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DimensionsOverall: 7 x 8 5/8 in. (17.8 x 21.9 cm)
Accession Number 2024.291
Classificationsphotograph
New Member of the Family: Air Force Major Norman A. Daniel, a former POW, meets the newest member of his family “Bootsie” after his return home in Greensboro, North Carolina, March 14, 1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Image Not Available for And Queenie Makes Three: Army Specialist Fourth Keith Albert embraces his parents catching his dog, Queenie, in a squeeze play as the former POW was welcomed to his home near Thibodaux, Louisiana Tuesday afternoon. Albert, who had been a prisoner for three years, was greeted by a band and a crowd of 200 after he was released by an Army hospital at San Antonio, Texas, February 27, 1973
And Queenie Makes Three: Army Specialist Fourth Keith Albert embraces his parents catching his dog, Queenie, in a squeeze play as the former POW was welcomed to his home near Thibodaux, Louisiana Tuesday afternoon. Albert, who had been a prisoner for three years, was greeted by a band and a crowd of 200 after he was released by an Army hospital at San Antonio, Texas, February 27, 1973
1973
Image Not Available for A Big Welcome: A American POW, left, gets a warm welcome form a member of the prisoner recovery team during the release ceremony for 108 POWs at Hanoi’s Gia Lam airport, Wednesday. The POWs were in Clark Air Base, Philippines, Thursday, waiting their flights home, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 15, 1973
A Big Welcome: A American POW, left, gets a warm welcome form a member of the prisoner recovery team during the release ceremony for 108 POWs at Hanoi’s Gia Lam airport, Wednesday. The POWs were in Clark Air Base, Philippines, Thursday, waiting their flights home, Hanoi, Vietnam, March 15, 1973
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Refuse To Talk: Four American prisoners of war (hatless) return to a detention compound in Hanoi after they refused an invitation to be interviewed by members of the Joint Military Commission, March 1973
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Reverend Ralph Abernathy and members of his Poor People's Campaign, who sought unsuccessfully to speak with Agriculture Secretary Hardin at the Agriculture Department spoke to an "empty chair" (which they brought with them and placed on the sidewalk outside the Department) when the Cabinet member was not available. Here, after the "conference," Abernathy and members of group file past the empty chair to "shake hands" with the absent Secretary, Washington D.C., May 14, 1969
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1969
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
White House Introduction: President Eisenhower reaches across George M. Johnson, new member of the Civil Rights Commission, to shake hands with Johnson's wife at the end of a ceremony swearing him into the post. Johnson, who holds his commission, is the former dean of the Howard University School of Law, Washington D.C., June 9, 1959
1959
Image Not Available for Going Home From School: Schoolchildren who attend an outdoor school at a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam go home from school on a road lined with South Vietnamese government flags. Their former school and the rest of the village’s buildings were destroyed after the villagers fled from fighting during the 1972 North Vietnamese offensive, September 23, 1973
Going Home From School: Schoolchildren who attend an outdoor school at a village near Quang Tri in northern South Vietnam go home from school on a road lined with South Vietnamese government flags. Their former school and the rest of the village’s buildings were destroyed after the villagers fled from fighting during the 1972 North Vietnamese offensive, September 23, 1973
1973
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Putting the Commission in Business: President Johnson today signs an executive order spelling out the authority of his special Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Flanking him are Governor Otto Kerner, left, of Illinois, the chairman of the group, and Mayor John Lindsay of New York, vice chairman. Behind are some of the commission members. From left: Representative William McCulloch, Republican-Ohio; Senator Fred Harris, Democrat-Oklahoma; Vice President Humphrey; Katherine Graham Peden, Kentucky commerce commissioner; Police Chief Herbert Jenkins of Atlanta, Georgia; and Senator Edward Brooke, Republican-Massachusetts, July 29, 1967
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1967
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Handy Helpers: Members of the 1st Air Cavalry Division pass a child from hand to hand across a rain swollen stream near Xuan Que as they helped South Vietnamese refugees move to a resettlement camp from their village last week. The villagers volunteered to leave the area which had become a battleground between U.S. and North Vietnamese soldiers. The village was destroyed after the villagers left to deny sanctuary to the enemy, January 7, 1968
1968
Image Not Available for Meo Guerrilla and Son: This Meo guerrilla and his son in the village of Tin Bong which is located in a 5, 000-foot Valley in Laos. Meo guerrillas have fought the pathet Lao and North Vietnamese since 1955, March 1, 1971
Meo Guerrilla and Son: This Meo guerrilla and his son in the village of Tin Bong which is located in a 5, 000-foot Valley in Laos. Meo guerrillas have fought the pathet Lao and North Vietnamese since 1955, March 1, 1971
1971
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Blast Scatters Dead and Wounded: injured Vietnamese receive aid as they lie on the street after a bomb explosion outside the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam, March 30, 1965. Smoke rises from wreckage in background. At least two Americans and several Vietnamese were killed in the bombing. Vietnamese father (left) searched for his child
1965
Image Not Available for Under Police Surveillance: Members of the American Nazi Party carry out their own demonstration today under close police surveillance. The swastika-wearing marchers showed up at the White House about the time Negro demonstrators were scheduled to arrive. Police hustled off the Nazis to the next block up Pennsylvania Avenue where they were permitted to march in a tight circle, June 14, 1963
Under Police Surveillance: Members of the American Nazi Party carry out their own demonstration today under close police surveillance. The swastika-wearing marchers showed up at the White House about the time Negro demonstrators were scheduled to arrive. Police hustled off the Nazis to the next block up Pennsylvania Avenue where they were permitted to march in a tight circle, June 14, 1963
Unknown Associated Press photographer
1963
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
A group of prominent Negroes tried unsuccessfully to meet with President Nixon at the White House to discuss black capitalism. Members of the group talk with reporters outside the White House. They are left to right: Floyd McKissick (with fur hat); Jackie Robinson, former baseball player, (center); and Dr. Walter Cooper, Rochester, New York, January 25, 1969
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1969