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These pictures have so much of impact, I must take the effort to post them here.
Settler woman struggling with Israeli security officers at Amona outpost in the West Bank February 1, 2006. Oded
Balilty, Israel, The Associated Press.World Press Photo Contest. The prize-winning entries were announced on
February 9, 2007
Falling man.
9/11. Nothing more to say. :|
9/11 Attacks
In the morning September 11, 2001, two hijacked passenger jets crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade
Center in New York City. This was no accident, but rather a series of attacks done by suicide bombers engaged with
the Al-Qaeda terrorist group
Flower Powe
The most lasting image from the last big march on the Pentagon, on October 21, 1967, survives in the collective
memory as summing up an era. Carnations in gun barrels were the essence of Flower Power.
Execution of Viet-cong
This picture was shot by Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer prize with it. The picture shows Nguyen Ngoc Loan,
South Vietnam¡¯s national police chief executing a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain.
Lynching of young blacks
This is a famous picture, taken in 1930, showing the young black men accused of raping a Caucasian woman and
killing her boyfriend, hanged by a mob of 10,000 white men.
Lunch@Skyscrapper
Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken
by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.
Assassination of Asanuma
This picture was taken only a second before the japanese socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated by
an right wing student.
JFK assassination
The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November
22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST (18:30 UTC). John F. Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots
while riding with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in a Presidential Motorcade.
I have a Dream!!
WASHINGTON, D.C.¡ªAt the climax of his ¡°I Have A Dream¡± speech, Martin Luther King Jr. raises his arm on the
steps of the Lincoln Memorial and calls out for deliverance with the electrifying words of an old Negro spiritual hymn,
¡°Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!¡±, 1963.
First flight
December 17, 1903 was the day humanity spread its wings and rose above the ground - for 12 seconds at first and
by the end of the day for almost a minute - but it was a major breakthrough. Orville and Wilbur Wright, two bicycle
mechanics from Ohio, are the pioneers of aviations, and although Alberto Santos-Dumont was the actual first flight
this photo is more well known.
When LIFE ran this stark, haunting photograph of a beach in Papua New Guinea on September 20, 1943,
Buchenwald camp
Absolutely no words.