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What else was happening in 1972? A look at cultural and news events around the world while Watergate was unfolding at home.
General Motors’ 1972 Chevy Vega.
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Bill Cosby in 1972, promoting his Saturday morning cartoon show, “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.”
Members of the group “Wings.” From left are Jimmy McCulloch, Denny Laine, front, Denny Seiwell, back, and Paul and Linda McCartney.
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Actress Liza Minnelli in character in “Cabaret.”
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March 9, 1972
Blues singer B.B. King (with guitar) performs for the inmates of Cook County Jail in Chicago.
Charles Knoblock
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The Godfather cannot refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day, and Bonasera, portrayed by Frank Puglia, left, asks Don Corleone, portrayed by Marlon Brando, for a favor in this scene from “The Godfather.”
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May 31, 1980
Protesters picket the theater near Times Square in New York where the film “Deep Throat” was being shown. FBI files released in June 2009 to the Associated Press showed agents across the country and at the highest level of the agency investigated “Deep Throat” — the 1972 porn movie, not the shadowy Watergate figure — in a vain attempt to roll back what became a cultural shift toward more permissive entertainment.
Dave Pickoff
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June 17, 1972
Police and maintenance workers carry out a stairwell door to the sixth floor of the Watergate office building load it into a police crime lab truck.
Ken Feil
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Feb. 28, 1972
U.S. President Richard Nixon, right, and Chinese Premier Chou En-lai attend a banquet in Shanghai.
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Feb. 9, 1972
Ehud Barak, left, stands with a pistol over the body of a Palestinian hijacker on the wing of a Sabena plane at Lod Ben Gurion airport, as other members of his unit evacuate passengers from the plane. Barak went on to become the Labor Party leader in Israel and was prime minister from 1999 to 2001.
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February 1972
Funerals for people killed in the Bloody Sunday disturbances in Belfast.
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Feb. 5, 1972
Sympathizers to the 13 people killed in confrontations between British troops and Londonderry, Northern Ireland, residents hold a 13-minute silent vigil in Chicago’s Civic Center plaza.
Edward Kitch
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Feb. 19, 1972
California Gov. Ronald Reagan tells a San Francisco news conference that he was “shocked” at the California Supreme Court’s 6 to 1 decision overturning the state’s death penalty. The opinion was written by Chief Justice Donald R. Wright, a Reagan appointee.
Robert Klein
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June 24, 1972
President Richard Nixon studies the flood damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Agnes, near Harrisburg, Pa., from his helicopter window. The president toured the Maryland-Pennsylvania area from his retreat at Camp David, Md.
Charles Tasnadi
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June 8, 1972
South Vietnamese forces follow terrified children, including 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 near Trang Bang, Vietnam, after an aerial napalm attack on suspected North Vietnamese troop positions. A Vietnamese air force bomber accidentally dropped its flaming napalm on South Vietnamese troops and civilians. The terrified girl had ripped off her burning clothes while fleeing. From left, are: Phan Thanh Tam, younger brother of Kim Phuc, who lost an eye; Phan Thanh Phuoc, youngest brother of Kim Phuc; Kim Phuc, and Kim Phuc's cousins Ho Van Bon and Ho Thi Ting. At right, Vietnamese Army photographer Hoang Can Danh, changes film in his camera.
Nick Ut
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May 21, 1972
Laszlo Toth, 33, strikes the back of the head of Michelangelo's famed Pieta with a hammer in St. Peter's Basilica. Toth knocked off an arm and chipped the face and veil of the Statue of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of Jesus Christ after the Crucifixion.
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April 9, 1972
Richard Floyd McCoy Jr., 29, of Provo, Utah, was arraigned in Salt Lake City on federal charges of air piracy in connection with the daring hijack of a United Air Lines 727 jet over Colorado. The hijacker extorted $500,000 from the airline and reportedly parachuted over Provo.
Wally Fong
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Evans Humenick, left, winds tape on a computer at a drug manufacturing firm in New York. The job earns him about $750 a month as a computer operator.
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Michael Jackson at age 13, the youngest member of the singing group Jackson Five, in his home in Encino, Calif.
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March 27, 1972
Cloris Leachman accepts her Oscar for best supporting actress in the film “The Last Picture Show” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
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May 15, 1972
Alabama Gov. George Wallace lies on the ground after being shot at a political rally in Laurel, Md., as his wife crouches over him. The dark spot on Wallace's shirt is a blood stain. Wallace, the onetime firebrand segregationist, was paralyzed by a would-be assassin s bullet as he campaigned for the presidency as a Democratic candidate.
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June 25, 1972
Mick Jagger, center, and the Rolling Stones perform to a capacity crowd in Houston.
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June 26, 1972
From left: Syrian President Hafez al-Assad, Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada, Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi in Kampala, Uganda, during an Organization of African Unity summit.
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July 1972
Actress Jane Fonda visits an anti-aircraft position in North Vietnam. Fonda says she feels awful about posing for the photo with North Vietnamese soldiers that sealed her reputation as “Hanoi Jane.”
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Aug. 1, 1972
Sen. Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.) reacts while listening to presidential hopeful Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.) announce that Eagleton is stepping aside as his vice presidential running mate during a news conference in Washington. A newspaper review of more than 1,000 pages of internal FBI documents on Eagleton found no evidence that the agency leaked information about his treatment for depression, a revelation that ended his vice presidential campaign.
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Sept. 4, 1972
U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz competes in the butterfly part of the 400-meter medley at the Olympic Games in Munich. The U.S. team placed first with a world record in 3:48.16 minutes. During his career, Spitz established 28 world records in swimming and won nine Olympic gold medals, seven of them at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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Sept. 5, 1972
A member of the Palestinian terrorist group who seized members of the Israeli Olympic team at their quarters in the Munich Olympic Village appears with a hood over his face on the balcony of the village building where the hostages were held. The 20-hour standoff ended in a botched rescue effort at the airport. In all, 11 Israeli athletes, five of the Palestinians and a German policeman were killed.
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A 1972 Corolla 1600 fastback.
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The Wiggle Stool by Frank Gehry, 1972. This stool is made from recycled corrugated cardboard with lacquered side panels. The appeal of modern design's spare lines and forms has combined with the desire to reduce, reuse and recycle, and the result is high-end, streamlined furniture and accessories for the home.
The Museum of Modern Art
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December 1972
A view of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew while traveling toward the Moon. The photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area, top, to the Antarctica South polar ice cap, made visible for the first time by the Apollo trajectory.
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