“Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we weren’t able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.” — Richie Havens
“By and large, the past two generations have made such a colossal mess of the world that they have to step down and let us take over.” — Pete Townshend
“Beautiful view. Magnificent desolation.” — Buzz Aldrin’s first words from the surface of the moon
“He say I know you, you know me / One thing I can tell you is / You got to be free / Come together, right now / Over me” — Lyrics to “Come Together” by The Beatles
“I don’t know how anyone lived through it.” — Hurricane Camille survivor Carrolyn Denning, in 2004
“Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.” — President Richard Nixon in his address to the nation on the war in Vietnam Nov. 3, 1969
“The last miracle I did was the 1969 Mets. Before that, I think you have to go back to the Red Sea. That was — that was a beauty.” — God (George Burns) in 1977’s “Oh, God!”
“It was terrible. They were slaughtering villagers like so many sheep.” — Sgt. Larry La Croix, June 1968
“I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” — Neil Armstrong on looking back at the Earth from the Moon in July 1969
“I don’t like people explaining albums. The only way you can explain it is to hear it. You can’t really use words about music, otherwise we’d do a talking album. The album is the explanation, and it’s up to you to make sure what you want of it.” —Paul McCartney
“In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol — it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.” — George Best
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.” — Maya Angelou, from “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
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On May 18, 1969, Apollo 10 launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The mission encompassed all aspects of an actual crewed lunar landing, except the landing. It was the first flight of a complete, crewed Apollo spacecraft to operate in lunar orbit.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson and then-current Vice President Spiro Agnew were among the spectators at the launch of Apollo 11, which lifted off from Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 9:32 am EDT on July 16, 1969. The crew, the first of the Apollo missions to land on the moon, safely returned to Earth on July 24, 1969.
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The opening ceremony at Woodstock Aug. 15, 1969, was led by Sri Swami Satchidananda.
Aug. 17, 1969, at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
This monument marks the site of the original 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair site in Bethel, New York.
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Buzz Aldrin removes the passive seismometer from a compartment in the SEQ bay of the Apollo 11 Lunar Lander July 21, 1969.
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A photograph of the Stonewall Inn, famed and widely recognized after the events of June 28, 1969, which would change the public conception of LGBT people in the United States.
Demonstration, with Gay Liberation Front Banner, circa 1972.
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Workmen stand on the edge of the Rt. 626 bridge over the Tye River in Norwood, Virginia, washed away by Hurricane Camille.
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Abbie Hoffman visiting the University of Oklahoma to protest the Vietnam War.
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A U.S. Army photographer and assistant climb through the devastated landscape on Vietnam’s Dong Ap Bia after the battle of Hamburger Hill in May 1969.
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A 1969 Vietnam war demonstration at Tulane University in New Orleans.
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New Yorkers celebrate the Mets’ World Series win with a ticker-tape parade Oct. 20, 1969.
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An autographed baseball card featuring Jerry Koosman of the New York Mets.
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South Vietnamese women and children in My Lai before being killed in the massacre March 16, 1968. According to court testimony, they were killed seconds after the photo was taken.
A soldier burns a dwelling in this photo from the 1970 Report of Army review into the My Lai incident.
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Inside the Launch Control Center, personnel watch as the Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 11 astronauts lifts off the launch pad on July 16, 1969.
On July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong leads astronauts Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. from the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building to the transfer van for the 8-mile trip to Pad 39A.
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The iconic image of The Beatles on their “Abbey Road” album cover.
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1969 Ford Mustang
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Leonard Nimoy (Spock), William Shatner 9Kirk) and DeForest Kelley (McCoy) from the television program "Star Trek," Jan. 8, 1969.
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1969 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am Polar White
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“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969)