Munich: Armed police drop into position on a terrace directly above the apartments where between nine and 26 members of the Israeli Olympic team are...
An armed police officer maintains surveillance in the Athletes' Village during the 1972 Munich Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, after...
Photographers gather after the Munich massacre, during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, West Germany, September 1972. Eleven members of the Israeli...
Dejected. Munich, West Germany: Dejected members of American basketball team sit on their bench after losing close game to USSR, in Olympic...
Munich, Germany. Olympic Stadium is packed with some 80,000 people as the finest amateur athletes in the world parade on the field below. Slide shows...
An armed police officer wearing a tracksuit and holding a Walther machine pistol drops to a lower level to maintain surveillance after Palestinian...
Police officers and Ministry of Interior officials attempt to negotiate with Palestinian terrorist group Black September for the release of hostages...
Authorities inspecting a balcony at the scene of the massacre during which eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed by Palestinian...
Armed guards stand by as caskets containing the bodies of Israeli Olympic athletes are loaded aboard a plane for flight to Tel Aviv. At the 1972...
Singer Mick Jagger of British rock group the Rolling Stones concert in concert at Wembley in London, UK, 1972.
English athlete David Hemery competes for the Great Britain team to finish in third place to win the bronze medal in the Men's 400 metres hurdles...
Munich: President of the International Olympic Committee Avery Brundage speaks at the Memorial ceremony in the Olympic stadium for the eleven members...
Arrested civilians are marched towards detention in the Bogside Area of Londonderry by British troops on Bloody Sunday 30th January 1972
Munich: U. S. Olympic basketball coach Hank Iba , argues with the Bulgarian referee after the USA-USSR Olympic championship basketball game here...
Don Shula, Coach of the Miami Dolphins speaks with Quarterback Bob Griese and Quarterback Earl Morrall during an NFL football game against the...
English rock group The Who performing at the Fete de l'Humanite music festival, Paris, 9th September 1972. Left to right: Roger Daltrey, Pete...
The royal family at Buckingham Palace, London, 1972. Left to right: Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Edward and...
Washington, DC. President Richard Nixon makes victory speech at a rally shortly after being elected to serve a second term by a landslide in the...
Munich, Germany. Happy Soviet players celebrate their win against USA in the exciting Olympic final game in basketball, giving the Soviets the gold...
Queen Elizabeth II and Charles, Prince of Wales travel in an open top car in Avignon during a state visit to France, May 1972.
Russian basketball players celebrate wildly here after scoring a 51-50 win over the United States very early on September 10th in the Olympic...
American sprinter John Smith, American sprinter Vince Matthews, and the Swiss team's doctor - and former American athlete - Dave James in...
Munich: An Arab guerrilla looks around after opening the door for a West German policewoman who is acting as a communicator between West German...
The England women's national football team pose before England Women's Football Team sports bags and a Mitre Multiplex football, alongside their...
Aerial view showing Olympic Stadium, designed by architect Gunther Behnisch and the engineer Frei Otto, under construction in the Olympiapark as...
Munich, Germany. Parading into the Olympic Stadium is the West German Olympic team, the host team for the XXth Olympic Games.
English singer, songwriter and pianist Elton John performs on the television music show 'Top of the Pops', 24th May 1972.
American President Richard Nixon with United States National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, circa 1972.
Munich, Germany. Olympic Stadium is packed with some 80,000 people as the finest amateur athletes in the world parade on the field below. Slide shows...
American President Richard Nixon sits opposite Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders at a conference in Moscow.
Harrison H Schmitt, pilot of the lunar module, stands on the lunar surface near the United States flag during NASA's final lunar landing mission in...
Mick Jagger & Rolling Stones performing at The Boston Garden July 18, 1972. Mick Taylor on guitar in background.
Munich: Two Munich policemen ward off a photographer as they escort an unidentified prisoner away from the Israeli team quarters at the Olympic...
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh with their sons Prince Andrew and Prince Edward at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, on their...
Kenneth Brown of Bohemia, New York, and his daughters Laura and Mary Beth stand at fence waiting for Richard Nixon to arrive at a campaign rally on...
President Richard Nixon addresses a crowd welcoming him to Guam on February 20, 1972. The president stopped in Guam for an overnight stay during his...
Photo of Bob Marley Jamaica, Bob Marley , L-R: Earl Lindo, Bob Marley, Carlton Barrett, Peter Tosh, Aston Family Man Barrett.
The Soviet Olympic basketball team won 51-50 in the final game against the United States, giving them the gold medal. Here is Aleksander Belov...
English singer Mick Jagger, of the Rolling Stones, during an interview in a record company office, London, 1972.
Press photographers take pictures as a man lays flowers next to a wreath placed beside the door to the Israel team's accomodation in the Olympic...
View of Olympiapark, the Olympic Park constructed for the 1972 Summer Olympics, Munich, Bavaria. Germany, 20th century.
Prince Philip, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands , Queen Elizabeth and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands before a state banquet at Windsor Castle,...
English rock group The Who performing at the Fete de l'Humanite music festival, Paris, 9th September 1972. Left to right: Roger Daltrey, John...
Civilians and soldiers gather to look at the wreckage of a United States B-52 bomber that had been shot down the previous night over Thuy Khe in the...
German slalom canoeist Siegbert Horn in action competing for the East Germany team to finish in first place gold medal position in the Men's slalom...
The Olympic flag flying at half mast inside the Olympiastadion during the memorial ceremony for the Israeli athletes and team members killed by the...
British sprinter Jannette Roscoe breaks clear of the pack to eventually finish second behind American sprinter Kathy Hammond in the second heat of...
Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins, London, UK, 2nd October 1972. He is set to appear as Macbeth alongside Diana Rigg for the National Theatre.
An upended tank among the rubble of damaged buildings in No-Mans Land in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam, 19th August 1972.
