Almost Cut My Hair, and Me and My Puppy #008

Me and my Dawg/Puppy #008.

This must have been one of those "Radical Left-Wing" households in the '50s where they let the kids grow their hair. It's hilarious, because I come from a extremely progressive College/University bunch and environment in the '60s, BUT,

I carried a burr or shorter hair than this kid, until at least 20 years after this was taken. And so it seems for folks in the 60s; Conflicted about everything.

1968 Inauguration of Nixon, And What a Year For an 8 year-old

Washington, D.C. --- 1968- Preparing for inauguration -- David Brinkley and Chet Huntley will form the anchor team when NBC News covers the inauguration of President-elect Richard M. Nixon, Mon., Jan. 20, in full color on the NBC Television Network (10 am till conclusion NYT). The special coverage will bring NBC-TV viewers all the activities and ceremonies of the inauguration during the day, as well as the inaugural ball during the evening. --- Image by © Bettmann Archives

You notice the caption reads "the inaugural ball"- Singular.

Photographer John Shearer On Assignment, Attica Uprising, New York, 1971

Photographer John Shearer on assignment outside Attica prison during a prisoner riot and uprising.
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 843 x 1280 pixels (11.7 x 17.8 inches)

Narratives From The 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, and further: Attica Revisited.

LIFE Magazine Photo Archive

"Cabinets" For Bodies "Identified" As "John Doe" From The Riots At Attica, September 1971

Closeup of cabinets for bodies and labels which indentify them as "John Doe".
Location: NY, US
Date taken: September 1971
Photographer: Bill Ray
Size: 1280 x 841 pixels (17.8 x 11.7 inches)

I was pretty young when this happened, but I remember that the Attica Uprising lingered in the collective consciousness for a long time, and was only later forgotten as a tragedy and injustice. More information, here.

LIFE Photo Archive