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Hundreds of thousands of Americans came to Florida in July, 1969 - to watch the launch of Apollo XI - the first mission to land on the Moon
John F Kennedy inspired the Apollo program - to go to the Moon... and visited Salt Lake City in September 1963
The launch contrail of the last Space Shuttle 2011
President Lyndon Johnson signing a bill: 1968
the Oval Office
Firefighters at work following a market fire in Saigon, Vietnam 1971
A US Army helicopter delivering supplies to Khe Sahn Vietnam 1971
A young US soldier with a letter from home Lang Vei Vietnam 1971
A US spotter plane over An Loc, during the Easter Offesive 1972
A group of Vietnamese children, mistakenly burned by a napalm bomb (the oldest girl was to become famous in Nick Ut's "napalm girl" photo Trang Bang Vietnam 1972
Caring for an elderly woman among the Bengali refugees, in a West Bengal camp near Calcutta 1971
Former Presidential counsel John Dean being sworn in at the Watergate Hearings
1973
Following the coup d'Etat against President Allende the Chilean Army burns "suspicious" books Santiago 1973
Coup leader - Army General Augusto Pinochet Santiago 1973
Suspects rounded up for detention, the National Stadium, Santiago 1973
A Chilean cemetary during the days after the Coup d'Etat 1973
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with President Richard Nixon 1973
Two village children in the Niger bush, where drought created terrible living conditions in the sub-Sahara
Leaving NY for the last time, the SS France passes by the newly opened World Trade Center towers 1974
The Resignation of President Richard Nixon 1974
Yassir Arafat speaks at the United Nations General Assembly 1974
Reggae star Bob Marley, at his Tuff Gong/Kingston home, Jamaica 1976
Anti Shah demonstrators face down the Army, in ongoing street demonstrations Tehran 1978
Anti Shah demonstrators try restraining a soldier during a large demonstration 1978
The day before Aystollah Khomeini's return to Iran after decades of exile, members of the Army shot and killed a demonstrator, and his friends showed off his blood on their hands, showing that another martyr had fallen 1979
Ayatollah Khomeini at his Refa School office in Tehran, after returning from exile 1979
Gathered by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin sign the Camp David accords at the White House 1979
Anti-Shah demonstrations in Tehran would often number in the hundreds of thousands 1979
Fleeing the Killing Fields of Cambodia following the bloody take over by the Khmer Rouge, refugees streamed into neighboring Thailand 1979
Following 444 days of captivity, the returned American Hostages have a ticker tape parade in New York 1981
In her last moments as an unmarried girl, Diana Spencer climbs the steps of St Pauls to her wedding with Prince Charles 1981
In the days before Christmas 1981, Polish citizens gather to silently protest the arrival of Martial Law, and quashing of Solidarity
A group of 82nd Airborne troopers on break in Grenada when soldiers were sent in to save the Med students 1983
Famed American long distance runner Mary Decker lays in agony beside the track infield, after her collision with Zola Budd LA Olympics 1984
He came for 4 Golds and he got them: Carl Lewis running the 100m at the LA 1984 Summer Games
Drought and Famine struck Ethiopia 1984
A young boy goes for the last drop of water in the Korem Refugee Camp, Ethiopia 1984
Even in a wretched refugee camp, a mother's love is present. Ethiopia 1984
The first Summit of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev: Geneva 1985
In November of 1989 the Berlin Wall opened up, and eventually reunited East and West Germany
East meets West: The Berlin Wall 1989
President George H W Bush at the Whtie House 1990
Gold Medal dinver Fu Minh Xia at the Barcelona Games 1992
Playing the sax at one of his Inaugural Balls Bill Clinton 1993
Cuban fishermen figure out where theres a will, theres a way: Fishing from inner tubes, Havana Harbor
The 50th Anniversary of the D-Day landings: Bob Williams, had jumped into Ste Mere Eglise in 1944, and jumped again in 1994
Pole vault record holder Lawrence Johnson goes over the bar: Penn Relays 1996
On the road, but always in touch: Bill Gates in India 1992
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky sips a cosmo at Mortons/DC following the explosive news of her affiar with Bill Clinton 1998
Bill Clinton walks to Marine 1, with Hillary, Chelsea and Buddy. 1998
U S Secret Service officers in charge of President George W Bush's trip to New York after 9/11 2001
The first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: Wall Street - New York 2002
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, entire neighborhoods were inundated with walls of sand and dirt 2006
The first resident to return to New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward: Herb Gettridge at home 2006
Hnororing the 911 attacks, President George W Bush at Arlington National Cemetary 2005
Aloft, and going up, a Gymnast at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
Senator Barack Obama, on his campaign plane, in his quest for the Presidency 2008
An unmistakeable sign of the January 6 attacks: a smashed window on a door at the US Capitol Rotunda 2021
President Donald Trump takes short route to Marine 1 on the White House South Lawn, just outside the Oval Office
January 20, 2021 Joe Biden takes the Oath of Office
A large format photograph of the contrail of the Space Shuttle 2011
Olympics in the time of Covid: Tokyo Equestrian, with virtually no spectators in a new Equestrian Stadium 2021
Omaha Beach: Where the first troops of D-Day landed on June 6, 1944
1994
Visiting American veterans sitting on the sands of Utah Beach, 40 years after D_Day
In 1974, at the 30th anniversary of D-Day, an American vet shares a picture of himself as a young man, with a French woman, at a lunch offered by a French village to thank the troops 1974.
Remnants of the D-Day landings 1994
Former soldier Harry Parley holds a picture of himself as a young soldier 2004
An American veteran brings a scrapbook of pictures he shot in 1944, to a family living in a farmhouse where he had taken refuge 40 years before
Omaha Beach
American veteran Harry Parley
2004
John robinson, who flew B-26 Marauders in support of the D-Day landings in 1944
2004
Now cracked and falling down, this was a launch sight for German V-1 rockets, aimed at England the last year of WW2 1994
Dr Harold Baumgarten, wounded 3 times on Omaha Beach the morning of D-Day
2004
A gun emplacement at Pointe du Hoc, where US Rangers scaled the cliffs 1994
Elbert Legg, who worked in the Graves Registration section of the Army. Their job was to take care of the Dead. 2004
The US Omaha Beach Cemetary 2004
A US Veteran acknowledges the location of a comrade
1984
A US veteran at the American Cemetary near Omaha Beach
1989
A young couple wanders along Omaha Beach at H hour, early in the morning of June 6 2019 the 75th Anniversary of D-Day
A pair of veterans embrace on Omaha Beach D+75 years
2019
American veteran Leo Jereb touches the waters of Utah Beach fifty years after D-Day
1994
Thousands of older athletes are taking advantage of the new competitions being arranged for Seniors 2017
Seventy-plus runners leave the starting line for the 100m
2017
Race Walking is a big event at the Huntsman World Senior Games in Utah each autumn 2019
A sprinter readies for the 200m: New Jersey Senior Games 2019
Women compete in all the sports: Shot put National Senior Games 2019
Throwing a Javelin
National Senior Games 2019
Pickleball is the new, hot sport: National Senior Games 2017
Each September more than 600 Senior Softball teams gather in Las Vegas for the biggest softball tourney in the country 2018
Its all elbows in the Women's 80+ basketball National Senior Games 2017
You're never too old to shoot: National Senior Games 2017
A very happy group of women volleyballers Huntsman Senior Games 2019
He's 82 but swims almost every day in San Francisco Bay, and often to Alcatraz
2018
