Description
Original LIFE Magazine — August 4, 1967
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published August 4, 1967 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Armed National Guardsmen patrol amid the fires of the 1967 Detroit uprising.
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s dramatic coverage of the Detroit unrest, including the violence, fires, destruction, military response, and growing racial tensions that shook the city during the summer of 1967, along with the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture, and features from August 4, 1967.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Civil rights history collectors, Detroit history enthusiasts, 1960s social-history readers, political-history collectors, photojournalism admirers, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone who wants a meaningful gift from a specific date or year.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorial: Quench Riots?and Look Beyond
Pg… 8–12 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Movie: “The War Wagon” and “El Dorado,” with John Wayne, Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 8–12 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Book: Philippe Jullian’s “Edward and the Edwardians,” Reviewed by Lord Kinross
Pg… 8–12 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Theater: Shakespeare and Gogol in Stratford, Ontario, Reviewed by Tom Prideaux
Pg… 14A Opinion and Comment: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 14B Opinion and Comment: The View from Here: A Tough Time to be a Good Cop. By Loudon Wainwright
Pg… 16 The Week’s News and Features: Detroit: the Flames Spread: Federal Troops Move Into a City at the Blazing Heart of a Nation in Disorder
Pg… 30 The Week’s News and Features: Close–Up: Aging Heavy of the Paris Expatriates: Novelist Jim Jones in the Summer of His Anger. By Hugh Moffett
Pg… 38 The Week’s News and Features: Under 21 Fashions: They are Way–Out, and Worn in a Bizarre Young World. Photographed by Barry Kaplan
Pg… 44A The Week’s News and Features: Special Report: Turkey: Death at a House Called No. 116. By Michael Durham
Pg… 44B The Week’s News and Features: Visit: Le Grand Faux Pas of Le Grand Charles
Pg… 44D The Week’s News and Features: The Years of Carl Sandburg: The Poet Who Sang of America Dies at the Age of 89. Memories in Photographs and His Own Wonderful Works
Pg… 54 The Week’s News and Features: Fearless Fred, Driver’s Friend: From His Helicopter Over New York, Radio’s Fred Feldman Calls the Traffic Jams as He Sees Them. By Paul O’Neil
Pg… 62 The Week’s News and Features: Sports: John du Pont Aims for the Olympics as Host to a Pentathlon Meet He Wants to Win. “How About at Your Place?” Said the Colonel. By John R. McDermott
Pg… 66 The Week’s News and Features: Religion: Patriarch and Pope Meet on the Bosporus
Pg… 68 The Week’s News and Features: Miscellany
