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...
American track and field athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos, first and third place winners in the 200 meter race, protest with the Black Power...
The medal presentation for the Men’s 200 metres final at the 1968 Summer Olympics, American athletes, gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist...
Mexico City, Mexico-Cannons roar, fireworks blaze and the massed athletes of the competing nations fill the Olympic Stadium infield as the XIX...
Mexico City, Mexico- Tommie Smith, center, and John Carlos, right, of the United States, raise gloved hands after receiving their Olympic Medals for...
During the award presentation for the Men’s 200 metres event final at the 1968 Summer Olympics, American athletes, gold medalist Tommie Smith and...
Mexican Spectators Perched Atop The Bleachers In Order To Better Appreciate The Processions During The Opening Ceremony Of The Olympic Summer Games...
The women of the United States Olympic team lead their male counterparts into the University City Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremonies of...
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....
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...
Exterior views of Sports Place as it nears completion for the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Olympic basketball will be played beneath the striking...
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...
Mexico City, Mexico: Cathy Rigby of USA salutes the judges following her long horse vault during Olympic gymnastic competition, October 21. She's the...
Mexico City: Great Britain's Sheila Sherwood in Long Jump event of the 1968 Olympics. She placed second.
Mexico City: Bob Seagren of the United States in his final record-breaking pole vault, in the 1968 Olympics. He won the first place Gold medal.
Mexico City: Miloslava Rezkova of Czechoslovakia goes over bar on her way to winning the Gold medal in the Women's High Jump event of the 1968...
Mexico City: Rumania's Viorica Viscopoleanu in Long Jump event for which she won the first place Gold medal, in the 1968 Olympics.
Mexico City, Mexico: The U.S.A. Olympic team marches into Olympic Stadium during opening ceremonies of the 1968 Olympics.
American high jumper Dick Fosbury clears the bar on his third attempt at the 1968 Summer Games in Mexico City. Fosbury won the gold medal with this...
Mexico City, Mexico: Wymoia Tyus of the U.S. Winning the women's 100 meter dash in the 1968 Olympics.
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...
Olympic medal winning, Afro-American atheletes for the 400 meters Lee Evans , Larry James , and Ron Freeman . The three wear black berets in sympathy...
Dick Fosbury of the USA clears the bar in the high jump competiton with his dramtic new jumping style. Few competitors have had such a dramatic...
Tommie Smith of the USA wins the men's 200 metres final at the Olympic Games in Mexico City, 16th October 1968. Bronze medallist John Carlos, also of...
Jim Ryun of the United States crosses the line to take silver ahead of Bodo Tummler of West Germany in the Men's 1,500 metres event of the XIX Summer...
Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, sports a big grin and equally big Mexican sombrero at an Olympic soccer match.
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...
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...
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...
Silvana Asturias, Guatemala's Olympic swimming star and Mexico's Ricardo Scheffler, an Olympic rower, sit on wall under Olympic balloons.
Mexico City: Wolfgang Nordwig of East Germany vaulting in the 1968 Olympics. He won the third place bronze medal in the medal.
Mexico City, Mexico- Mildrette Netter of Rosedale, Mississippi passes the baton to teammate Myomia Tyus of Griffin, Georgia, during the women's...
Spencer Haywood of Detroit, the star of the USA's 65-50 victory over Tugoslavia, stuffs another two points for the USA their Olympic Championships...
Mexico City: East Germany's Roland Matthes and Charles Hickcox of the USA catapult from the start of the men's 100 meters backstroke final of the...
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...
Richard Fosbury of Medford, Oregon, lands on his head here after clearing 7 feet 2 3/4 inches in the high jump. Fosbury who slides over the crossbar...
Physiologist Jack Daniels sits atop auto holding an oxygen measuring device which records the breathing of bemasked runner Bob Williams, as he jogs...
Debbie Meyer, the 16-year-old Miss America of Olympic swimming, displays 3 Gold Medals she's won for the 200 meter, 400 meter and 800 meter freestyle.
Mexico City, Mexico: Wyomia Tyus of the U.S., first place winner in the 100 meter dash, stands in the rain and walks off the field with her two...
Mexico City: Jeno Kamuti of Hungary fencing against Jean Mangnan of France, in the 1968 Olympics. Kamuti won the second place Silver medal.
Mexico City: Russia's Tatiana Talysheva in Long Jump event of 1968 Olympics in which she won the third place bronze medal.
Mexico City: Klaus Dibiasi of Italy in Springboard Diving final event that won him the second place Silver medal, Oct. 1968 Olympics.
Mexico City, Mexico- George Foreman of Houston, TX, waves a small American flag after he won the Olympics heavyweight boxing gold medal to climax...
Charlie Scott of the University of North Carolina drives in for a layup after a play making assist from Jo Jo White during USA-Brazil Olympic...
Woman walking past the cupola of The Sports Palace in Mexico which will be used to host indoor events such as basketball during the Mexico Olympic...
Movie poster advertises the Italian release of the sports documentary '1968 Mexico Olympics,' 1968. It was directed by Alberto Isaac and the poster...
Eventual gold medallist Kipchoge Keino of Kenya leads Oleg Rayko of the Soviet Union , Andre Dehertoghe of Belgium , John Whetton of Great Britain...
Action during the final change-over of the Women's 4 x 100 metres relay event with, in lane 4, gold medallist Wyomia Tyus of the United States about...
Kenyan athlete Kipchoge Keino is congratulated by team mate Ben Jipcho after finishing in first place in an Olympic record time to win the gold medal...
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...
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...
