Description
Original LIFE Magazine — July 25 1969
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published July 25 1969 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong preparing to depart for the Moon, waving in his spacesuit beneath the cover line “Leaving for the Moon.”
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s coverage of the Apollo 11 mission as Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins prepared for humanity’s first lunar landing, along with the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture, and features from July 25 1969.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Space-history enthusiasts, NASA collectors, Apollo 11 fans, Neil Armstrong admirers, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone looking for a meaningful gift connected to the first Moon landing.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 4 Column: The Long and Short of Leo and Me. By Barry Farrell
Pg… 8–14 Reviews: Movie: “The Wild Bunch,” Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 8–14 Reviews: Book” “The Underachieving School,” by John Holt, Reviewed by Jonathan Kozol
Pg… 8–14 Reviews: Music: The Motown Comeback, by Albert Goldman
Pg… 18A Letters to the Editors
Pg… 18D Apollo’s Leap for the Moon: As Hundreds of Thousands Gather to Witness History at Cape Kennedy, Loudon Wainwright, Long a Chronicler of the Astronauts, Recalls the Men and Memories Behind the Moonshot
Pg… 30 Editorial: Benchmarks to Judge Nixon by
Pg… 32 Don’t Ask Me, I Only Live Here: Russell Baker, a Noted Humorist, Comments on Our Times
Pg… 40 Fashion Goes Greek: What’s a Nice Girl Like this Doing in a Myth Like Greece? Photographed by Raymundo de Larrain. Text by William A. McWhirter
Pg… 50 Close–Up: Civil Rights Lawyer William Kunstler is Soul Brother to Radicals of Many Colors
Pg… 53 Special Report: A Novelist’s Tale of Four Horrible Cape Cod Murders. “There’s a Maniac Loose Out There.” By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Pg… 58 Movies: They Danced Till They Dropped: a Film Recalls the Grueling Marathons of the ’30s. By Dick Adler
Pg… 63 Medicine: A New Electronic Monitor Helps Doctors “Watch” the Unborn in the Womb
Pg… 66 Miscellany
