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20 Jul

The Summer America Looked Up

How LIFE Brought the Space Race Into American Homes Before the Moon became a place Americans had visited, it was a promise. It appeared in grainy photographs, technical diagrams, artists’ renderings, and the determined faces of men preparing to leave Earth. It hovered above the country as both destination and test—a distant world that had suddenly become part of the American imagination. For millions of people, the journey unfolded through the pages of LIFE Magazine. Long before television could carry every stage of [...]

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Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers — Truth Revealed

In 1971, the United States faced a crisis that did not begin on a battlefield. It began in secret. For years, the American public had been told that the Vietnam War was progressing—that strategy was sound, that success was within reach. Inside the government, the reality was very different. The war was not being won.Officials knew it.And the public did not. One man decided that had to change. His name was Daniel Ellsberg. The Pentagon Papers The documents Ellsberg released—later known as the Pentagon Papers—were thousands of [...]

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