1960's
Life Magazines from the 1960's
Life Magazine called the 1960s “A Divided Decade” that defied efforts to classify and label it. There was a feeling of hope and optimism as old barriers of race, gender and lifestyle began to break down. At the same time, a wave of violence and unrest was sweeping across the US. LIFE Magazine’s reputation as a top news magazine guaranteed that its stories captured the hope and cynicism that were the hallmark of a tumultuous decade.
LIFE Magazine had a lot to cover in the 1960s. The political scene alone, with the space race, civil rights movement, feminist movement, anti-war movement, Cuban Missile Crisis, the Watts race riots and the assassinations of President Kennedy, Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been enough. But covering the cultural revolution - from The Beatles to communes to Woodstock - and the “computer” revolution kept LIFE Magazine reporters scrambling, successfully, for the stories that would make LIFE Magazine that much more important as a historical record.
One of the most important stories that LIFE Magazine would ever cover was the Vietnam War. From sending photographers to the trenches to covering the stories of draft dodgers and deserters, LIFE Magazines during the 1960s explored every aspect of the most highly televised conflict in history. LIFE Magazine would do it’s part to shape the story, as well. One of LIFE’s most memorable stories was from an issue published on June 27, 1969. Editor-in-chief Hedley Donovan approved a yearbook-like spread of photos of the 242 soldiers who died in Vietnam between May 28 and June 3. That feature did what the editor hoped - it burned into the American consciousness the young faces of the men who fought.
So many other pivotal moments in history occurred between 1960 and 1969 that it’s hard to document them here, but LIFE Magazine captured the opinions, words and images that defined an undefinable decade. A look through any one of the LIFE Magazines we carry from the 1960s will give you an up-close look at history being made.
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September 10, 1960 Saturday Evening Post Stealing Cake at Grownups Party
Starting at: $15.95
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September 12, 1960 Life Magazine Gymnasts in Rome
Starting at: $16.95
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September 13, 1960 Look Magazine New England
Starting at: $14.95
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September 17, 1960 Saturday Evening Post "Window Washer" (Rockwell)
Starting at: $27.95
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September 19, 1960 Life Magazine Grandma Moses at 100
Starting at: $16.95
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September 26, 1960 Life Magazine Norell Styles, fashion
Starting at: $16.95
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September 26, 1960 Sports Illustrated Jim Brown, Cleveland Browns
Starting at: $13.95
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September 27, 1960 Look Magazine Robert Stack
Starting at: $14.95
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October 1, 1960 Car Magazines Road & Track
Starting at: $6.95
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October 3, 1960 Life Magazine Eisenhower at United Nations
Starting at: $16.95
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October 10, 1960 Life Magazine Doris Day
Starting at: $16.95
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October 10, 1960 Sports Illustrated Washington Huskies-Navy game
Starting at: $13.95
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October 15, 1960 Saturday Evening Post Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Starting at: $15.95
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October 17, 1960 Life Magazine Henry Cabot Lodge and wife Emily
Starting at: $16.95
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October 22, 1960 Saturday Evening Post Big Shadow, Little Boy
Starting at: $15.95
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October 24, 1960 Life Magazine Nancy Kwan
Starting at: $16.95
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October 31, 1960 Life Magazine Halloween
Starting at: $16.95
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November 1, 1960 Car Magazines Road & Track
Starting at: $6.95
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November 5, 1960 Saturday Evening Post Richard Milhouse Nixon (Rockwell)
Starting at: $21.95
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November 7, 1960 Life Magazine Earth's new look
Starting at: $16.95
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November 7, 1960 Sports Illustrated Down with Gourmets
Starting at: $13.95
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November 8, 1960 Look Magazine Fidel Castro
Starting at: $17.95
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November 12, 1960 Saturday Evening Post First Vote in the New States
Starting at: $15.95
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November 14, 1960 Life Magazine Sophia Loren
Starting at: $24.95
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November 19, 1960 Saturday Evening Post Yale vs. Harvard
Starting at: $15.95
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November 21, 1960 Life Magazine Winner Kennedys
Starting at: $19.95
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November 21, 1960 Sports Illustrated Skiing
Starting at: $13.95
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November 26, 1960 Saturday Evening Post Flat Tire at the Commuter Station
Starting at: $15.95
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November 28, 1960 Life Magazine Carroll Baker
Starting at: $16.95
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November 28, 1960 Sports Illustrated Joe Bellino, Navy football
Starting at: $13.95
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December 1, 1960 Car Magazines Road & Track
Starting at: $6.95
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December 3, 1960 Saturday Evening Post Crossing Guard Fixing Her Makeup
Starting at: $15.95
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December 5, 1960 Life Magazine Pro football kickoff
Starting at: $16.95
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December 6, 1960 Look Magazine Dinah Shore
Starting at: $14.95
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December 10, 1960 Saturday Evening Post Christmas in Hiding
Starting at: $15.95
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December 12, 1960 Life Magazine Jill Haworth and Sal Mineo
Starting at: $16.95
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December 17, 1960 Saturday Evening Post Merry Christmas from the IRS
Starting at: $15.95
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December 19, 1960 Life Magazine John F. Kennedy Jr.'s christening
Starting at: $16.95
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December 20, 1960 Look Magazine Christmas in Hawaii
Starting at: $14.95
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December 24, 1960 Saturday Evening Post Commuter Station Snowed In
Starting at: $15.95