Description
Original LIFE Magazine — August 8 1969
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published August 8 1969 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: The Apollo 11 landing site on the Moon, featuring the American flag, astronaut footprints, and photographs by Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s historic coverage of Apollo 11 after humanity’s first Moon landing, including photographs from the lunar surface, the astronauts’ footprints, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, NASA, and the worldwide response to one of history’s greatest achievements.
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, Moon-landing collectors, LIFE Magazine readers, educators, and anyone looking for a meaningful gift connected to the first lunar landing.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 4 The Presidency: A Half–Farewell to Asia. By Hugh Sidey
Pg… 6 Gallery: Niklas Deak’s Apocalypse
Pg… 8–12 Reviews: Museum of Primitive Art Collection at the Metropolitan, Reviewed by Robert Phelps
Pg… 8–12 Reviews: Music: Newport Jazz Festival, Reviewed by Teddy Wainwright
Pg… 16A Letters to the Editors
Pg… 16B The Nude Scene: [BLIP] is Beautiful. By William Zinsser
Pg… 16F Column: In Dread of Knowing More. By Barry Farrell
Pg… 18 Men on the Moon: Color Pictures of the Triumphant Apollo II Mission, Shot by the Astronauts on the Lunar Surface
Pg… 30 Editorials: Journey Round a New Landscape
Pg… 30 Editorials: Kennedy: the Unanswered Questions
Pg… 33 Newsfronts: In Spain, a Royal Restoration. Generalissimo Franco Appoints 31–Year–Old Prince Juan Carlos as His Successor
Pg… 40 Everybody Lives at Watergate: In John Kennedy’s Time Georgetown was the Right Address in Washington. For Nixonians, the Place is a Fancy Apartment Building the Size of a Whole Neighborhood. Photographed by Michael Rougier
Pg… 48 Medicine: Psychiatry Gets Off the Couch and Hits the Streets
Pg… 48E Occult: Rosemary Brown Hears Music?and Beethoven (or Liszt or Schubert or?) is There. By Dorothy Bacon
Pg… 51 Vietnam: The Long Last Month Before a GI Goes Home. By John Star
Pg… 56 Great Dinners: Part 64: A Dandy Chicken in Aspic. Photographed by Henry Groskinsky
Pg… 58B Birds Fit for a Future King: A Classy Selection of Possible Mates for the Prince of Wales
