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Jimmy Stewart on the phone, 1945

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Jimmy Stewart, 1945: A War Hero Comes Home

Hundreds of corpses on the ground beneath trees at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, April 1945.

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At the Gates of Hell: The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen, April 1945

World Trade Center 1983

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Lower Manhattan’s Lost Anchors: Remembering the Twin Towers

December 5, 1969 issue of LIFE Magazine

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American Atrocity: Remembering My Lai

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‘Spanish Village’: W. Eugene Smith’s Landmark Photo Essay

Klan initiates (including some Atlanta policemen) stand before a burning cross during a ritual in Georgia, 1946.

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Bigotry in the USA: Photos From a Ku Klux Klan Initiation

Pope Pius XI, whose desire to be buried below St. Peter's nave led to the historic excavations, lies in his stone sarcophagus in renovated upper grottoes.

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LIFE at the Vatican: Unearthing History Beneath St. Peter’s

Tears stream down the cheeks of accordion-playing Chief Petty Officer (USN) Graham Jackson as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's flag-draped funeral train leaves Warm Springs, Ga., April 13, 1945.

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Mourning FDR: In a Classic Photo, the Face of a Nation’s Loss

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LIFE in the Middle East: Power and Petroleum in the Gulf in 1945

Farewell to departing troops at New York's Penn Station, April 1943.

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The Heartache of Wartime Farewells, 1943

LIFE and Civil Rights: Anatomy of a Protest, Virginia, 1960

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Civil Rights: Preparation and Protest, 1960

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It All Falls Apart: Stalingrad, and a Photographer’s Film, in Ruins

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