Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-meter run at the 1968 Olympic Games, engage in a victory stand protest against...
During the award presentation for the Men’s 200-meter event final at the 1968 Summer Olympics, American athletes, gold medalist Tommie Smith and...
Sally Welford models one of the cape uniforms that will be worn by the guides during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Designed by Irma Dubost and...
Mexico City, Mexico- Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos, right, of the United States, raise gloved hands after receiving their Olympic Medals for...
Mexico City, Mexico-Cannons roar, fireworks blaze and the massed athletes of the competing nations fill the Olympic Stadium infield as the XIX...
The women of the United States Olympic team lead their male counterparts into the University City Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremonies of...
View of athletes from 112 nations lining up in the centre field during the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in...
Olympic medal winning, Afro-American atheletes for the 400 meters Lee Evans , Larry James , and Ron Freeman . The three wear black berets in sympathy...
Mexican Spectators Perched Atop The Bleachers In Order To Better Appreciate The Processions During The Opening Ceremony Of The Olympic Summer Games...
American athletes Lee Evans gives the Black Power Salute as he and Larry James of the United States lead the team off the track after the medal...
Mexico City: Mexico's Norma Enriqueta Basilio, the first woman in the history of the modern Olympic Games to light the Olympic Fire, runs up the...
Movie poster advertises the Italian release of the sports documentary '1968 Mexico Olympics,' 1968. It was directed by Alberto Isaac and the poster...
Mexico City: Ian Drimba of Rumania and Daniel Revenu of France in their Fencing Match, 1968 Olympics. Drimba won Gold medal and Revenu won the third...
Lee Evans, Larry James, and Ron Freeman of the United States, winners of the 400 meter run in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, stand on the podium...
View of the Olympic flame burning above the Olympic Stadium during the opening day of the Summer Olympics' track and field events, Mexico City,...
The final torch-bearer, Mexican track and field athlete Enriqueta Basilio , posing with the Olympic flame prior to becoming the first woman to light...
American athlete Bob Beamon breaks the Long Jump record at the 1968 Mexico Olympics, 20th October 1968. Keystone photographer Douglas Miller won...
Exterior views of Sports Place as it nears completion for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Olympic basketball will be played beneath the striking...
Workmen carry baskets of construction rubble from grandstand area of the Velodrome, where cycling events will be held during the 1968 summer Olympics.
American Bob Beamon stands on the victory stand after winning the long jump competition with a world-record jump at the 1968 Summer Olympics....
Jay Silvester of Smithfield, Utah, throws the discus 10/14 for a new Olympic record; 207 feet, 9-1/2 inches. His toss bettered the old mark of 200...
Suspended American Olympic star John Carlos scratches his head as he tells newsmen 10/19 that he'll leave Mexico 10/21 to return to school at San...
"Fisheye view"...Enriqueta Basilio brings Olympic Torch up 90 steps to light Olympic Fire during 10/12 opening ceremony of 1968 Olympics. She's the...
Sally Welford models one of the cape uniforms that will be worn by the guides during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Designed by Irma Dubost and...
Mexico City, Mexico: Wymoia Tyus of the U.S. Winning the women's 100 meter dash in the 1968 Olympics.
Richard Fosbury of the U.S., in his unusual "flip-flop" style, sets an Olympic record as he clears the bar in the high jump event at 7 feet, 4 1/2...
Mexico City, Mexico- George Foreman of Houston, TX, waves a small American flag after he won the Olympics heavyweight boxing gold medal to climax...
The winners of the men's 10,000 meter race standing on the podium after receiving the Summer Olympic Games' first medals in the Olympic Stadium,...
David Hemery leaps the final hurdle before taking the gold in the 400m hurdles at the ''68 Olympics in Mexico City.
Group of men and women in Tokyo, modelling the uniforms to be worn by the Japanese team at the Mexico City Olympic Games, 1968. Left to right: men's...
Bob Beamon of the United States leaps 29 feet, 2½ inches, 8.90m to win gold and set an Olympic record during the Men's Long Jump event at the XIX...
Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia performs on the asymmetrical bars to win a vote 9.90 points, of a possible perfect en, from the judges and a gold...
John Carlos and Tommie Smith, American Black sprint stars who were ordered by the U.S. Olympic Committee to leave the Olympic Village under...
Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia is tossed into the air by her fellow gymnasts after judges awarded her 9.90 of a possible ten pints in the uneven...
Homemade sign, reading "Down With Brundage," hangs from a window in the American dormitory at Olympic Village October 18th after the U.S. Olympic...
Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, sports a big grin and equally big Mexican sombrero at an Olympic soccer match.
Mexican versions of police "paddy wagons" are lined up across the street from the Olympic Stadium--just in case--as the 1968 Olympics get under way...
John Carlos and Tommie Smith, American Black sprint stars who were ordered by the U.S. Olympic Committee to leave the Olympic Village under...
John Carlos and Tommie Smith, American Black sprint stars who were ordered by the U.S. Olympic Committee to leave the Olympic Village under...
Street vendor sits on a curb near condominium apartments which comprise the Olympic Village. The apartments are being sold for occupancy after the...
Twenty-six-year-old Vera Caslavska, a student from Prague, won a Gold medal, for her performance in the Olympic gymnastic Floor Exercise competition....
Vera Caslavska of Czechoslovakia displays the four medals she won in Olympic gymnastic competition. Vera won three gold and one silver to add to the...
Workmen erect pedestal for the Olympic torch above a mosaic on the side of the Olympic Stadium at the University of Mexico. Torch will be lighted...
Workmen are busy at Olympic Village here preparing the dining rooms and dormitories for the Olympics to be held in Mexico City in October. Most of...
Workmen are busy finishing the 70 percent completed giant pool for the Olympics to be held here in October. Most of the other facilities are in a...
The USA’s Spencer Haywood lays one up against Yugoslavia in final game of the Olympic basketball competition 10/25. At left is Yugo’s Petar Skansi....
Mexico City, Mexico: British Olympic team medal winners L-R: Dave Hemery, gold for 1st place in 400 meter hurdles; Mrs. Sheila Sherwood, silver for...
Rumania's Viorica Viscopoleanu, one knee bandaged, leaps 22 feet, 4-1/2 inches to win an Olympic Gold Medal and better the official world and Olympic...
S Jim Ryun seems almost bored as he glances back to check his competition during the 1500 meter run semifinal 10/19. The man reckoned to be Ryan's...
Debbie Meyer of Sacramento, California, churns her way toward a new Olympic record in the women's 400-meter freestyle swimming competition 10/19. In...
Mexico City, Mexico: USA's Randy Matson of Pampa, Texas unsprings to toss the shot to bring the United States its first gold medal. He won the...
The U.S.A.'s Bill Toomey wins the 100-meter third heat, an event in the men's Decathlon, the most grueling of all Olympic events. Austria's Horst...
Silvana Asturias, Guatemala's Olympic swimming star and Mexico's Ricardo Scheffler, an Olympic rower, sit on wall under Olympic balloons.
S Al Oerter haves the discus for an Olympic record and an Olympic gold medal 10/15, with a throw of 212 feet, 6-1/2 inches. Oerter also won the...
Mexico City, Mexico: Rumania's Viorica Viscopoleanu, one knee bandaged, leaps 22 feet, 4 1/2 inches to win an Olympic gold medal and better the...
With thousands of spectators cheering the Olympic flame is carried onto Mexican territory 10/6 following it's 6 week journey by land and sea from Mr....
Mexico City, Mexico: Cathy Rigby of USA salutes the judges following her long horse vault during Olympic gymnastic competition, October 21. She's the...
