BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Exhibit: One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey:

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Description of Pictures: One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey
June 29, 2018 – May 19, 2019
As part of a series of installations celebrating its golden anniversary, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery presents One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey, a one-room exhibition that looks back at an extraordinarily important and memorable time in American history. The show relies on some thirty portraits to tell the story of 1968, the year when the Vietnam War reached a turning point, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, and television sets displayed everything from the Olympic Games to the first manned orbit of the moon. Memorably, it was also the year that the Portrait Gallery first opened its doors. The subjects featured in the exhibition continue to resonate in our collective memory. Representations of Martin Luther King Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon will share the walls with portraits of cultural figures such as Peggy Fleming, Arthur Ashe, Aretha Franklin, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Depictions of other significant personalities, notably the Apollo 8 astronauts, will round out the exhibition. The major artists who will be represented include Roy Lichtenstein, Irving Penn, George Tames, David Levine, Robert Vickrey, and Louis Glanzman. Several original artworks that made the cover of Time magazine will be displayed. This exhibition is curated by Portrait Gallery Historian, James Barber.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. 1YR68_180628_001.JPG: Sidney Poitier: For Love of Ivy Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier (born 1927) was once described as "the Martin Luther King of the movies." In the turbulent 1960s, he "embodied the black image for the dawning Age of Integration," wrote his biographer. In his life, both on and off the screen, he projected "the perfect man" -- intelligent, dignified, adept, and sensitive. When the film For Love of Ivy opened in the summer of 1968, Poitier was arguably Hollywood's leading actor, having already starred in To Sir, with Love; In the Heat of the Night; and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, which were all released in 1967. Robert M. Peak, 1968
2. 1YR68_180628_008.JPG: Rock Groups of San Francisco, 1967 At the height of the counterculture revolution of the mid-sixties, San Francisco was the epicenter of music, psychedelic drugs, and free love. Photographer Irving Penn was interested in documenting this phenomenon and was assigned by Look magazine to photograph two of the leading rock bands of the era -- Janis Joplin (far left) with Big Brother and the Holding Company, and Jerry Garcia (top right) with the Grateful Dead. Joplin was described as "the most staggering leading woman in rock," while Garcia -- the lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the Grateful Dead -- was best known for his extended guitar improvisations. Joplin died of a drug over- dose in 1970, while Garcia and the Grateful Dead conducted an "endless tour" until his death in 1995. Irving Penn (1917–2009), 1967 (printed 1974)
3. 1YR68_180628_015.JPG: Jimi Hendrix, 1942-1970 Rock icon Jimi Hendrix taught himself to play guitar by listening to the records of noted blues guitarists, such as Muddy Waters. In 1964, after several years with a number of backup bands, he drifted to New York City where his performances eventually attracted the attention of a British pop artist who persuaded him to try his fortunes in England. There, he formed a trio called the Jimi Hendrix Experience, which thanks to Hendrix's outrageous showmanship and innovative guitar playing, quickly became a sensation throughout Europe. When he returned to the United States in 1968, the response was much the same, and both Rolling Stone and Billboard maga- zines named him artist of the year. Unidentified artist, date unknown
4. 1YR68_180628_025.JPG: Hippies Throughout the 1960s, Time magazine explored a variety of social trends, including the hippie phenomenon. In a 1967 cover story, the magazine reported, "The hippies have emerged on the U.S. scene in about 18 months as a wholly new subculture, a bizarre permutation of the middle-class American ethos from which it evolved." Hippies were mostly in their late teens and early twenties, often well-educated, and preached "altruism and mysticism, honesty, joy, and non-violence." They dressed unconventionally, in bright colors, often adorned in beads and bangles. Many tended to live together in communes, which began springing up throughout the country, especially in San Francisco, the heartland of hippiedom. They tripped on music that was "psychedelic," a new word they popularized, which the dictionary defines as "a mental state of great calm" enhanced by the "influence of hallucinogenic drugs." The Group Image, 1967
5. 1YR68_180628_031.JPG: Joan Didion, born 1934 Joan Didion's work encapsulates the anxieties of modern life in an instantly recognizable style. She published her first novel in 1963, but it was her collection of nonfiction essays Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) that brought her widespread public and critical attention. The title of the book, from William Butler Yeats's (1865–1939) poem "The Second Coming," denotes the Irish poet's tone of weary fatalism about contemporary society. A New York Times book review stated, "The title piece is about Haight-Ashbury [in San Francisco], and conveys the complexity and the ‘atomization' of the hippie scene not as the latest fashionable trend, but as a serious advanced stage of society in which things are truly ‘falling apart' as in Yeats's poem." Didion, however, was not immune to the pleasures of California life; she posed here with her Corvette Stingray, an allusion to her writing about the joys of fast driving. Julian Wasser, 1970
6. 1YR68_180628_037.JPG: Arthur Ashe, 1943-1993 "What I like best about myself is my demeanor. I'm seldom ruffled," said Arthur Ashe following his five- set triumph in the men's final of the 1968 U.S. Open. Ashe's composure lay at the heart of his success on the tennis court and in the political arena. The first African American to win the U.S. Open men's singles title and a champion later at Wimbledon, Ashe expressed concern for fairness and human dignity throughout his life. Whether he was protesting apartheid in South Africa, serving as the chairman of the American Heart Association, or working to defeat AIDS, the disease he contracted through a blood transfusion and which eventually killed him, Ashe spoke out with an eloquence that matched his temperament on the court. This photograph shows him serving during the 1968 U.S. Open final. Walter Kelleher, 1968
7. 1YR68_180628_043.JPG: Denny McLain, born 1944 When this likeness of the Detroit Tiger pitcher Denny McLain ran on the cover of Time magazine in September 1968, he was the biggest story in base- ball. The season had been marked by exceptionally good pitching, but McLain was out hurling them all. If Time had delayed its feature on him another week, it could have reported that he was now the first pitcher since 1934 to win thirty games or more in one season. It was a feat that led to yet another rarity: having led the Tigers to their first World Series championship in over two decades. McLain not only walked off with that year's Cy Young Award in pitching, he also claimed the Most Valuable Player Award, generally reserved for non-pitchers. Robert Heindel, 1968 Time cover, September 13, 1968
8. 1YR68_180628_050.JPG: Tommie Smith, born 1944 John Carlos, born 1945 Tommie Smith won gold in the 200-meter sprint at the 1968 Olympic Summer Games in Mexico City, but he and John Carlos, who won bronze in the event, are best known for their gesture of protest during the medal ceremony. As the Star Spangled Banner played and two American flags were raised, Smith and Carlos stood on the victory platform with their black-gloved fists lifted in the air and their heads bowed down. Smith was a multiple national and world record holder in the 200 meters, and like Carlos and other African American athletes, he had a growing political consciousness, especially on issues of race. While his career as an athlete eventually faded, he went on to become a teacher and a track coach and has continued to be involved in social causes. Unidentified artist, 1968
9. 1YR68_180628_057.JPG: Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970 This cover portrait appeared on the eve of the 1962 championship game, in which the defending NFL champion Packers successfully defended their title against the New York Giants. Football coach Vince Lombardi is often remembered for having ruled his teams largely "through fear," and according to one first-hand account, he treated all of his players -- veteran stars as well as unproven rookies -- "like dogs." Nevertheless, even victims of his harsh ways could not help but love him for his results. Between 1959, when he became head coach of the Green Bay Packers, and his retirement from that post after winning the Super Bowl in January 1968, Lombardi shaped his team into the most formidable force in professional football. In the process, he laid claim to five NFL champion- ships and two Super Bowl titles. Boris Chaliapin, 1862 Time cover, December 21, 1962
10. 1YR68_180628_061.JPG: Shirley Chisholm, 1924-2005 Born Brooklyn, New York Shirley Chisholm began her professional career as a teacher in New York City. But the racial and political acuity that her father fostered in her soon piqued her interest in politics. She served in the state's General Assembly from 1964 to 1968, and in the latter year became the first black woman elected to Congress. Having won New York's Twelfth District congressional seat, she became a leading voice for women's rights and civil rights, and a spokesperson against the Vietnam War. She was also a cofounder of the National Organization for Women. In 1972, Chisholm sought the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency. Although her bid was unsuccessful, her candidacy enabled her to raise issues of importance to African Americans and women and to forge the way for others. "The door is not open yet," she said, "but it is ajar." Richard Avedon, 1976
11. 1YR68_180628_065.JPG: George C. Wallace, 1919-1998 George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama, entered the 1968 presidential race as a long shot. He ran as an independent whose only chance of success was to send the election into the House of Representatives. Wallace campaigned on the pledge of "law and order," a theme many Americans welcomed amidst the national mood of riotous dissention and protest. Yet he avoided all discussion of race or civil rights, talking instead about "defending the integrity of neighborhoods and neighborhood schools." This was code for keeping segregation in place, in spite of progressive trends and laws to uproot it. In the election, Wallace trailed Republican Richard Nixon and Democrat Hubert Humphrey by wide margins. Nevertheless, he was not dissuaded from campaigning for the Democratic nomination in 1972 and 1976. Jerome Liebing, 1968
12. 1YR68_180628_071.JPG: The Democratic Ticket While the media frenzy of the 1968 Democratic National Convention centered foremost around Hubert Humphrey's nomination to serve as the party's presidential candidate, with the lesser-known senator Edmund Muskie as his running mate, it also focused on the turbulent demonstrations that enveloped the convention venue. Chicago's mayor Richard J. Daley, "the last of America's big-city bosses," had prepared for the arrival of thousands of anti-war demonstrators by assembling a security detail of 23,000 police, national guardsmen, and federal troops to maintain order. What shocked television viewers worldwide was the "breakdown of police discipline" as "they flailed blindly," with billy clubs, "into the crowd of some 3,000 then ranged onto the sidewalks to attack onlookers." Daley, whose image is seen in the background of this cover, defended his city's response by noting that no one was killed. Louis S. Glanzman Time cover, September 6, 1968
13. 1YR68_180628_077.JPG: Richard M. Nixon, 1913-1994 The election of Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1968 marks one of the most noteworthy comebacks in American politics. Six years earlier, pundits had written him off as a has-been in the wake of his unsuccessful bid for the California governorship, which had come on top of his historically close loss to John F. Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election. Even Nixon himself had admitted publicly that he was through with politics. Yet that appraisal took into account neither the depth of his ambitions for high office nor his dogged determination. George Tames, a veteran news photographer for the New York Times, snapped this picture of Nixon giving a campaign speech. His wife, Pat Nixon (1912–1993), is shown seated behind him, listening attentively. George Tames, 1968
14. 1YR68_180628_082.JPG: Spiro Agnew, 1918-1996 Richard Nixon's selection of Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew to be the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate surprised most of the nation. As Time magazine noted in its cover story of September 20, 1968, "Agnew" was suddenly "becoming a household word." Nixon, however, had ample experience about the office of the vice presidency, having filled it for two terms under Dwight Eisenhower. He wanted a neutral candidate who had "some brains and enough strength of character that he wouldn't fold up on you." Moreover, he wanted a running mate who would not up-stage him. Agnew seemingly fit the bill. However, his overzealousness in labeling protesters and dissenters of every description as communists was worrisome even for Nixon, who had campaigned in much the same way for Eisenhower in 1952. Louis S. Glanzman, 1968 Time cover, September 20, 1968
15. 1YR68_180628_092.JPG: Apollo 8 Astronauts The year 1968 was marked by rioting in the nation's black ghettos and mounting protests over the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated, and there had been a Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. But as Time pointed out in its year-end summary, 1968 closed with an event that was bound to overshadow these other happenings. In late December, three astronauts (left to right) -- William Anders (born 1933), Frank Borman (born 1928), and James Lovell (born 1928) -- had embarked on the first successful human orbit of the moon, and on Christmas Eve, the trio reported live from their Apollo 8 spacecraft. The full implication of this achievement could not yet be understood. Nevertheless, Time could not help but conclude that of all the people who had made news in those past twelve months, Anders, Borman, and Lovell were the right choice for 1968's "Men of the Year." Hector Garrido (born 1927) Time cover, January 3, 1969
16. 1YR68_180628_101.JPG: President Johnson as King Lear Named Time's 1964 "Man of the Year" because of his remarkable presidential successes, Lyndon Johnson (1908–1973) received that distinction again in 1967 for his perceived failures. Violently scorned for escalating the Vietnam War, chastised by African Americans for moving too slowly on civil rights, and hounded in Congress for the costliness of his ambitious domestic programs, Johnson had even been deserted by much of his own Democratic Party. By the first week of 1968, when this caricature appeared on Time's cover, his approval rating had plummeted from a peak of 80 percent to 38 percent. Artist David Levine (1926–2009) took his inspira- tion from Shakespeare's play King Lear (c. 1606), which centers on a man who runs afoul of his children and his own good intentions. Fellow Democrats Senator Robert Kennedy (1925–1968) and Representative Wilbur Mills (1909–1992) belea- guered the president; only one member of Johnson's political "family" remained loyal: Vice President Hubert Humphrey (1911–1978). David Levine, 1967 Time cover, January 5, 1968
17. 1YR68_180628_107.JPG: President Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973 Lady Bird Johnson, 1912-2007 By March of 1968, Americans were seriously questioning the wisdom of further escalation in the Vietnam War. Seemingly, every week military casualties were reported to be in the hundreds, and protest marches had become common occurrences in cities and on college campuses. In a now historic address, on March 31, 1968, President Johnson shocked the nation with news that his administration would pursue a negotiated peace with the North Vietnamese and that he would not be a candidate for reelection. This photograph shows the president and first lady sitting in the Oval Office while watching a taped replay of the speech. Pierre de Bausset, 1968
18. 1YR68_180628_111.JPG: Bring the Troops Home Now The anti-Vietnam War movement became a defining marker of youth culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s as increasing numbers of students realized the strength of their collective voice. Posters were a frequently used tool of protest, displayed on college campuses and held aloft in marches and demonstrations. The Student Mobilization Committee, a national organization that encouraged the formation of campus committees to end the war, issued the poster Bring the Troops Home Now. The phrase was also a slogan for anti-war organizations and rallies, as well as the title of a newsletter that sought to direct the movement toward troop reduction. The poster's designer, Nancy Coner, summoned many potent signals of the era, including rock-poster lettering, a pinwheel, helmeted and slain troops, riot police, a pontificating President Johnson, and placards with more anti-war slogans. Nancy Coner, c 1966-68
19. 1YR68_180628_119.JPG: William L. Calley, born 1943 My Lai is a hamlet in Vietnam and its name disturbs Americans to this day. On March 16, 1968, Lieutenant William Calley led a company of U. S. troops in a massacre of civilians numbering some 500 men, women, and children. Although Calley was court-martialed and convicted a year later of twenty counts of murder, his case became a cause c�l�bre and his guilt was disputed as Americans argued about whether his action was criminally atypical or part of the military's tolerance of terror against Vietnamese civilians. On this Time magazine cover, Calley is shown wearing an opaque mask that seems to represent the lack of transparency and divisiveness during the Vietnam War. Calley, viewed by many as a scapegoat, was sentenced to life in prison; but his sentence was later reduced to ten years, and President Richard Nixon pardoned him in 1974. Fred Burrell, 1969 Time cover, December 5, 1969
20. 1YR68_180628_124.JPG: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the "Poor People's Campaign" Calling it his "last, greatest dream," Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) declared his intention to launch a broad-based effort to secure economic justice for the nation's poor. During a press conference held on December 4, 1967, at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, King revealed initial plans for an extended campaign of mass civil disobedience in Washington, D.C., that would cross racial boundaries to bring together thousands of people living in poverty. "This will be no mere one-day march in Washington," he declared, "but a trek to the nation's capital by suffering and outraged citizens who will stay until some definite and positive action is taken to provide jobs and income for the poor." Led by King and sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the "Poor People's Campaign" was slated to begin on April 22, 1968, but was delayed after King traveled to Memphis, where he was slain by a gunman on April 4. George Tames, 1968
21. 1YR68_180628_128.JPG: Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968 Robert ("Bobby") Kennedy, running for the Democratic presidential nomination, was fatally shot by assassin Sirhan Sirhan on June 5, 1968, after winning the California primary. This tragically ended one of the most interesting political careers in modern American history and further draped the legacy of the Kennedy family in mourning. Coming only months after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Kennedy's killing plunged an already dismal year of violence and confronta- tion into further darkness. The younger brother of President John F. Kennedy, he had served as attorney general in the thirty-fifth president's cabinet (1961–63), after which he was elected senator from New York in 1964. He entered the 1968 presidential race in opposition to the Johnson administration's Vietnam War policies and as a progressive voice on urban and racial issues. This somber portrait, by artist Louis Glanzman, appeared on the cover of Time magazine following Kennedy's internment at Arlington Cemetery on June 8, 1968. Louis S. Glanzman, 1968 Time cover, June 14, 1968
22. 1YR68_180628_135.JPG: Resurrection City Resurrection City, located on fifteen acres of land beside the National Mall reflecting pool in Washington, DC, was the destination point for the "Poor People's Campaign" of 1968, which had been conceived by Martin Luther King, Jr., shortly before his assassination. For six weeks that spring, some three thousand poor and underprivileged individuals convened there and lived in hastily constructed shanties of plywood and canvas. They gathered to march, to protest, and to make known their plight of impoverishment. Meanwhile, they endured heavy rains and mud, overcrowding, and sporadic crime. Oliver F. Atkins
23. 1YR68_180628_143.JPG: This exhibition has been funded by the Guenther and Siewchin Yong Sommer Endowment Fund.
24. 1YR68_180628_146.JPG: Eldridge Cleaver, 1935-1998 Having grown up in poverty in the Watts section of Los Angeles, Eldridge Cleaver spent much of his early life serving time in jail for a number of offenses, including rape. By the mid-1960s, however, his gifts for articulating the grievances of African Americans had drawn him into the radical wing of the black civil rights movement. Soon he was a leading spokesperson for the militant Black Panthers, who advocated arming for self-defense against the white establishment. His most significant contribution to the cause was a collection of fiery essays Soul on Ice, which became one of the most widely read statements of black anger in America after it was published in 1968. That same year, an armed confrontation with police drove Cleaver into exile, and after his return to the United States in 1975, his outlook grew increasingly more conservative. Steven Shames, 1968
25. 1YR68_180628_154.JPG: Stokely Carmichael, 1941-1998 H. Rap Brown, born 1943 Frustrated by what they regarded as slow progress in the struggle for equality and angered by the repressive tactics employed by civil rights opponents, Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown emerged in the mid-1960s as leaders of an increasingly militant faction of activists who called for black autonomy rather than integration. Carmichael's experiences as a Freedom Rider in the 1961 campaign to desegregate interstate transportation in the South and his subsequent work as a field organizer with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) fueled his decision to abandon the long- favored tactic of passive resistance. Adopting "Black Power" as a rallying cry, Carmichael broke with SNCC and accepted a lead- ership role with the separatist Black Panther Party. SNCC veteran H. Rap Brown, whose claim that "violence is as American as cherry pie" signaled a radical schism within the civil rights movement, soon joined him. James E. Hinton, Jr., 1968 (printed 2001)
26. 1YR68_180628_163.JPG: Bobby Seale, born 1937 Together with Huey Newton, Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in Oakland, California, in the fall of 1966. Having previously worked together at a neighborhood anti-poverty center, the two broke with the NAACP to create a militant response to police brutality and to provide assistance programs to the city's poor African American residents. When Newton was arrested for the murder of a policeman the following year, the Black Panthers became the national icon of militant black nationalists who advocated armed resistance to white society. In this 1968 photograph, Seale speaks to an audience in Oakland that had gathered during Newton's trial. Given the fiery rhetoric of its leaders, in 1969 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was moved to describe the Panthers as the greatest threat to American national security. Stephen Shames, reproduction of 1968 photograph
27. 1YR68_180628_177.JPG: The Gun in America The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in the spring of 1968 unleashed a heated debate over America's passion for personal firearms and the ease with which anyone could procure a rifle or pistol. By late June, Time magazine was reporting on this debate in its cover story, which focused on, among other things, the mounting cry for new curbs on citizens' rights to bear firearms. The story caught people's attention, and the magazine received countless pieces of mail from readers. Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein created a vivid, riveting cover for the issue. He had long recognized the gun as an important element in American culture, and his image for Time was simply a variant of the pistol-gripping hand that he had produced on a felt banner several years earlier. Roy Lichtenstein, 1968 Time cover, June 21, 1968
28. 1YR68_180628_182.JPG: Helen Chavez, 1928-2016 Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968 Cesar Chavez, 1927-1993 On March 10, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy visited the small, grape-growing town of Delano, California, to attend an outdoor "Mass of Thanksgiving" for Cesar Chavez, president of the United Farm Workers movement. More than six thousand migrant workers attended in support of Chavez, who was ending a twenty-five-day fast for non-violence. The grape growers were becoming frustrated in their efforts to organize a union to improve wages and working conditions. Kennedy was there to show his support and to be their chief spokesperson back in Washington, DC. He is shown in this photograph sharing a piece of bread with Chavez whose wife, Helen Chavez, sits on Kennedy's right. Richard Darby, reproduction of 1968 photograph
29. 1YR68_180628_189.JPG: Barbra Streisand in "Funny Girl" Just twenty-two when she became a Broadway sensation in the hit musical Funny Girl (1964), Barbra Streisand (born 1942) has retained her luster for more than five decades as one of the entertainment industry's brightest stars. In 1968, she made her motion picture debut in the film adaptation of Funny Girl, winning an Academy Award for Best Actress. Since then, she has continued her on-screen career, performing in such films as Hello, Dolly (1969), The Way We Were (1973), A Star is Born (1976), The Prince of Tides (1991), and The Mirror with Two Faces (1996). 1968 (printed later)
30. 1YR68_180628_197.JPG: TV Guide Two television comedy shows, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and The Smothers Brothers, were "pop-culture phenomena's" in 1968. Both were cast and written to appeal to American boomers and the young-at-heart. Much of the comedy lampooned the establishment, especially the president and other government leaders. Censorship was a weekly vexation for the networks and show hosts alike. When Tom and Dick Smothers started spoofing the executives at CBS in 1969, their show was abruptly canceled. With high viewer ratings, both shows made the cover of TV Guide in 1968. Unidentified artists February 10, 1968: "The Smothers Brothers" September 21, 1968: "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In"
31. 1YR68_180628_210.JPG: Sports Illustrated In February 1968, figure skater Peggy Fleming enamored audiences with her performance at the Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble, France. The nineteen-year-old, who was the only American to capture gold at the games, uplifted both the country and the sport with her win. Seven years earlier, Fleming's coach had died in the plane crash that killed the entire U.S. world figure skating delegation. Her medal signaled a new beginning. This Sports Illustrated cover, created for the magazine's February 19, 1968, issue, shows Fleming skating gracefully and donning her signature chartreuse dress. John G. Zimmerman February 19, 1968: Peggy Fleming
32. 1YR68_180628_220.JPG: One Year 1968 An American Odyssey
33. 1YR68_180628_230.JPG: Earthrise Earthrise is perhaps the most iconic image of this historic year. Taken by William Anders, an astronaut on the Apollo 8 mission, the photograph documents the first successful manned orbit of the moon. Anders used a special Hasselblad camera to capture the ethereal moment on December 24, 1968, as he and his two crewmates, Frank Borman (born 1928), and James Lovell (born 1928), began their lunar orbits. That Christmas Eve, a record-number of people around the world watched or listened to a live broadcast of the astronauts reading passages from the Book of Genesis. In 1969, the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp featuring this image and the opening words of Genesis, "In the beginning God..." William Alison Anders
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