talesfromweirdland:Images from Miroslav Sasek’s 1960s book, This Is Washington, D.C.These pictures m
talesfromweirdland:Images from Miroslav Sasek’s 1960s book, This Is Washington, D.C. These pictures might seem idyllic, but Sasek went on to say:“It was like a continuing nightmare. It was worse than Berlin in 1945! The riots were especially terrible to witness. One day while I was sketching the grave site of John F. Kennedy, the guards told me that I would have to leave; moments later trucks and crewmen appeared to dig the grave of Robert F. Kennedy. I could not believe these tragedies, one after the other.” -- source link
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