# What Was On The Cover Of "Time" When You Were Born? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234 "2005-06-14T16:27:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/61 "2005-06-14T19:15:23Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > [The Truth About J. Edgar Hoover](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,24-12-1975,00.html) > > I’m neither an FBI agent or a cross-dresser, but I find it amusing, nonetheless. Ri-i-i-i-i-i-ght. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/62 "2005-06-14T19:27:34Z")
[The Supertourist: Temple Fielding](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,04-06-1969,00.html). The beginning of the linked article is no help in explaining who the hell this oddly-drawn man is. Apparently he said “As a member of an escorted tour, you don’t even have to know the Matterhorn isn’t a tuba.” (Thanks, Google!) That seems to be the most (or possibly the only) interesting thing about this schmoe. I smell a metaphor about my own life, and frankly, sir, I don’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/63 "2005-06-14T20:07:24Z")
**Time:** [The New York Mets: Baseball’s Wunderkinder](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,01-09-1969,00.html) (starring a kid with a jiffy-pop brain) **Life:** [Peter Max: Portrait of the artist as a very rich man](http://www.life.com/Life/covers/1969/cv090569.html) (possibly the 'zine-iest cover they ever did) ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/64 "2005-06-14T21:09:21Z")
> [@xbuckeye](#): > > But [this](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101781204,00.html) is what was happening as I first gazed upon this earth. At 15, I remember that cover all to vividly and all the coverage that went with it…the footage of the helicopter flying overhead taking pictures and recording it. I think that was my first time that I had seen pictures of dead people of that magnitude if not at all. > [@delphica](#): > > [Man on the Moon](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101690725,00.html) ! > > Most of the newspapers and magazines I have seen from my birth date feature that story, and I have always been a little secretly (and pointlessly) proud of sharing my birthday with news that significant. Good thing your mom didn’t hold back a [week later.](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101690801,00.html) As for me: Time had [Averell Harriman.](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101630802,00.html) Life had some LA guy named [Sandy.](http://www.life.com/Life/covers/1963/cv080263.html) ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/65 "2005-06-14T21:20:10Z")
[General Suharto](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101660715,00.html) and how the commies lost Indonesia. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/66 "2005-06-14T21:28:58Z")
[Lyndon Johnson](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101631129,00.html) Apparently they decided to forgo JFK’s “After” pics… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/67 "2005-06-14T21:38:56Z")
> [@Dob](#): > > [The New Sound of Country Rock](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,16-01-1970,00.html) > > Less than exciting month… Your birthday is January 12 as well? Lovely, if so - mine is but I guess they didn’t have a cover for that day. Anyway, here is what turned up: [A 1968 Tribute](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,12-01-1988,00.html). It’s cool because that is my favorite single year in modern history that I have studied, even though I never got a chance to live it. Great graphics, too. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/68 "2005-06-14T21:52:31Z")
The day after I was born was [The 80’s Look! Brooke Shields](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101810209,00.html) She looks gorgeous as always but I could do without the ‘gag me with a spoon’ lacey crap. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/69 "2005-06-14T22:05:38Z")
[Playboy’s Hugh Hefner](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,27-02-1967,00.html) :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/70 "2005-06-14T22:06:20Z")
Buncha [Republican](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101661118,00.html) midterm election winners. And me a Democrat. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/71 "2005-06-14T22:06:52Z")
My cover was [Gross](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,15-11-1963,00.html). ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/72 "2005-06-14T22:08:50Z")
Someone with a rather disturbing[getup.](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,21-12-1978,00.html) No clue who he is. And apparently he’s bigger news than the Shah of Iran (shortly before his overthrow). :eek: Bueller? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/73 "2005-06-14T22:16:10Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Buncha [Republican](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101661118,00.html) midterm election winners. And me a Democrat. Sheesh. Yeah, I was worried Raygun was going to be on mine. I lucked out with Brooke Shields. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/74 "2005-06-14T22:17:52Z")
Happy birthday, **Balle\_M**! Mine is [Uber lame](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101710726,00.html). Nixon and Kissinger headed to Peking. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/75 "2005-06-14T22:27:39Z")
[Mr Kappel, the Chairman of AT&T, the world’s biggest company](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,25-05-1964,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/76 "2005-06-14T22:29:27Z")
Mine was the [North Vietnamese victory](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,10-05-1975,00.html). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/77 "2005-06-14T22:33:05Z")
[The US Atomic Aresenal](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101630823,00.html) Sometimes a missile is just a missile… ---
**Author:** ![Airblairxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Airblairxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airblairxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/78 "2005-06-14T22:40:28Z")
I get [Henry Kissinger.](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,1101690214,00.html) Lucky me. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/79 "2005-06-14T22:42:42Z")
Cool! [Rowan and Martin](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,12-10-1968,00.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234/80 "2005-06-14T22:53:12Z")
[Somebody Set Us Up the Bomb](http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,04-06-1985,00.html) Inside: at least two articles featuring Philip Glass and speculation over whether designer Hawaiian shirts will become the next big trend. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-on-the-cover-of-time-when-you-were-born/308234.md?page=5)