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50 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1969 (50 photos)

A half-century ago, humans first set foot on the moon, hundreds of thousands of young people gathered in New York’s Catskill Mountains for a music festival that became a cultural milestone, and the war in Vietnam dragged on while protest and resistance grew. It was the year that Sesame Street premiered on Public TV, British troops were first sent into Northern Ireland, the Manson Family murders took place, that Richard Nixon became the 37th President of the United States, and much more.

A portrait of the crew of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon, from left, 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)
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/02/1969-photos-looking-back-50-years/582706/