50 years ago: a look back

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A half-century ago, protests erupted around the world against the Vietnam War, race riots in the U.S. destroyed parts of Detroit and other northern cities, Elvis Presley married Priscilla in Las Vegas, Israel fought and won the Six- Day War against Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, the 20th Century Limited passenger train made its final run from New York to Chicago, and much more.

From left, veteran astronaut Virgil Grissom, first American spacewalker Ed White and rookie Roger Chaffee, stand for a photograph at Cape Kennedy, Florida. During a launch pad test on January 27, 1967, a flash fire erupted inside their capsule killing the three Apollo crew members.

A large portion of the estimated 5,000 who listened intently to Dr. Martin Luther King speak at Sproul Hall, University of California administration building in Berkeley, California, on May 17, 1967.

"Dirty Fascist!" An enraged University of Wisconsin student yells at a policeman after Madison police used riot clubs and tear gas to break up an anti-war protest on October 18, 1967.

U.S. troops use their rifles in an encounter with antiwar demonstrators outside the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on October 21, 1967.

Sammy Davis Jr., sings along with Diana Ross & The Supremes on the " Hollywood Palace" television show on October 2, 1967.

Boston Marathon race official Jock Semple (in street clothes) enters the field of runners to try to pull Kathy Switzer (261) out of the race. At the time, women were not allowed to compete in the marathon.

In Vietnam, a Navy lieutenant aims a flaming arrow at a hut across the river that concealed a Viet Cong bunker during the Vietnam War.

A female Viet Cong suspect is questioned at gunpoint by a South Vietnamese national police officer at Tam Ky, about 350 miles north of Saigon, on November 1967.

Picture taken on December 25, 1967, of soldiers taking rest close to a small Christmas tree, on their position at the Hill 875 near Dakto, few days after the North Vietnamese Army made a massive assault.

Raquel Welch dances on stage with a group of soldiers during a Bob Hope USO show in Da Nang, Vietnam.

Comedian Bob Hope entertains U.S. troops on an outdoor stage.

Navy crewmen try to put out a fire aboard the USS Forrestal in the Tonkin Gulf off the coast of Vietnam, on July 29, 1967, after an F-4 Phantom accidentally fired a zuni rocket into an A-4 Skyhawk which caused massive explosions on the aft end of the flight deck.

Professor Paul Moller of the University of California sits in the cockpit of the flying saucer he invented after the craft landed successfully from a flight three feet above the ground.

Russian leaders, from left, Leonid Brezhnev, Alexey Kosygin, Nikolai Podgorny and Mikhail Suslov, in Moscow in May of 1967.

New York City, West 42nd Street, looking west, 1967.

The Queen Mary arrives in Long Beach, California.

Prototype of the Concorde supersonic aircraft, shown at Toulouse, France, on December 12, 1967.

Residents watch as fire consumes a building on Detroit's West Side during race riots in July of 1967.

Original Caption: Tough-looking Michigan National Guardsmen push rioting Negroes back from a burning building with fixed bayonets on Detroit's riot-torn west side on July 26, 1967.

A black shop owner hopes to protect his business with big "Soul Brother" notices outside his shop, seen during the Detroit riots, in July of 1967.

The scene after a race riot in New Jersey, in which windows were smashed and stores looted. A soldier crouches in the doorway amid the devastation.

Italian fashion in 1967. Creations by the Farsoni fashion house of Rome.

Part of a crowd of some 25,000 people that attended a mass rally in support of American troops in Vietnam in Wakefield, Massachusetts.

Singer Elvis Presley and his bride Priscilla Ann Beaulieu pose for a photo following their wedding at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas on May 1, 1967.

A French aerotrain monorail--a rocket-boosted hovertrain-- sets new world railway speed record in 1967.

About 12,000 fans turned out for a performance by the Rolling Stones on their first visit to Zurich on April 16, 1967. All of a sudden, "chaos." The tumult started when several frenzied fans tried to climb onto the stage.

An Egyptian military transport vehicle goes up in flames in an unknown location after being hit by an Israeli tank shell during the Six-Day War, on June 5, 1967.

Egyptian prisoners put their hands on their heads after they were captured in an Israeli advance during the Six-Day War.

An Egyptian warplane lays destroyed following an attack by Israeli aircraft in June of 1967.

Destroyed Egyptian armour lines the sides of a Sinai road after it was hit by Israeli jet fighters during the 1967 Six Day War.

Israeli soldiers celebrate during the 1967 Middle East War, widely known as the Six Day War.

Policemen are shown among a crowd in Rome, Italy, on November 29, during protest against the war in Vietnam.

The Twentieth Century Limited passenger train of the New York Central System is shown after its final run in Chicago, Illinois, on December 4, 1967. The Century began its run between Chicago and New York in 1902.