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Photojournalism and the American Presidency - Reading America's Photos
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Wally McNamee
Anti-Vietnam War demonstrators march., © Wally McNamee, UT Center for American History

Photograph by: Wally McNamee, 1969
Demonstrators march toward the Washington Monument for an anti-Vietnam War rally. The Nixon administration promised a swift end to the war, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger began peace talks in Paris in 1970, but a ceasefire agreement wasn't reached until 1973.
 
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Wally McNamee works on the sidelines of a Baltimore Colt football gameAnti-Vietnam War demonstrators march.Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev eyes actress Jill St. John.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Vietnam Women's Memorial. A South Vietnamese orphan sits and two boys stand amid the remains of war. Florence Griffith-Joyner raises her arms in victory.

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