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Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. history

The March on Washington, 1963

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In Praise of Hitchcock’s Leading Ladies

Charles Manson in custody, 1969. history

The Manson Family on Trial: Madness Visible

Detroit Burning: Photos From the 12th Street Riot, 1967 history

Detroit Burning: Photos From the 12th Street Riot, 1967

US Marine Captain Francis "Ike" Fenton in despair as he is told that his company is almost out of ammunition while trying to hold off a heavy counter-attack by North Korean forces. (Photo by David Douglas Duncan /The LIFE Images Collection) history

Korean War: Classic Photos by David Douglas Duncan

Margaret Bourke-White, 27, stands on the scaffolding enclosing the under-construction Chrysler Building in New York, 1931. history

“Great Lady With a Camera”: Margaret Bourke-White, American Original

LIFE magazine pictures made after an atomic weapon test, Nevada, 1955. history

Mannequin Mayhem: Aftermath of an A-Bomb Test in Nevada

Troops are carted by tractor to the movies from an isolated camp in Massacre Vally, Attu Island, Aleutian Campaign, Alaska, 1943. history

World War II’s Forgotten Front: LIFE in the Aleutians

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Last Days of High School: Mansfield, Ohio, 1941

Building the Pentagon, 1940s history

Talk About Office Space: LIFE at the Pentagon’s Early Days

Underwater ballet, 1945. history

Water: Essential, Beautiful, Mesmerizing, Fun

An American soldier holds a wounded Japanese boy in an airplane on Saipan as they await a flight to the nearest field hospital in 1944. history

Photographer Spotlight: Peter Stackpole

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