Iconic photos through time

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Starving Boy and Missionary

Just .... wrong.

 

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“Wait For Me Daddy,” by Claude P. Dettloff in New Westminster, Canada, October 1, 1940

 

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Robert Mitchum/Cape Fear 1962 (great movie):

 

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tsunami in 2004 in Thiland and 12 other countries, over 227,00 people died and 50,000 never found

 

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Atom Bomb. One of the worst (if not THE worst) inventions of all time:

 

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December 5, 1983 Statue of Liberty flanked by the twin towers.

 

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Wanted poster for Al Capone

 

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Ruby Bridges, being escorted to an all-white school.

**everything I read says "to" - but to me it looks like she is leaving**

 

[Amelia]

20 of the First Photographs of Things, from People to Hoaxes to the Moon

 

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Twiggy

 

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Kent State Massacre - 4 Dead in Ohio The tipping point at home for the end of the Vietnam War. I remember when this happened. It was terrible! College students at Kent State were shot by the police while protesting the Vietnam War.

That is truly an iconic photo from the anti-war movement. And I believe you're correct in saying it was a tipping point. It really focused America's attention on the worth and cost of the War. And set a scale for use of violence by authority that still resonates today. (And not to be picky but it was the Ohio National Guard that did the firing.)

This clip details how unnecessary the shootings were.

"The shootings killed four students and wounded nine. Two of the four students killed, Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller, had participated in the protest, and the other two, Sandra Scheuer and William Knox Schroeder, had been walking from one class to the next at the time of their deaths. Schroeder was also a member of the campus ROTC battalion. Of those wounded, none was closer than 71 feet (22 m) to the guardsmen. Of those killed, the nearest (Miller) was 225 feet (69 m) away, and their average distance from the guardsmen was 345 feet"

 

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A giant dust storm blacks out the sky of Goodwell, Okla., during the Dust Bowl.

 

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1906 San Francisco earthquake

 

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Nuff said

And...

 

[Amelia]

The image of firefighter Chris Fields holding the dying infant Baylee Almon won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1996.Two people, Lester LaRue and Charles Porter, standing just three feet apart took almost the same image yet it was Charles Porter’s image that won the Pulitzer.

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Winston Churchill's wedding day September 12, 1908

 

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1960 Woolworth's, protesting segregation