Foto 1 is the pic of Lyndon B. Johnson being sworn in as The POTUS on board Air Force One after just 2 hours and 8 mins of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Standing next to him is Jacqueline Kennedy.
Foto 2 is the pic of a dramatic event that took place in 1957. In 1954, as a consequence of the US Supreme Court's judgment in Brown vs. Board of Education, segregation in public schools was declared unconstitutional. But Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus defied the judgment and went to the extent of deploying the state national guards to deny the 9 black students entry to Arkansas' Central High School at Little rock. That event captured in that foto is , in order to ensure that the landmark judgment is implemented President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to escort those 9 students into the school building. This foto captures their entry into the school.
Foto 3 is the pic which captures an event during the Cuban Missile Crisis. On October 25, 1962 an emergency meeting of the Security Council was convened to deal with the crisis. In that meeting Adlai Stevenson, US Amassador to UN confronted Valerin Zorin, Soviet Ambassador to UN by asking him whether USSR had installed any nuclear missiles in Cuba for which a negative answer was given by Zorin. Then Stevenson took out the satellite photos showing the location of Soviet missiles in Cuba and displayed it to the gathering and stunned the world. This event is called as the Adlai Stevenson moment.
Foto 4 is the pic which captures a game of chess during the World Chess Championship in 1972 between Bobby Fischer of USA and Boris Spassky of USSR during the cold war. Fisher won the World championship that year and till now remains the only American to win the World Chess Championship. The guy sitting to the right is Bobby Fisher.
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