The little-known story behind the Apollo 11 party pictures taken for TIME in 1969
A few of his pictures appeared in the July 25, 1969, issue, accompanying the cover story on the moon landing, but the vast majority of the photos he took that day—of revelers parked on the side of the highway near the Indian River in Titusville, Fla., cooking over fires and playing folk music on guitars—were not published. Now, 50 years later, several of those images are making their first appearance in the pages of TIME. “It was the most unorganized organized event I think I’ve ever been to,” Burnett recalls.
This story is from the July 29, 2019 edition of TIME Magazine.
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