Description
Original LIFE Magazine — June 2 1967
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published June 2 1967 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Chinese violinist Ma Sitson surrounded by Red Guards during China’s Cultural Revolution, beneath the headline “In the Hands of the Red Guard—Torture and Degradation.”
Inside This Issue: Features Ma Sitson’s firsthand account of persecution, public humiliation, and escape from Communist China, along with LIFE’s original news, photography, politics, culture, advertising, and features from June 2 1967. The Red Guards were a militant student-led movement active during the early Cultural Revolution.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Chinese-history readers, Cultural Revolution researchers, Cold War collectors, classical-music enthusiasts, LIFE Magazine collectors, educators, and anyone seeking a meaningful historical gift from 1967.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorials: Hot Summer Hallucinogenics
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorials: Less U.S. Muscle, More Leverage
Pg… 8–17 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Book: James Purdy’s “Eustace Chisholm and The Works,” Reviewed by Angus Wilson
Pg… 8–17 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Movie: “La Vie de Ch?teau, Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 8–17 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Theater: The Case for Repertory, by Tom Prideaux
Pg… 20B Opinion and Comment: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 20D Opinion and Comment: Guest Column: By Philip Kunhardt This is My Land
Pg… 22 The Week’s News and Features: Escape from the Red Guard: A Cultural Leader of Red China Who Fled to U.S. Tells His Story: Cruelty and Insanity Made Me a Fugitive. By Ma Sitson
Pg… 30 The Week’s News and Features: On the Newsfronts of the World: Arabs and Israelis, Muzzle to Muzzle. Fire Tragedy in Brussels. Hong Kong Writhes in Maoist Riots
Pg… 37 The Week’s News and Features: Close–Up: A Yeasty Man Called Jeremy: Irreverent Voice of Britain’s Liberal Party
Pg… 45 The Week’s News and Features: Architecture: Dream Parabola of St. Louis’ Gateway Arch
Pg… 50 The Week’s News and Features: A Family of White Wolves: A Rarely Seen Animal in Its Desolate Haunt in the Far North, and a Photographer’s Lonely, Relentless Trek in Pursuit. Pictures and Text by Stan Wayman
Pg… 68 The Week’s News and Features: Vietnam: Tough, Coming Along: An Editor’s Report: Return to the War After 17 Months. By Hedley Donovan
Pg… 68 The Week’s News and Features: Vietnam: Tough, Coming Along: Action Along Highway 13. photographed by Co Rentmeester
Pg… 78 The Week’s News and Features: Sports: Never a Champ Like Nino Benvenuti, Italy’s King of the Middleweights. By Thomas Thompson
Pg… 87 The Week’s News and Features: Fashion: Luscious Plumage for a Showy Summer. Photographed by Gordon Parks
Pg… 94 The Week’s News and Features: Miscellany
