Friday, September 21, 2007

Life in 1968

I was able to uncover the 1969 life magazine titled "the incredible year 1968", basically it is a almanac of what occurred in that year. This was the year of Martin King Jr's and Bobby Kennedy's assassinations, the first manned mission went into space, and Hairspray first appeared on Broadway, and the U.S. was deeply involved in Vietnam. The spreads discuss the wife's of the Apollo 8 crew patiently awaiting for their husbands to return to them, an Anacin ad which targets the housewife, etc, etc.. I was amazed at the amount of stereotypes that were in this magazine, and feel that this would be a great magazine to do my project on.

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