When LIFE profiled a cowboy for the Aug. 22, 1949, issue, with photographs by Leonard McCombe, it was presented with the idea that he and people like him were getting ready to ride off into the cultural sunset. The land on which the cowboy once slept was already dotted with new ranch houses, and office jobs were looking more and more attractive as the post-war economy boomed. “Like the frontiersman and the forty-niner, the traditional cowboy is a peculiarly American type, now following them into an honorable extinction,” the story noted. “He is being replaced by feebler men, who refuse to work grueling hours, to go wifeless and broke to the end of their days.”
The story was billed as a “last look” at the “old-time cowboy.”
The man at the center of that tale was Clarence Hailey “C.H.” Long, a 20-year Texas veteran of the profession who found freedom in a life of solitude and physical hardship. He personally trained all 13 of the horses he used to do his job, and his home on the range looked “exactly as a moviegover would expect.”
But in that fact, LIFE acknowledged, lay one of the more subtle truths about the past and future of the cowboy lifestyle.
Even as C.H. Long was a living embodiment of a beloved, but endangered culture, he was already part of a myth forged by Hollywood and dime-store novels, not reality. He knew that the cowboy image that the world celebrated was sometimes more appealing than even the most rewarding liberties of life on the cattle trail.
And on his rare trips into town, he picked up magazines full of Western stories, which he dismissed as “claptrap”, but loved nonetheless, “forgetting his adventurous life to search for adventure in lurid accounts of wild affairs that never happened.”
Clarence H. Long was said to look more youthful than his age of 39.
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At sunset after a day’s work, Long collected his string of horses and considered which of the young ones to pick for a training session.
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Clarence H. Long, cowboy, 1949.
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Bringing in a herd, Long rode slowly at its head. He and his outriders kept a careful pace so that animals would not stampede or trot fast enough to lose valuable weight.
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Clarence H. Long, cowboy, 1949.
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Clarence H. Long with his father, Clarence Long (right).
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Clarence H. Long rolled a cigarette.
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A calf ran off after having been branded, inoculated, and castrated.
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Clarence H. Long, cowboy, 1949.
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Playing with kittens at a rancher’s house, C.H. happily let them crawl all over him.
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The only spot of shade on the empty prairie was the shadow of C.H.’s horse, in which he sat to rest his eyes from the glare and to smoke a hand-rolled cigarette. He only smoked “tailor-made” cigarettes in winter, when he would have had to take off his gloves to roll his own.
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Beside his chuck wagon, cowboy Clarence Long read a western magazine, 1949. When he was through with the magazine he passed it to another cowboy. Such magazines were read and reread until the pages fell apart.
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Long mended a broken fence post, one of the many tasks that filled his day.
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Sometimes you need a reason to give another person a kiss. And, as was the case in probably the most famous kissing photo of all time—the controversial sailor kiss at the moment of victory in World War II—that reason can be a big one. Other times, a kiss is its own reason to celebrate.
How people started kissing is a mystery and why we do it is complicated, but it has been around for many centuries and shows no signs of letting up. From a child’s sweet peck to a lover’s smooch to a walrus’s whiskery wet one, the act is a language of its own. And as time goes by, in each of our lives, it is easy to see that a kiss is not always just a kiss.
Shadows on the ground of kissing figures with camera on tripod between, 1930.
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Two walruses kissing as they eat from a hand between them at the Brookfield zoo, 1938.
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A man and woman kissing while geared to a lie detector machine to measure the emotional reaction, 1939.
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Couple kissing in front of the Delta Tau Delta mummy at the University of the South, 1940.
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Actress Marilyn Hare being kissed by soldiers, 1942.
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Multiple exposure of Deanna Durbin and Edmond O’Brien walking toward each other and kissing; from the motion picture “Tonight and Forever.” 1942.
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Couple in Penn Station sharing farewell kiss before he ships off to war during WWII. 1943.
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Mrs. Martini, wife of the Bronx Zoo lion keeper, kissing a tiger cub. 1944.
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Eisenstaedt’s iconic photo: A jubilant American sailor clutched a dental assistant in a back-bending kiss at a moment of spontaneous joy about the long awaited WWII victory over Japan. Taken on V-J Day, 1945, as thousands jammed Times Square. In recent decades this iconic photograph has engendered condemnation, after Greta Zimmer Friedman, the woman being kissed by the sailor (believed to have been George Mendonsa) said that the kiss was nonconsensual. In 2019, shortly after Mendonsa died at age 95, a statue of the kiss in Florida was tagged with #metoo graffiti.
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A little boy dressed as Uncle Sam, kissing a little girl on the cheek, 1945.
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Newlyweds Marshall Jacobs and wife Yolanda kiss after being married atop a flagpole. 1946.
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Peggy Lee getting a goodnight kiss on the nose from her 4-year-old daughter Nicki at home. 1948.
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Baseball player Yogi Berra getting a kiss from his wife, Carmen, before leaving for the clubhouse. 1949.
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Gallant tiger bowing to kiss the hand of flapper Barbara Pettit, 1949.
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Christina Goldsmith tenderly kissing a Weimaraner puppy, which she took from a litter of her father’s stock (he was a top breeder of Weimaraner hunting dogs). 1950.
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Josephine Baker receiving a congratulatory kiss on the nose from her husband, orchestra leader Jo Bouillon, after Baker’s show at the Strand theater during her US tour, 1951.
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Jill Corey giving her grandmother, “Mamouch”, a kiss on the forehead, 1953.
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Irish McCalla as “Sheena Queen of the Jungle” kissing her chimpanzee costar, 1955.
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Elvis Presley tenderly kissing the cheek of a female admirer backstage before his concert, 1956.
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A University of Michigan student couple engaged in an impromptu kiss in the Union Building on campus. 1957. This was forbidden conduct because rules required couples to have both feet on the floor.
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Richard Ramsey, a worker in cosmetic company, was covered with relics of lipstick kisses to prove that dyes in lipsticks are harmless. 1960.
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Steve McQueen kissed Natalie Wood’s hand as the actors met to discuss their new big-screen project, 1963’s “Love With the Proper Stranger.”
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Astronaut Gus “Virgil” Grissom kissed his mother after his successful Gemini 3 mission, 1965.
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Dustin Hoffman kissed his wife, 1969.
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Oberlin College students kissed in a co-ed dorm, 1970.
In 1953, photographer Wallace Kirkland explored the archetype of the Northern woodsman for LIFE Magazine, with a photo profile of the perfectly named Rock Robertson—”Strong Man of the North,” per the article’s headline.
Rock, at 31, six feet tall and 205 pounds, got his name from a grandfather who, predictably perhaps, had acquired the nickname due to his great strength. As a professional hunting and fishing guide, Rock Robertson regularly carried 300 pounds for miles and could pull off a moose mating call good enough to draw in the bulls that hunters wanted most. He once went more than a week without food, because of a storm, before walking 48 miles in snowshoes to get out of the woods. He faced the forest with a smile and a shrug, embracing the outdoors lifestyle that his ancestors—French-Canadian, First Nations and Scottish—had likewise lived.
“He has been known, when the mood takes him, to pick up a stove and heave it through a cook-shack wall,” the article noted. “But generally Rock’s moods are sunny and his broad shoulders are put to practical and picturesque uses as a woodsman and as a guide.”
Out camping deep in the Canadian north woods, Rock Robertson grinned through the doorway of trapper’s birchbark tepee.
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Robertson smoked some fish in the wild country between Hudson Bay and the St. Lawrence.
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Rock (right) and brother Harry arm-wrestled. After winning, Rock said, `He’s good, and I’m good.'”
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On a portage Rock packed 300 pounds.
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Rock’s moosecall got answering grunts from an amorous bull who came up from half a mile away.
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Rock carrying a moose haunch. North woodsmen preferred moose to beef or venison.
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A battered canoe leaked furiously but was still afloat, patched up with spruce gum and boughs.
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A snared partridge flapped futilely after Rock pulled it from a tree.
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The fire broiled the partridge and also dried out a pair of wet socks dangling from the box.
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Seeing a black bear in the water, Rock paused to determine the size of quarry and to which shore he would try to herd it.
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As the bear neared the shore, Rock raised his rifle. When the bear reached water’s edge he brought it down.
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Rock approached the bear warily.
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Bringing back the bear, Rock easily balanced the canoe on his head. Rock said he could walk for hours with this kind of load. `I sweat like hell,’ he said. `Man who don’t sweat get tired.'”
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Rock Robertson with his wife and child.
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The photographers on LIFE Magazine’s staff did it all, taking on assignments wide and varied without a blink of the eye. John Dominis was no exception. He joined LIFE as a staff photographer in 1950 and would go on to shoot some of the biggest stars of the era Steve McQueen, Frank Sinatra and Robert Redford to name a few. He also shot one of the most iconic images of the 20th century: Tommie Smith and John Carlos giving the black power salute at the Olympics in Mexico.
Here, LIFE looks back at one of his lesser known shoots—the African Antelope, which was a cover story and a follow up to The Great Cats of Africa, which would earn him Magazine Photographer of the year in 1966 and later become a book. In the Editor’s Note that accompanies the story, Dominis described how he was able to get the dramatic photo of the “bizarre wildebeest” (the last slide in the gallery above) without a telephoto lens.
“I wanted to get low-angle shots that gave a dramatic sense of their speed. I built boxes out of plywood and mounted cameras inside of them,” Dominis explained. “John [Mbuthi, a local whom Dominis worked with on the story] and I worked for three weeks with them. We’d go a mile ahead of a herd and put down the boxes and camouflage them. Then we’d hide a quarter of a mile away and wait maybe for several hours. Meanwhile the light might change and there was no way I could alter the exposure on the cameras. If the animal reached the boxes, I pushed the button that triggered the motorized cameras by a radio signal and ran off a whole roll of film. I must have exposed 40 rolls, but ended up with only one really good frame.”
Featured in this gallery are images provided by the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin of these contraptions that John Dominis set up. These rarely seen images show a photographer at work and just how resourceful Dominis was in getting the shot.
The Briscoe Center recently acquired the John Dominis archive after his daughter, Dori Beer, reached out to the center. His longtime friend and photo editor M.C. Marden organized the collection, which contains a comprehensive look at his professional and personal work and life. While his archive won’t be open to the public until later in 2017, the Briscoe Center the photojournalism collection of which also includes the work of Diana Walker, Eddie Adams, Dirck Halstead and others is open for research and focuses on a behind-the-scenes look at how Americans experience the world, from politics to war to wildlife, via the media.
“Pictures like [Dominis” animal series] have something to say about how Americans (though magazines like LIFE) perceive the outside world,” said Ben Wright of the Briscoe Center, in a statement to LIFE. “These pictures and collections are not only beautiful and interesting: they’re historical evidence that help historians to understand the past with accuracy and integrity.”
John Dominis on assignment in Africa, 1969.
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There are few more spectacular sights than a herd of oryx striding across the grasslands, with scores of saberlike horns glistening in the sun.
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Soaring above the thick brush of East Africa, two impala moved with a flowing grace unsurpassed in the animal kingdom.
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The gazelle is one of the fleetest of the antelope. Among it’s natural enemies, only the cheetah has a chance of running it down.
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John Dominis on assignment in Africa, 1969.
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John Dominis on assignment in Africa, 1969.
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John Dominis on assignment in Africa, 1969.
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John Dominis on assignment in Africa, 1969.
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The wildebeest (South African Dutch for “wild beast”) are the oddest and fiercest-looking antelope of all.
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In May of 1963, as the surf craze swept the U.S. and popular images of surfers tempted newcomers into the water in the days before wetsuits were common, LIFE magazine had a message its readers: Surfing was fun but it wasn’t all fun and games. It was also dangerous, especially when it came to the waves off the North Shore of Oahu.
The magazine explained to unfamiliar readers how the sport worked there: “The men who ride the big ones in Hawaii actually ski down the shoulder of a wave away from the curl… They call the first breathtaking schuss ‘taking the drop.’ Their boards accelerate up to 35 mph so rapidly that they kick up waves like speedboats. And a merciless mauling awaits the unfortunate who doesn’t complete his ride. He is driven downward by the appalling maelstrom, tossed around, sucked back down and frequently, after fighting up for a desperate gulp of air, hammered down again by the next wave.”
And yet a brave group of surfers sought out the big waves anyway, for what LIFE called the “peril and ecstasy” of the sport’s toughest waves. Enabled by new innovations in balsa wood surfboards that had opened new vistas to surfers in the 1940s, the surfers returned again and again, despite the risks.
Looking at these photos by George Silk, it’s not hard to see what drew the surfers back to the water. Some experienced, what surfer Fred Van Dyke described to Silk as, “the greatest feeling the world.”
Nick Beck of Honolulu caught a wave on his light board.
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A pair of riders, cutting frothy furrows in the wall of a wild 18-footer, seemed headed on a collision course at Sunset Beach.
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Surfer Rick Grigg caught a ride at Banzai Beach, Oahu, Hawaii, 1963.
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A teenage girl rode the surf, 1963.
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Hawaii, 1963.
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Preston Leavey, paddling frantically to get on a wave and begin his ride. A camera, was bolted to the front of the board and recorded the glitter of refracted light from the spray.
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Before riding in on great waves surfers had to fight their way out past foaming barriers.
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At Sunset Beach, a surfer rode a thundering 15-footer.
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Hawaii surfers, 1963.
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Hawaii surfers, 1963.
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Joe Kaohi maneuvered desperately to cling to his board as he tried to ride into the tunnel of a wave at Banzai Beach.
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Hawaii surfer, 1963.
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On June 5, 1967 in the first hours of the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War, LIFE Magazine photographer Paul Schutzer was killed while riding in a half-track personnel carrier heading toward Gaza.
When he’d been hired in 1957, Schutzer was the youngest LIFE staff photographer. Over the course of a decade, until his death at age 36, he shot 491 stories for the magazine, including the 1960 Presidential campaign. At the Kennedy inauguration, he captured the iconic photograph of a beaming President with his glamorous wife, a symbol of the Camelot mystique.
During the magazine’s heyday, LIFE’s picture stories brought readers up close to unfolding events. For a photographer, an assignment was a passport to far-flung worlds and the front lines of history. Behind the scenes, Schutzer recorded the lives of leaders such as Presidents Eisenhower, Nixon and Kennedy, as well as Martin Luther King Jr. Describing her father’s work, Schutzer’s daughter Dena explains, “He focused on the people in power and the powerless, the people who were responsible for the events and those who were affected by them.”
From tensions at the Berlin Wall, to life in the war-torn villages of Vietnam, to the fight for desegregation by men and women demanding basic civil rights, the stories Schutzer covered required him to take numerous risks. Before boarding a bus heading to the Jim Crow south, he once wrote to his wife Bernice, “I’m going on the bus with the Freedom Riders. The magazine at first ordered me not to go, but the very reasons for not going, is the reason I must… This story should be told.” He was working at a time of American greatness, Bernice now recounts. “He wasn’t jaded or cynical.” He wanted to connect and did so by getting close. He carefully edited his own work after each assignment, telling his wife that he would have been lucky to have taken even ten great photographs in a lifetime.
Schutzer traveled extensively through Eastern Europe, where he was deeply affected by what he saw at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp. His family tells LIFE that, particularly as a Jewish person living and working in the post-war years, he was inspired by the spirit and promise of the new state of Israel. So it was no surprise that, with war looming there in 1967, he was eager to be there. Determined, he prevailed on his friend Moshe Dayan, then Israel’s Minister of Defense, to embed with an assault unit.
He didn’t intend to stay long, saying to his wife that he was finished with war. He was shot soon after. “One perhaps can console oneself that Paul died where he wanted to die and gave his life for what he felt most. And that is true,” LIFE eulogized the next week. “But we have lost an exceptional, first-rate man in Yiddish this type is called a mensch. Paul was a mensch.”
After his death, LIFE received many condolences and tributes, including from the master photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who said he admired Schutzer’s work and attitude toward photography. In a telegram, Robert Kennedy wrote, “Paul Schutzer was highly regarded as a professional and a friend of President John Kennedy and all those associated with him. His ability, intelligence, sense of humor, and devotion to his craft will be missed by his colleagues and friends.”
Schutzer’s complete photographic archive, a unique chronicle of the cold war era, has never been viewed, recognized retrospectively or compiled in a book. That is something his family hopes to one day achieve, but on the anniversary of his death here is a look at some of the highlights of that body of work.
President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in the Presidential Box overlooking the crowd at inaugural gala, Jan. 20, 1961.
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Jacqueline Kennedy and her husband John F. Kennedy, on eve of his Presidential inauguration, Jan. 19, 1961. They attended a gala hosted by Frank Sinatra at the National Guard Armory, Washington, D.C.
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Young women swoon at a campaign appearance of presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, late 1960.
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John F. Kennedy prepared a speech as admirers watched from outside a window, Baltimore, September 1960.
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Supporters of presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, New York City, October 1960.
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Sen.John F. Kennedy campaigned in New York City, October 1960.
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Supporters of presidential candidate John F. Kennedy on a campaign tour, 1960.
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President Kennedy walked hand-in-hand with daughter Caroline on St. Patrick’s Day at the White House, March 17, 1961.
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Supporters of President John F. Kennedy, 1960.
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President John F. Kennedy watched a film in Press Secretary Pierre Salinger’s office, Feb. 2, 1961.
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An East German policeman attempted to stop Western photographers by flashing mirrors into camera lenses. Sept. 8, 1961. A month earlier, East Germany began cordoning off the Eastern sector of the city.
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A seventeen-year-old East Berlin youth was helped by two West Berlin police officers after he climbed over the newly constructed wall from East Berlin, October 1961.
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A young girl gazed through her apartment window which looked out on barbed wire fencing that topped the nearby Berlin Wall, December 1962.
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Marilyn Monroe and her husband Arthur Miller drove to Connecticut in 1956, shortly after their marriage.
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Sen. John Kennedy with his brother at Robert Kennedy’s home in McLean, Va., May 1957.
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Robert Kennedy and his wife Ethel before bedtime at their home in Maclean, Va, April 30, 1957.
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A waiter lit a cigarette for a socialite at the Piedmont ball, 1958, Atlanta, Ga.
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Lewis Cousins (C) sat in a class surrounded by white students. Cousins was the first black student to attend the newly desegregated Maury High School in Norfolk, Va, 1959.
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Freedom Riders waited in a ‘Colored Waiting Room’ at a bus station in Montgomery, Ala., May 1961. The Freedom Riders rode buses throughout the south in the months following the Boynton v. Virginia Supreme Court case, which outlawed racial segregation on public transportation, in order to test and call attention to still existing local policies that ran contrary to national laws.
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Near the Mississippi-Alabama border, members of the Alabama National Guard surrounded a bus carrying freedom riders, May 1961.
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Julia Aaron and David Dennis with 25 other freedom riders were escorted by Mississippi National Guardsmen travelling from Montgomery, Ala. to Jackson, Miss., May 1961.
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White men threw stones at a bus carrying freedom riders protesting segregation in the south, as they travelled from Montgomery, Ala., May 1961.
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Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King attended a prayer pilgrimage, May 17, 1957, Washington, D.C., on the third anniversary of the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education decision against segregation in public schools.
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Demonstrators at a rallying point for the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, May 17, 1957, Washington. D.C., held in support of desegregation.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in front of the Lincoln Memorial before 25,000 people at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, May 1957 to mark the third anniversary of the landmark supreme court decision, Brown v. the Board of Education, which outlawed segregation in public schools. Among his landmark early addresses, King’s speech that day was known as “Give Us the Ballot.”
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Civil rights activists marched at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, May 1957 at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.
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A U.S. Marine held an injured Vietnamese child while running under fire, November 1965.
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Weary American Marines of 7th Regiment slept following intense fighting in the area around Cape Batangan during the Vietnam War, November 1965. Marines fought from dawn until dark in temperatures that reached 130 degrees before they secured the beachhead.
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The eyes and mouth of a Vietcong prisoner were taped by U.S. Marines. This picture ran on the cover of LIFE’s Nov. 26, 1965 issue with the cover line, “The Blunt Reality of War.”
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Former teamster and labor leader Arthur L. Morgan testified against Jimmy Hoffa and others during labor racketeering hearings before a Senate Select Committee, August 1958.
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A man lovingly combed his girlfriend’s hair; the photo was part of an essay entitled “The Italian Man,” 1963.
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Actress Elke Sommer attended the Cannes Film Festival amid a sea of photographers, May 1962.
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Israeli children of the Habad sect played with a horse and cart at a farm May 1960.
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Israelis danced at the “Last Chance Cafe”, a night club in Beersheba, Israel, May 1960.
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Miriam Stecher, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, showed her prisoner number in reaction to news of the arrest of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi S.S. Colonel, one of chief architects of the holocaust, May 1960.
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An Israeli man rested beside a newly planted tree, 1965.
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This image of an Israeli military vehicle as it headed towards Gaza, then part of Egypt, was one of the last 23 frames taken by Paul Schutzer. He was killed on June 5, 1967, the first day of the Arab-Israeli Six Day War, when the half-track personnel carrier he was riding in took a direct hit from an Egyptian antitank shell.
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The last frame on the roll of film found in Schutzer’s camera. He was killed by a 57mm Egyptian shell which hit the half-track personnel carrier he was riding in, June 5, 1967, the first day of the Arab-Israeli Six Day War.
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