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Gagarin, Yuri Alekseyevich (1934 - 1968)

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

Pravda Newspaper Article, 'Announcement of the First Satellite'

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

Top Secret Report of Major Yuri Gagarin

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

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…

Inspecting Captured Enemy Equipment, 1950

Leathernecks take time out to inspect captured enemy equipment.

Mind-sets and missiles : a first hand account of the Cuban missile crisis / Kenneth Michael Absher

This document contains a first hand account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and how it was addressed by US officials.

The Cuban missile crisis : President Kennedy's address to the nation, October 22, 1962

This document contains a transcript of President Kennedy's speech addressing the Cuban Missile Crisis. It details the aftermath as well as the effect…

Burial of American Dead

Carl Mydans was coming to the end of his assignment as TIME-LIFE bureau chief in Tokyo when North Korea decided to invade South Korea. During the…