LIFE magazine dated June 1968
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LIFE magazine dated June 1968
LIFE Magazine, Vol. 64, No. 24 dated June 14, 1968, that commemorates the life of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. 112 pagesCover shows a full-color photograph of Senator Kennedy running away from the viewer through the shallow water along a beach with the family dog, Freckles, running behind him. In the lower right corner, the date of publication and cost of the magazine (35 cents) are printed in white. The cover story is titled "Kennedy Family's Tragic Fate" and includes photographs of the Kennedy family over the years as well as images from significant moments in Senator Kennedy's life. This image is not available online larger than a thumbnail to protect the copyright of its creator(s). For a more detailed examination of this item, please schedule an appointment in the Museum’s Reading Room.
LIFE magazine dated June 1968
06/14/1968
Paper, Metal
13 13/16 × 10 1/2 × 1/4 in. (35.1 × 26.7 × 0.6 cm)
Nance Family Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2003.025.0020
A brief editorial that opened this issue of Life discussed the violence of the era. It began: "How many times must we live through these throat-paralyzing sequences of days of gunplay, grief and muffled drums? The nation in less than six years has watched the violent deaths of two Kennedys and a King." Describing what it called "our age of comfort and violence," this editorial is representative of the frustration and unrest so often associated with 1968, considered by most who lived through it one of the darkest years in modern American history. For many, the deaths of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy bookended an overall tragic half-decade that began with the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
LIFE magazine dated June 1968
LIFE Magazine, Vol. 64, No. 24 dated June 14, 1968, that commemorates the life of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. 112 pagesCover shows a full-color photograph of Senator Kennedy running away from the viewer through the shallow water along a beach with the family dog, Freckles, running behind him. In the lower right corner, the date of publication and cost of the magazine (35 cents) are printed in white. The cover story is titled "Kennedy Family's Tragic Fate" and includes photographs of the Kennedy family over the years as well as images from significant moments in Senator Kennedy's life. This image is not available online larger than a thumbnail to protect the copyright of its creator(s). For a more detailed examination of this item, please schedule an appointment in the Museum’s Reading Room.
LIFE magazine dated June 1968
06/14/1968
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LIFE Magazine
Ambassador Hotel
Chicago
Paper, Metal
13 13/16 × 10 1/2 × 1/4 in. (35.1 × 26.7 × 0.6 cm)
Nance Family Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2003.025.0020
A brief editorial that opened this issue of Life discussed the violence of the era. It began: "How many times must we live through these throat-paralyzing sequences of days of gunplay, grief and muffled drums? The nation in less than six years has watched the violent deaths of two Kennedys and a King." Describing what it called "our age of comfort and violence," this editorial is representative of the frustration and unrest so often associated with 1968, considered by most who lived through it one of the darkest years in modern American history. For many, the deaths of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy bookended an overall tragic half-decade that began with the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. - Stephen Fagin, Curator
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