Pictures: A variety.
Finished Boom! I recommend it if you are at all interested in wandering down memory lane or even visiting some of the major events and personages of the Sixties, the Sixties being defined by the author Tom Brokaw as the period from JFK's assassination to RMN's resignation. Interesting times we lived through. Brokaw ends his tome with James Lovell, one of the astronauts who circled the moon in December of 1968, which mission sent back some startling pictures of Earth, one of which was used by Stewart Brand and his Whole Earth Catalog. Remember that wondrous and extremely instructional book that guided those of us who were part of the 'back to the land movement'? Those raised in the country or on farms would think this as just a collection of stuff of everyday life. For the likes of me, it was an education and an entry to a world of self sufficiency. But I digress since it is reaction to the moon mission on which I wanted to remark - that being messages to Lovell and the other astronauts that thanked them for 'saving 1968', the year of the assassinations of MLK and RFK. Indeed.
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