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image credits
Leffler, Warren K. A Man and a Woman Watching a Film Footage of the Vietnam War on a Television in the Living Room. February 13, 1968. Library of Congress.
___. Martin Luther King Jr. at Microphones. December 3, 1963. Library of Congress.
___. Negro Demonstration in Washington, DC. Justice Dept. Bobby Kennedy Speaking to Crowd. June 14, 1963. Library of Congress.
Walter Cronkite Reporting for CBS Television News. 1952. Sig Mickelson Papers; Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, the University of Texas at Austin.