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Inspecting Captured Enemy Equipment, 1950

Leathernecks take time out to inspect captured enemy equipment.

Captain Ted Williams, Former Boston Red Sox Slugger, 1953

AROOSTOOK LEATHERNECK IN KOREA -- Marine Sergeant Roger W. McCully, 21, straps Captain Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugger, into his jet…

Top Secret Report of Major Yuri Gagarin

Full Report of Yury Gagarin to the State Commission after his mission, on April 13, 1961.

Pravda Newspaper Article, 'Announcement of the First Satellite'

Announcement of the launch of the first artificial "sputnik" satellite by the Soviet Union.

Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich (1934 - 1968)

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin at a press conference in Finland several months after his space flight in 1961.

An excerpt from a speech by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. about President Eisenhower’s “Open Skies” proposal to the United Nations, 1962.

Senator Lodge describes the proposed Open Skies program, which was intended to de-escalate the Cold War and provide more transparency for…

Miss Florence Fowler Lyons on Communist infiltration

Miss Florence Fowler Lyons displays UNESCO publications and criticizes UNESCO as preaching internationalism and outright atheism in a speech before a…

Danny Dare, ex-communist

First witness was Ex-Communist Danny Dare, 48, Hollywood producer, director and writer, who gave a dramatic recital of how Communist propaganda is…

A 1962 news clip of the hydrogen-powered American Centaur missile exploding after take-off

Following Yuri Gagarin’s successful orbit in 1961 and President John F. Kennedy’s ambitious plans for investment in space exploration, the American…

Apollo 11 Mission image - Astronaut Edwin Aldrin walks near the Lunar Module

Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr.,Lunar Module (LM) pilot, walks near the module as a picture is taken of him. Discoloration is visible on his boots and…