Description
Original LIFE Magazine — October 27, 1967
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published October 27, 1967 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: U.S. Marine under fire at Con Thien during the Vietnam War, photographed by David Douglas Duncan.
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s powerful report, Inside the Cone of Fire at Con Thien, with David Douglas Duncan’s photographs and firsthand coverage of U.S. Marines serving under intense enemy fire during the Vietnam War, along with the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture, and features from October 27, 1967.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Vietnam War veterans and families, U.S. Marine Corps collectors, military-history enthusiasts, David Douglas Duncan admirers, photojournalism collectors, 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: A National Guard Shape–Up is Overdue
Pg… 6–22 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Book: Stanley Elkin’s “A Bad Man,” Reviewed by Webster Schott
Pg… 6–22 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Movie: “The Battle of Algiers,” Reviewed by Maurice Rapf
Pg… 6–22 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Frank Gifford on Football, Reviewed by John R. McDermott
Pg… 28A Opinion and Comment: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 28C The Week’s News and Features: Con Thien: A Famous Combat Photographer Lives with the Marines Inside the Line of Fire at the Farthest American Outpost. Photographed and Written by David Douglas Duncan
Pg… 42D The Week’s News and Features: The Presidency: New Tactic: Forget Consensus, Act Tough. By Hugh Sidey
Pg… 45 The Week’s News and Features: Close–Up: Frontiersman of the Sea: Tap Pryor, Crusading Biologist
Pg… 53 The Week’s News and Features: Music: “I am Society’s Child.” Little Janis Ian Turns a Grown–Up Eye on Life
Pg… 60 The Week’s News and Features: How the Computer Does It: Step by Step, an Easy Exercise Reveals the Workings of Man’s Most Complex Machine. Photographed by Henry Groskinsky. Text by Robert Campbell
Pg… 74A The Week’s News and Features: Sports: He’s Known as O.J. and He’s the Best College Halfback in the Country. By Jordan Bonfante
Pg… 77 The Week’s News and Features: Politics: All at Sea with the Governors as They Confer Aboard the S.S. “Independence.” By Richard B. Stolley
Pg… 81 The Week’s News and Features: Special Report: Methedrine?the Thrill Drug that has Even the Hippies Scared. By Albert Rosenfeld
Pg… 85 The Week’s News and Features: National Guard: Awake or Asleep?: A Reporter Who “Joined” Units in Four Cities Raises a Hard Question. By William A. McWhirter
Pg… 101 The Week’s News and Features: Sledge–Hammer Sell: Can Mary Wells Rescue American Motors? By Nancy Belliveau
Pg… 108 The Week’s News and Features: Fashion: A Big Splash in Raincoats
Pg… 111 The Week’s News and Features: Education: A 19–Year–Old Professor Teaches Philosophy at Stanford University
Pg… 114 The Week’s News and Features: Miscellany
