Photos That Shook The World (Contains graphic images, may cause distress)

jd007

Photo of the IMF in Dublin. Dunno bout the world but its shook our country

CrazyRabbit

Ryan White was a 'poster child' for AIDS education in the 1980's after he become infected with HIV through a blood transfusion he received to treat his haemophilia.
He and his family suffered horrendous prejudice due to his illness, including shots being fired at his house and constant harassment/threats.

He gained fame in his fight to be allowed back in school, and was championed by many famous stars including Michael Jackson and Elton John. Michael Jackson's song 'Gone too soon' was inspired by Ryan.

Ryan's plight led to several pieces of key legislation being created which helps low-income AIDs/HIV victims, and the media attention greatly accelerated education regarding HIV/AIDs.

More on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6YOlJHjcXw
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White

RIP Ryan

Healium

Pic from the march today, thought it was quite powerful

marko93

Whole weekend looking through this thread, some amazing and eye opening things. Keep it up lads

imwatchingyou

marko93 wrote: »

Whole weekend looking through this thread, some amazing and eye opening things. Keep it up lads

same here,i spent hours on this thread,one of the best threads on boards

majiktripp

Pike River Mining Disater here in NZ

Tried to find something that could sum it up as a photo that shook the world, so close after the Chile mining incident and triumphant conclusion to that and the jubilation that brought. This on the other hand was the complete opposite.
This was the best I could find, as I feel its a very moving photo in its own way.

citizen_p

June 26th, Cork, Ireland. JFKs motorcade
JFK is the only catholic president and the first irish american president which was probly the main reson for the visit.
not as earth shaking as the cuban missle crisis and his assasination.
(both of which have already been covered in this thread)

rebel10

^^^
That photo is fantastic, have never seen it before, saw one of him on the South Mall, but not as good as that. Its so clear and the amazing thing is that even after all the changes on Patrick st. over the years, you could be convinced that it was taken yesterday! If that makes sense.:o

citizen_p

Killing of AWB in 1994
Key Themes
1. Bophuthatswana coup d'état of 1994
2.AWB

(I hope this hasnt been covered already in this thread)

Wikipedia wrote:

Killing of Wolfaardt, Uys and Fourie
The single most publicised event of the coup was the killing of three wounded AWB members who were shot dead at point-blank range in front of journalists by a Bophuthatswana police constable, Ontlametse Bernstein Menyatsoe.

AWB Colonel Alwyn Wolfaardt, AWB General Nicolaas Fourie and Veldkornet (Field Cornet) Jacobus Stephanus Uys were driving a blue Mercedes at the end of a convoy of AWB vehicles, firing into a crowd of Bophuthatswanan civilians. Members of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force returned fire and hit the driver of the car, Nicolaas Fourie, in the neck, another gunman, Alwyn Wolfaardt, in the arm and the remaining gunman, Jacobus Uys, in the leg. Wolfaardt got out of the car and waved a pistol but was advised by nearby journalists not to start shooting. A Bophuthatswana police officer relieved him of the weapon. Another policeman tried to fire on journalists but his rifle jammed and it was taken from him by yet another policeman. Menyatsoe approached and spoke to Wolfaardt, asking if he was a member of the AWB. Wolfaardt confirmed this, saying they came from Naboomspruit, and pleaded for his life and the lives of the other two wounded AWB members. Menyatsoe then shot the three wounded men dead at point blank range with an R4 rifle, saying "what are you doing in my country?". The shooting was captured by the watching journalists and broadcast worldwide.

.................................**Warning**
..........all photos/videos that follow contain Dead bodies
.....................(note to mods, please apply spoiler tags if you deem it appropriate)








video of the incident
this should be viewed to get an insight into the incident
skip to 3:30 for the back story of the incident
skip to 4:40 to get the main incident

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPvuAVO2-NI

(sorry about the watermark only version i could find)





ps. Ive come across a few more graphic photos i didnt post and quite a few racist sites, understandable as the AWB is In My Opinion (and that of most others) racially idelogic group.

also the photos are from various sources and i have tried to arrange them in chronological order, based on the video and location of the bodies. i also tried to avoid heavily wathermarked images, altough i could find no alternative to some

furiousox

Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, USAF, survived more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. He steps off the plane, and hesitates. His wife, Loretta Stirm and their children Lori, 15, Robert, 14, Cynthia, 13, and Roger, 12, all rush forward to greet him.

newmug

Mousey- wrote: »

Killing of AWB in 1994
<SNIP>
No need to quote it all

The bloody neck of those AWB! They opened fire on the civilian crowd, and then begged for an ambulance when they were wounded by the returning army fire!

I watched the rest of the documentary, very interesting. I remember it all happening at the time, good stuff Mousey

Son Of A Vidic

Not an image that changed the world, but an image with a powerful anti-drugs message.

DrumSteve

I really wish this thread was updated more... its the best thread on here.

greenmachine88

Leeg17

What's the 3rd one about?

Son Of A Vidic

Leeg17 wrote: »

What's the 3rd one about?

The last image in question is from the terror attacks in Mumbai, India on the 26/11/08. The guy in the image is Ajmal Kasab, he was the only terrorist who was captured alive.

citizen_p

thats the thing about this thread, you never really know whats been done before, Malboro Man Fallujah and Columbine have definetly been done before, and i assume so has Mumbai.

I enjoy looking these stories up. Its just hard to find stories which havn't been posted 6 or 7 times before.

Leeg17 wrote: »

What's the 3rd one about?

Mumbai Terror Attacks
Wikipedia on it

Ajmal Kasab and one more attacker at the station

After the attack on the train station where more than 50 were shot


Bodies at the station



(again about bodies, Mods please convert to links etc... if you deem necessary, I find no point however in skipinging over he loss of life)
Bombing of taxis

Oberoi Trident Hotel burning

Infograph on the hotel
Police on the streets

Police,
Notice the bolt action lee enfield rifles compared to the AK 47s brandished by the terrorists. poice and army also had modern
weapons, mp5s, modern rifles etc... but i found that point interesting

Terrorists

foxyboxer

One of the iconic photographs in Sport.
Ben Hogan's 1-iron at Merion. Coming 16 months after a near-fatal car crash.



http://espn.go.com/sportscentury/features/00014232.html

I always found it amazing how 10 people were able to bring a city with a population of 13,830,884 (from Wikipedia) to its knees essentially. Those images were truly harrowing.



This is probably the strongest one of all.

Kylo Ren

Carlsberg don't do threads....

Manic Moran

1982 has been mentioned before, but this one wasn't posted that I can find.



Photos of HMS Sheffield burning and sinking brought the world into the realisation that there really was a war going on in the South Atlantic, and it wasn't going to be pleasant.

Though the event happened after ARA General Belgrano's sinking, the photos of Sheffield reached the world first. Plus, prior to that, there was a sentiment that the British Empire were beating up on a poor, relatively defenceless, two-bit banana military.



On other matters...

A new dawn of warfare. "Mother", the Tank, Mk1.


Halabja



Srebenica. An embarassment of the West.



Bamiyan

I always found it amazing how 10 people were able to bring a city with a population of 13,830,884 (from Wikipedia) to its knees essentially.

A recent court case in California had the judge musing on the fact that for all the problems inherent with the American right to bear arms, in the event of a Mumbai-style assault, the people would at least have a fighting chance and the damage would be more contained.

[Edit. Found it. Judge Gould in Nordyke vs King.

We recently saw in the case of the terrorist attack on Mumbai that terrorists may enter a country covertly by ocean routes, landing in small craft and then assembling to wreak havoc. That we have a lawfully armed populace adds a measure of security for all of us and makes it less likely that a band of terrorists could make headway in an attack on any community before more professional forces arrived.

NTM

wonderfulname

I can't believe I got through the whole thread! I don't think I can run off now without making my own contribution;
Is it just me or did he seem so much bigger at the time?Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel PearlWith all the footie photos here I can't believe this didn't make it. Section of the LHC, it shook the world when some ejits got a bit liberal with the term probability in relation to black holes.
All the above came from here, theres way more if you care to take a look, some have already been posted."Marooned flood victims looking to escape grab the side bars of a hovering Army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province August 7, 2010."

Women voting in New Zealand in 1899.
Pretty unusual at the time...

partyatmygaff

A terrible start to 2011 - Church bombing in Alexandria

af_thefragile

Rawanda Genocide. About 800,000 men, women and children perished!




The infamous photograph of the starving African child.

Hogzy

that african child photo has been posted wayyy too many times in fairness.

citizen_p

Battle of the Bulge
it certainly shocked the allies and was the last big offensive of the germans in the west.

Poteau Ambush
on December 18, 1944 the 14th US Cavalry Group, was ambushed by Kampfgruppe Hansen.
the photos and films that follow were captured by the americans from a Waffen-SS war correspondent. the shots were posed for after the ambush, but seem to have been just hours after.

a US newsreel
this is from the time and not a modern documentery.
3:45 to 4.35 is the ambush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev6FIlexpsE

Poteau Ambush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E22UGMjpQx8

Another film from after the ambush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9EkaeaX7E8

Aerial shot of the ambush
Numbers correspond to the following images


1. the standing soldier is wearing a captured US coat

2.A famous shot, he can be seen in the third video above also

3.

4. same soldier as image 2, notice also the captured pistol

5.

6. sodier on the right has a captured m1 carbine, seen again below

7.

8. burning jeeps


Cameraman filming

Captured Rifle m1 carbine

Smoking

Another famous shot of the ambush

Resting

Jagdpanzer IV


limited to 15 images so a few had to be cut

af_thefragile

Didn't shake the world, but changed our understanding of our place in the universe forever.

Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Every spec of light you see is an entire galaxy!!

All of this in an area not bigger than the size of your palm on your outstretched arm covering the sky.

Sykk

I'm 58 pages through and my heart is just broken..

PomBear

For the day that's in it!
This was taken in Alabama in February 1956, when Martin Luther King King was 27 years old, following his arrest at the Montgomery Bus Boycott.