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Defense bonds and stamps mural in Grand Central Terminal before World War II, 1941:
Grand Central travelers watch John Glenn launched on dangerous mission to become first American in earth orbit, sixty years ago this year: #Hausner
Westclox Keeps America on Time, Grand Central:
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Presidents from 1969 to 1993, photographed in White House Blue Room before Nixon, Ford and Carter flew to Egypt for funeral of Anwar Sadat, October 1981: Image
At House Speaker Sam Rayburn's burial in Texas, November 1961, the Presidents from 1945 to 1969--Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Kennedy: #JFKL Image
Sam Rayburn's gravestone, Bonham, Texas, features an image of his House Speaker's gavel and his nickname "Mr. Sam": Image
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Stevenson, Judy Garland, JFK, LBJ, Sinatra, among others, at Beverly Hilton party banquet during Democratic convention, this week 1960: #Getty
Photographed through a window, JFK celebrates with RFK after winning nomination in Los Angeles, this week 1960: #AP
At joint meeting of Massachusetts and Texas delegates, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, JFK makes needling jokes about his opponent LBJ, who pretends to be amused, this week 1960:
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At age eighteen, Princess Elizabeth watching British parachutists before D-Day 1944: #IWM
Sixteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth [right] and her family with Eleanor Roosevelt, Buckingham Palace, 1942, during World War II: #Beaton
Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral Castle in Scotland with Prince Philip and President Eisenhower, Princess Anne and Prince Charles, 1959: #AP
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Ex-President Truman displays his taste in summer shoes at 1956 Democratic convention: #Getty
Summer street shoes from Harry Truman's collection, Independence, Missouri: #NPS
One of Harry Truman’s ties:
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Jacqueline Kennedy at funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta, this week 1968: #Getty Image
Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. King on day of the funeral, this week 1968: Image
Attendees at MLK’s funeral include Eugene McCarthy and Abigail, George Romney and Lenore, Richard Nixon, Ted Kennedy: Image
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Joint Base Andrews (formerly Andrews Air Force Base), photographed a few minutes ago. Anyone want to remind us of some of the history that has been made here?
Eisenhower welcomes Khrushchev for first US visit by a supreme Soviet leader, Andrews Air Force Base, 1959: #Getty
JFK and Jackie walk toward Air Force One, bound for Texas, at Andrews Air Force Base, 1963:
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Yes, everything that should be old history is painfully new again:
Back cover of my book on years of Cuban Missile Crisis (1991):
Here is speech draft written for JFK's use if he ordered US armed forces to bomb Cuba and USSR missile sites, incurring immediate danger of nuclear attack against United States by Kremlin, October 1962:
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Beatles performed on Ed Sullivan Show (CBS) tonight 1964:
"Ed Sullivan Show” (CBS) came from this theater, now home to “Late Night with Stephen Colbert”:
Beatles rehearse for Ed Sullivan Show of tonight 1964: #AP
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CBS News Special Report on sudden fatal fire on Cape Kennedy launchpad that had just killed three Apollo 1 crewmen, fifty-five years ago tonight—program anchored by Mike Wallace and Walter Cronkite:
LBJ’s letter to parents of Apollo 1’s Roger Chaffee, killed in Cape Kennedy launchpad fire fifty-five years ago tonight:
Apollo 1 catastrophe of fifty-five years ago tonight, reported next day by New York Times:
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Scene from “The Way We Were” (1973): Image
Outtakes from photo session for “Way We Were”: Image
@WilliamsCollege crew (on Lake Onota, Pittsfield, Mass.) is featured in opening scenes of “The Way We Were” (1973): Image
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Live from Oval Office, Cuban Missile Crisis revealed tonight 1962:
JFK’s Cuban Missile Crisis speech is viewed in Third Avenue bar, New York, with unintendedly ominous message above door, tonight 1962: #Getty
In private, JFK draws Soviet missile sites on map of Cuba during Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962:
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Protesters at Nixon’s July 4, 1970, “Honor America Day” celebration at Lincoln Memorial: #Getty
Marijuana “Smoke-In” was staged by demonstrators at Nixon’s “Honor America Day,” July 4, 1970: #Getty
On Nixon’s “Honor America Day,” July 4, 1970, protesters dragged a truck trailer into Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool: #Getty
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During Freedom Summer, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner went missing in Philadelphia, Mississippi, on this day in 1964. Amid threats of violence, these three heroes were trying to register Black Americans to vote. That day, they were shot to death.
Burned-out Ford station wagon used by voting rights heroes Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner was discovered three days after their disappearance today 1964: #Getty
Remember Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner and the price they paid on this day 1964 in Mississippi for voting rights:
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View from Robert Kennedy’s funeral train from New York City to DC, today 1968: #Fusco
Along route of Robert Kennedy’s funeral train, today 1968:
Another scene from Robert Kennedy’s funeral train, today 1968:
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American paratrooper drinks Hitler’s cognac on patio of his Alpine retreat at Berchtesgaden, spring 1945: #NARA
In Leipzig, when American soldiers arrive, high-ranking Nazi general has chosen to depart this life next to his beloved photograph of Hitler, this week 1945:
Photographer Lee Miller poses in Hitler's Munich bathtub as Allies are on verge of Victory in Europe, this month 1945: #Getty
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Both looking alert in the Oval Office, Harry Truman and his Vice President, Alben Barkley: #AP
Reelected to the Senate as a junior member after his Vice Presidency, Barkley told a Washington and Lee audience in 1956, "I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.” Then he collapsed and died of a heart attack.
Audio of ex-Vice President Alban Barkley’s last words and death, 1956:

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Bed like this, designed by Max Ernst, was donated by VP Nelson Rockefeller for main bedroom of Vice President’s Residence (although he refused to live there) at Naval Observatory in Washington DC — had seven-foot mink coverlet, tinted mirrors, trap doors:
Trap doors in Nelson Rockefeller’s Max Ernst bed for Vice President’s official bedroom were used for lamps, stereo controls, telephones. Or so Rockefeller claimed.
Nelson Rockefeller ordered that mirrors on the Max Ernst bed he purchased for Vice President’s bedroom be painted over in order not to offend some voters. Rockefeller insisted that he had haggled over price of the bed for weeks before buying it.
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Our daily #BS not in real time.
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The fine tuned with 3 star rating to #DefraudAmerica version
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So, again, we need to #DefundTheGovernment It is a #PhonyGovernment & #MediaCabal needs brought to justice. They are NOT ACTORS they are #Graphics including #Convirus #TaskForce exifinfo.org/detail/dUi5E3P…



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#PonderThis Why do people fall for pre-planted distractions? LOOK> How many that fall for this #BS are actually on the #Distraction promotion team?
"US CAPITOL LOCKDOWN" is a documented #WiresProject
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