True Tales from the Bicentennial Year #7

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Dallas -- President Gerald Ford arrives at a Republican Party celebration after his debate against Gov. Jimmy Carter (1976)

True Tales from the Bicentennial Year #6

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Landing -- Father Thomas Trepasso explains to Joseph and Julia Quinlan the Mass that he will hold in honor of the couple's daughter, Karen Ann, whose birthday is March 29th. Karen Ann Quinlan has been kept alive by an artificial respirator for almost one year now. The desicion on the fate of the 22-year-old comatose woman is now in the hands of the New Jersey State Supreme Court. (1976)

True Tales from the Bicentennial Year #5

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New York -- Niozake Shange chats with Melvin Van Peebles at a party following the opening of her play, 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuff,' at New York's Booth Theater. Besides writing the play, Miss Shange is one of the cast of seven women appearing in it. Miss Shange's play first found theatrical life in a downtown bar, then moved to two Off-Broadway houses before moving up to Broadway. Melvin Van Peebles has also had a play, Ain't No Way to Die a Natural Death,' on Broadway. (1976)

True Tales from the Bicentennial Year #4

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Georgia -- Three men sit in front of a store window under a poster of Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia. Carter, who was born in this small Southern town, is running for the 1976 presidential election (1976)

True Tales from the Bicentennial Year #3

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Washington -- Three House members talk about the upcoming Congressional investigation into Marine Corps. recruiting and training practices. Several prominent reports of abuse and death among trainees, including the cases of Pvt. Harry Hancock and Pvt. Lynn McClure, who both died in training, caused there to be question of whether the Marine Corp was capable of making the radical changes that were needed to its past practices. House members said they have been assured of a Congressional investigation into Marine Corps recruiting and training practices that have allegedly resulted in death and injury to young men. (1976)

True Tales from the Bicentennial Year #2

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New York -- The US government and doctors have decided that the 10 million American women taking oral contraceptives are entitled to more information about possible side-effects of taking the "pill." Each package of Birth Control pills, such as this one, holds an information packet and it is well read. A recent survey showed that women would like even more information including more details on warnings and precautions. (1976)

True Tales from the Bicentennial Year #1

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New York -- One reaction to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, South Korean evangelist-industrialist, and his 'Bicentennial God Bless America Festival' is evident on some of the many posters pasted up all over New York City. The word "Hitler" is spray painted across several posters (1976)