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Behind the Picture: RFK’s Assassination, Los Angeles, 1968

Fifteen-year-old Louis Cousins, Maury High School, Norfolk, Va., 1959. history

After ‘Brown v. Board of Education’: Portraits of Integration, Virginia, 1959

Calvin R. Patrick, 18, Army, Pfc., Houston, Texas history

Faces of the American Dead in Vietnam: One Week’s Toll, June 1969

Silhouettes of West Berliners waving to their relatives on the other side are cast across the Berlin Wall. history

Berlin Wall: Photos From the Birth of a Brutal Divide

Lance Cpl. James C. Farley, helicopter crew chief, Vietnam, 1965. history

Sudden Death in Vietnam: ‘One Ride With Yankee Papa 13’

John and Robert Kennedy at a hearing of a Senate select committee on labor racketeering, 1957. history

JFK: Portraits of a Political Superstar, 1947-1963

President Harry Truman jubilantly holds up a Chicago newspaper emblazoned with the (erroneous) headline, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. In fact, Truman handily beat New York governor Thomas Dewey in the tight 1948 presidential election. history

Behind the Picture: ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’

Craftsmen work on a huge diorama prior to the opening of the 1939 Worlds Fair. history

‘The World of Tomorrow’: Scenes From the 1939 New York World’s Fair

John Hunt, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, 1953 history

High Society: Hillary and Tenzing After the First Ascent of Everest

Russian soldiers and a civilian struggle to move a large bronze Nazi Party eagle that once loomed over a doorway of the Reich Chancellery, Berlin, 1945. history

After the Fall: Photos of Hitler’s Bunker and the Ruins of Berlin

View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew traveling toward the moon, Dec. 7, 1972. history

Home, Sweet Home: In Praise of Apollo 17’s ‘Blue Marble’

Not originally published in LIFE. Tense scene at a brokerage office during the 1962 stock market "flash crash." history

Panic From A Distance: Remembering the Market’s “Flash Crash” of 1962

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