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Wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Jeremiah Purdie (center, with bandaged head) reaches toward a stricken comrade after a fierce firefight south of the DMZ, Vietnam, October 1966. history

Powerful Portraits of Vietnam: Larry Burrows’ ‘Reaching Out,’ 1966

David Kirby on his deathbed, Ohio, 1990. history

The Photo That Changed the Face of AIDS

Ali, Frazier and the Fight of the Century arts & entertainment

Ali, Frazier and the ‘Fight of the Century’

Gandhi and His Spinning Wheel: the Story Behind an Iconic Photo people

Gandhi and His Spinning Wheel: The Story Behind an Iconic Photo

LIFE magazine, April 26, 1937. animals

The Rooster vs. the Logo: A Truly Unique LIFE Cover

Quarterbacks of the NFL in 1961: (back, L-R) Milt Plum, Bobby Layne, Sam Etcheverry, Bill Wade, Bart Starr, Johnny Unitas, Norm Snead, Zeke Bratkowski; (front, L-R) Jim Ninowski, Fran Tarkenton, Don Meredith, John Brodie, Sonny Jurgensen, Y.A. Tittle. arts & entertainment

How to Take a Group Portrait of 14 NFL Quarterbacks on Their Day Off

history

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

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’

Albert Schweitzer supervises the building of a hospital in Gabon, West Africa, 1952. people

A Legendary Essay: Albert Schweitzer in Africa

Behind the Picture: The Liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945 history

Behind the Picture: The Liberation of Buchenwald, April 1945

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, Iowa, 1942 history

‘Take off the Silk, Put on the Khaki’: America’s First Women Soldiers, 1942

history

‘Spanish Village’: W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay

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