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Apr 6 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Jacqueline Kennedy at funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Atlanta, this week 1968: #Getty Image
Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. King on day of the funeral, this week 1968: Image
Attendees at MLK’s funeral include Eugene McCarthy and Abigail, George Romney and Lenore, Richard Nixon, Ted Kennedy: Image
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s funeral program, Atlanta, this week 1968. Look at the photograph chosen by the family and friends: Image
Coretta Scott King and Bernice King at the funeral: #Getty Image
Photograph chosen for MLK funeral program, this week 1968: Image

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After telling Americans he would not run, LBJ with channel changer in room next to Oval Office, watching TV coverage of his speech, tonight 1968:
Do you use the word “remote,” “channel changer,” “clicker” or something else? Do different regions use different terms for this?
Zenith’s corded “‘Lazy Bones’ Station Selector,” 1950:
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Joint Base Andrews (formerly Andrews Air Force Base), photographed a few minutes ago. Anyone want to remind us of some of the history that has been made here?
Eisenhower welcomes Khrushchev for first US visit by a supreme Soviet leader, Andrews Air Force Base, 1959: #Getty
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River in my beloved hometown of Chicago has been dyed green on St. Patrick’s Day for sixty years as of this week, but environmental concerns may compel that tradition to end:
Talking to one Mayor Daley, Chicago, 2005, in front of picture of another. Each served as Mayor for more than two decades. #AP
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Some guy is sending out e-mail messages tonight calling himself "the greatest President of all time."
No, it’s not Andrew Johnson.
Nope, it’s not the Ghost of Ceausescu calling himself “the greatest President of all time."
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Yes, everything that should be old history is painfully new again:
Back cover of my book on years of Cuban Missile Crisis (1991):
Here is speech draft written for JFK's use if he ordered US armed forces to bomb Cuba and USSR missile sites, incurring immediate danger of nuclear attack against United States by Kremlin, October 1962:
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Feb 23
Much of historic Lafayette Square, facing North Portico of the White House, was slated for demolition and replacement by grim and faceless office buildings before Jackie Kennedy helped to save it, 1961-1962: #JFKL
Yes, she is wearing that same suit.
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