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Pulling this decade’s photographs, sourced moments, and playable landmark from their institutions.
A VERY MOD TRANSMISSION
Mod graphics, garage records, space-age optimism, and psychedelic television.
Bright keys · space-age pop
Original instrumental · made for this time machineRewind passport · 1960s
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THE 1960s MEMORY LANES
15 memories on this channel
Swipe or scroll the deck →Richard Nixon's presidential portrait. Retouch has not been completed yet.
1 June 1972, per [1] [2] [3] · Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984)
Image source · Public domainRadio heard a tie. Television saw a winner.
Astronaut Alan Shepard photographed in flight by a 16mm movie camera inside the Freedom 7 spacecraft. Shepard is just about to raise the shield in front of his face during descent after opening of the main parachute.
1961-05-05 · NASA
Image source · Public domainFifteen minutes that felt like forever
![March on Washington — Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Civil_rights_march_on_Washington%2C_D.C._from_Lincoln_%28cropped%29.jpg/960px-Civil_rights_march_on_Washington%2C_D.C._from_Lincoln_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Photograph showing crowds of people on The Mall, starting at the Lincoln Memorial, going around the Reflecting Pool, and continuing to the Washington Monument.
28 August 1963date QS:P571,+1963-08-28T00:00:00Z/11 · This photograph was made by Rowland Scherman at the March on Washington. The negatives are in the custody of the National Archives.
Image source · Public domainA quarter million on the Mall
John F. Kennedy, photograph in the Oval Office.
1963-07-11 · Cecil W. Stoughton
Image source · Public domainDallas, a Friday lunchtime
English band The Beatles wave to fans after arriving at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1964-02-07 · United Press International, photographer unknown
Image source · Public domainSeventy-three million screaming witnesses
From PLCjr on Flickr.com -- Photograph by Anthony Conti of the Unisphere and surroundings at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. This photo is a picture taken of the original Kodachrome slide.
1964-08 · Anthony Conti; scanned and published by PLCjr from Richmond, VA, USA
Image source · CC BY-SA 2.0License termsThe future, now boarding in Queens
Still from the sourced The Sound of Music trailer. The video is supplied by Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers.
1965 · Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers
Image source · YouTube trailer thumbnailThe hills, in glorious Todd-AO
Photo of Leonard Nimoy as a cast member of Mission:Impossible.
August 18, 1973 stamp · CBS Television
Image source · Public domainFive-year mission, infinite reruns
Aerial view of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
2025-08-18 · Quintin Soloviev
Image source · CC BY 4.0License termsTwo networks, one kickoff
The Beatles 1963 publicity photo used on the cover of I Want to Hold Your Hand
Published on: 29 November 1963 (UK) 26 December 1963 (US) · Dezo Hoffmann, Distributed by Capitol Records
Image source · Public domainThe album becomes an event
Fred Rogers in 1988
1988 · Family Communications, Inc.
Image source · Public domainA cardigan, a trolley, and total sincerity
Taken by Apollo 8 crewmember Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, at mission time 075:49:07 [8] (16:40 UTC), while in orbit around the Moon, showing the Earth rising for the third time above the lunar horizon. The lunar horizon is approximately 780 kilometers from the spacecraft. Width of the photographed area at the lunar horizon is about 175 kilometers. [9] The land mass visible just above the terminator line is west Africa. Note that this phenomenon is only visible to an observer in motion relat
Taken on 24 December 1968, 16:40 UTC[10] · NASA/Bill Anders
Image source · Public domainOh my God, look at that picture over there
Apollo 11 Hasselblad image from film magazine 40/S - EVA. The image of astronaut Neil Armstrong photographing astronaut Aldrin is clearly seen in the reflections on the helmet visor of astronaut Aldrin. Astronaut Armstrong, the Lunar Module Eagle, and the shadow cast by Aldrin are mirrored in the reflection. Astronaut Aldrin showing boots and suit discoloration caused by adhering lunar soil.
1969-07-20 · Neil A. Armstrong
Image source · Public domainThe whole planet holds its breath
Title: Jim Henson, creator, The Muppets Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: [1979] Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-01610 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information see "Bernard Gotfryd," (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.592.gotf) Access Advisory: Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation. Call Number: LC-G
1979 · Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer
Image source · Public domainSunny days, sweeping the clouds away
An advertisement poster for the Woodstock Festival, 1969
1969 · Arnold Skolnick
Image source · Public domainThree days of peace, music, and mud
Fifteen minutes that felt like forever
Did your classroom wheel in a TV for launches?
Radio heard a tie. Television saw a winner.
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In memoriam
The screen's brightest star; the myth has never stopped being retold.
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1964Sam CookeThe voice of 'A Change Is Gonna Come' — soul music's founding promise.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1965Nat King ColeA velvet baritone and the first Black American to host a network TV series.
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1966Walt DisneyMickey Mouse, the animated feature, and the theme park — one imagination, three industries.
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1967Otis Redding'(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay' arrived after he was gone, and stayed forever.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 1968Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.The moral center of the civil-rights movement; the dream outlived the man.
National Park Service 1969Judy GarlandDorothy Gale and 'Over the Rainbow' — the century's most borrowed voice of longing.
Encyclopaedia BritannicaPICTURE DESK 108 SOURCED MOMENTS
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MISSION CONTROL · 60s
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THE REWIND TEN · 1960s
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Keep falling
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VICTIMS FIRST · NON-GRAPHIC · SEPARATE FROM ENTERTAINMENT
A solemn record of major fatal U.S. school shootings since Columbine, built around community remembrance—not the people who caused the harm.
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04 SOURCE LEDGER
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