Images from prominent events of 2024 in the US.
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You think 2024 has been packed with a ceaseless and exhausting stream of consequential events? So did Americans in 1940, 1968 and 1973.
Stanley Kubrick’s science fiction masterpiece was released in 1968.
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If you haven’t seen Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi classic, then it’s likely you will have seen other films influenced by it.
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew on Aug. 8, 1973 at a Washington news conference.
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When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.
William Sloane Coffin Jr., followed by his sister, arrives at federal building in Boston on May 20, 1968.
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The anti-Vietnam War efforts of Yale University chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. and other church leaders alienated many Protestant Americans – with lasting repercussions.