The World 60 Years Ago
Continuing our decades past series, today we look back at the world 60 years ago. ISLAND OF KOJE DO, South Korea—A camp for North Korean prisoners of war. Laundry hanging on the barbed wire, 1952.
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Book of the Week  RFK Funeral Train by Paul Fusco Thirty-nine years ago this week in Los Angeles, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. A funeral train carried his body from New York City to Washington, D.C. In RFK Funeral Train, Paul Fusco documents the funeral train procession. Despite the hot weather, hundreds of thousands of people stood along the train tracks waiting to pay their respects. | Join the Fray  © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. Photography is the most powerful of media because of its inherent veracity, and it behooves us all to guard against attempts to diminish its authority. We have in our hands the world’s greatest instrument of communication; it must be nourished and protected. Philip Jones Griffiths |
