that published photographs from that year when I was 19 years old, I have picked 5 that I remember so well, a portrait of the crew of NASA's Apollo 11 mission to the
moon; from left, the astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and Neil
Armstrong, as they pose on a model of the moon in 1969, Ralph Morse / The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty
Charles Manson is escorted to his arraignment on
conspiracy-murder charges in connection with the Sharon Tate murder case on
December 11, 1969, in Los Angeles, California, AP
original caption from April 9, 1969: "Off the ground for
the very first time is the British-built prototype of the Anglo-French
supersonic airliner 'Concorde 002' The liner, piloted by test pilot Brian
Trubshaw, made her maiden flight to the nearby Fairford, spending some 21
minutes in the air." Bettmann / Getty
a South Vietnamese woman mourns over the body of her husband,
found with 47 others in a mass grave near Hue, in April of 1969, Horst Faas / AP
police wearing gas masks fire cartridges of tear gas in front
of a bookmaker's shop during the Ulster riots in Londonderry, Northern Ireland,
on August 12, 1969. Hulton Archive / Getty, there are so many more images here of 1969, this article brought back so many memories, some of the photographs in the article are pleasant, and many I would choose to forget, photograph credits after each picture.
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