--- title: 1967: Vietnam, Hippies, Race Riots, and More, Pictured by LIFE Magazine Photographers description: The photos in this gallery are not meant to represent "the best" pictures made by LIFE's photographers that year. Instead, in their variety of style and theme, they illustrate the fluid, volatile new world that countless millions were struggling to come to grips with, and to safely navigate, throughout the charged days, weeks and months of that long, strange year of '67. canonical: https://time.com/3871232/1967-pictures-from-a-pivotal-year/ author: Ben Cosgrove article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2012-02-15T13:23:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:56.494Z og:title: 1967: Vietnam, Hippies, Race Riots, and More, Pictured by LIFE Magazine Photographers og:description: The photos in this gallery are not meant to represent "the best" pictures made by LIFE's photographers that year. 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How people respond to the decade’s grip on the national imagination, on the other hand — well, that’s a bit more problematic. Some find it heartening that the Sixties still resonate at all, with men and women who lived through those years and millions more who were born long after the decade ended; others decry the fact (or what they see as the fact) that the ideals of the era have been irretrievably co-opted by the triumph of turbocharged consumerism; still others find the entire mythology of the Age of Aquarius utterly obnoxious and tiresome, and can not wait for the Woodstock Generation to, quite frankly, die off. But even the most ardent Sixties-bashers can sometimes find themselves inexorably drawn to the era — or, as the case may be, to one specific, pivotal year. Take 1967\. There was an awful lot going on in the U.S. and around the world at the time. The war in Vietnam was only getting bloodier. Race riots rocked American cities. Baseball fans reveled in one of the most exciting pennant races in history. A young comedian named Woody Allen was killing in Vegas. Iran crowned a new Shah. The “counterculture,” in all its protean forms, was in full bloom. Hippies were flooding to San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury — soon to be followed by far more toxic forces (meth and heroin, for example, and the casualties that customarily follow in their wake) that would effectively bring an ugly end to the “Summer of Love” almost before it began. The photos in this gallery are not meant to represent “the best” pictures made by LIFE’s photographers in 1967\. Instead, in their variety of style and theme, they illustrate the fluid, volatile new world that millions were struggling to come to grips with, and to somehow safely navigate, throughout the charged weeks and months of that long, strange year.  An American machine gunner on patrol by helicopter over Vietnam's Mekong Delta in 1967. Larry Burrows—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Woody Allen (better known as a stand-up comedian than a filmmaker) plays his clarinet in a Las Vegas hotel room, 1967. Bill Ray—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  A store owner guards his property in Detroit during the 1967 riots, behind a sign he made that, he hoped, might help spare his shop from attack by roving mobs. Lee Balterman—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  An astronaut descends the ladder of a life-sized, model lunar module during a simulation of a moon landing, 1967. Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Contact sheet with the last strips of film found in LIFE photographer Paul Schutzer's camera after he was killed while traveling with Israeli soldiers during the Six-Day War in 1967\. Schutzer was killed by a 57mm Egyptian shell that hit the vehicle he was riding in on June 5, 1967\. He was 37 years old. Paul Schutzer—Time & Life Pictures  Grinning Israeli soldiers give the thumbs up in one of the very last pictures taken by photographer Paul Schutzer before he was killed during the Six-Day War in 1967. Paul Schutzer—Time & Life Pictures  College basketball star Lew Alcindor (UCLA) — all 7 feet, 2 inches of him — is fitted for trousers with a 51-inch inseam. Bill Ray—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Eastern Orthodox Church Patriarch Athenagoras I, Archbishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), visits a sick member of the church, 1967. Carlo Bavagnoli—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Novelist Harold Robbins ("the man who turns sex and adventure into cash," according to LIFE) and his family, wife Grace and daughter Adrianna, at their villa in the hills above Cannes, France, in 1967. Loomis Dean—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Carl and Shirley Stokes walk through the snow on their way to vote in the Cleveland mayoral race in November 1967\. Stokes, 40 years old at the time, defeated Seth Taft (grandson of the former president) to become the first-ever African American mayor of a major U.S. city. Lee Balterman—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  American soldiers of 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry, 173rd Airborne Division gear up for a long range patrol during Operation Junction City, a massive 1967 search and destroy operation in Vietnam conducted in hopes of clearing People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam units from the area northeast of the capital of Saigon. Co Rentmeester—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Actress Mia Farrow, a.k.a., Mrs. Frank Sinatra, ready for a night out in New York in 1967. Bill Eppridge—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Unpublished. Vietnam protesters at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco during one of many rallies around the country as part of the April 1967 "Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam." Ralph Crane—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Boston's Carl Yastrzemski displays the intensity that won him the 1967 American League MVP award, the Triple Crown (.326 average, 44 home runs, 121 RBIs — the last time any player led either league in all three categories), and ultimately helped him carry the Sox to the AL pennant. They would, however, lose the Series to the Cardinals in seven games — three of which were won by the great, and even more intense, St. Louis pitcher, Bob Gibson. Jerry Brimacombe—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  The great American novelist James Jones (From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, Go to the Widow-Maker) in his art-filled Paris home in 1967. Loomis Dean—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  The Shah of Iran, Mohammad Shah Pahlavi, poses with his son, Prince Reza, and wife, Farah, following his coronation in 1967. Dmitri Kessel—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images  Jerry Orbach gestures toward co-stars Rudy Challenger and Jennifer Warren during rehearsals for the 1967 Off-Broadway hit, Scuba Duba. Ralph Morse—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3871232/1967-pictures-from-a-pivotal-year/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3871232/1967-pictures-from-a-pivotal-year/"},"headline":"1967: Pictures From a Pivotal Year","datePublished":"2012-02-15T13:23:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:56.494Z","description":"The photos in this gallery are not meant to represent \"the best\" pictures made by LIFE's photographers that year. 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