Mao, Mao Zedong, political, politics, pop art, portrait, satire, warm-ups, writing
Daily Photo — “Pre-PowerPoint NASA, c.1960s”
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Daily Photo — “Stones in the Park, 1969”
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Two unidentified young women dancing at the Rolling Stones’ “Stones in the Park” concert in Hyde Park, July 5, 1969.
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