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

Feeky Magee

Iconic pictures are more effective then any story. Sometimes you see photographs that just take your breath away. The following photos; some famous, some infamous, did exactly that to me on first viewing. They will live on, as a permanent reminder of the events which caused them.

Tienemen Square Protest:

9/11:

Mai Lai Massacre:

Soviet Flag Over Reichstag:

Vietnam Shooting:

Afghan Girl:

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Saddam Hussein Captured:

Hindenberg:

Ali:

Rosa Parks:

Fake Bigfoot:

Marilyn Monroe:

Earthrise:

Feel free to add your own!

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misty floyd

CCCP^ wrote: »

Criminals are Made, not Born.

:eek: that is shocking stuff. I had a read on wiki there: Kehoe's mother died when he was young, and his father remarried. Reportedly, Kehoe often fought with his stepmother. When he was fourteen, an accident at the oil stove set his stepmother on fire. Andrew threw a bucket of water on her which, because the fire was oil-based, spread the flames more rapidly over her body. She later died from the injuries :eek:

CCCP^

misty floyd wrote: »

:eek: that is shocking stuff. I had a read on wiki there: Kehoe's mother died when he was young, and his father remarried. Reportedly, Kehoe often fought with his stepmother. When he was fourteen, an accident at the oil stove set his stepmother on fire. Andrew threw a bucket of water on her which, because the fire was oil-based, spread the flames more rapidly over her body. She later died from the injuries :eek:

It's very disturbing, I've read varying accounts that he let her burn or that he set her on fire but it's impossible to tell. He was a real monster. The sign he left was the scariest part of it all, he knew they would find it, and that would be his statement, what was he trying to say? Was he saying that society turned him into this homicidal maniac or his family made him this way?

a-k-47

CCCP^ wrote: »

It's very disturbing, I've read varying accounts that he let her burn or that he set her on fire but it's impossible to tell. He was a real monster. The sign he left was the scariest part of it all, he knew they would find it, and that would be his statement, what was he trying to say? Was he saying that society turned him into this homicidal maniac or his family made him this way?

Guess he was saying he wasnt born evil?.

El Weirdo

Fantastic thread.

...On August 16, 1960, he (Joseph Kittinger) made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled up to twice its normal size. He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere. These are still current USAF records, but were not submitted for aerospace world records to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior

And a video here.

jackthekipper

El Weirdo wrote: »

Fantastic thread.

...On August 16, 1960, he (Joseph Kittinger) made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled up to twice its normal size. He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere. These are still current USAF records, but were not submitted for aerospace world records to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior

And a video here.

That's faster than a drunk, seioursly amazing.

GiftofGab

El Weirdo wrote: »

Fantastic thread.

...On August 16, 1960, he (Joseph Kittinger) made the final jump from the Excelsior III at 102,800 feet (31,300 m). Towing a small drogue chute for initial stabilization, he fell for four minutes and 36 seconds, reaching a maximum speed of 614 mph (988 km/h or 274 m/s) before opening his parachute at 18,000 feet (5,500 m). Pressurization for his right glove malfunctioned during the ascent, and his right hand swelled up to twice its normal size. He set historical numbers for highest balloon ascent, highest parachute jump, longest drogue-fall (four minutes), and fastest speed by a human being through the atmosphere. These are still current USAF records, but were not submitted for aerospace world records to the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kittinger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Excelsior

And a video here.

That was done in 1962!! 7 years before Neil Armstrong landed on the moon!! Amazing. That guy had some balls

Reginald P. DuM

Meet Roy C. Sullivan.

[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]US Park Ranger Roy C. Sullivan from Virginia holds the record for the person most times struck by lightning - and living to tell the tale. Between 1942 and 1983, Roy has the dubious distinction of being struck by lightning seven times. He was known as the Human Lightning Rod. The above photo shows the lightening damage to his ranger hat after strike number 5. Staggering probabilities, even more staggering survival odds, truly shocking.
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SpitfireIV

Polish Pole vault jumper Władysław Kozakiewicz.

Kozakiewicz made the gesture to Russian spectators in the stadium during the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The crowd supporting Soviet jumper Konstantin Volkov booed, hissed, jeered, and whistled during Kozakiewicz's spectacular performance. Having just secured his gold medal position, Kozakiewicz made the gesture in defiance to the Soviet crowd.

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The official response of the Polish government was that the gesture had been an involuntary muscle spasm caused by his exertion.Nice one!

OutlawPete

Cannibalism in the Andes Mountains

On a Friday the 13th in 1972 a plane carring a famous Rugby Team from Uruguay to Chile crashed in the Andes Mountains.

There were 45 people on board in total.

19 Died instantly leaving 26 stuck in the Andes with only the food on board.

16 surrvived but in the next two months and two weeks they reluctantly resorted to eating the dead passangers.

If you want to know more, read the book or watch the movie ..

deadhead13

The execution of Ruth Snyder - Sing Sing prison New York, 1928.

It is the only photograph ever taken of a state sanctioned execution in the US. A tabloid newspaper photographer took it with a concealed camera. The image was published on the front page of the New York Daily News under the headline "DEAD!"

Snyder was convicted of murdering her husband.

lyda

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Sorry to spoil the party, but at least two of those are apparently the biggest cons in history, one completely out of context, one 100% faked.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2QxNWY0N2ZkY2IxMWJhZGQ4MTU3ZjhlZjg3NTk0NzE=

You're not only quoting The National Review, you're quoting an article written Jonah Goldberg who is an utter fool.

The picture is accurate. It was a South Vietnamese military officer summarily executing a prisoner. The lesson most sane people learned from Vietnam is that other countries have no business messing around in other countries internal conflicts[0] - certainly not with their military. The lesson American conservatives learned was that the liberal media ruined a perfectly good war.

And that Jonah Goldberg article is a perfect example of that.

[0] For instance, would the US civil war have turned out better or worse if Britain and France had intervened?

Jeege

Well.. It shocked the public sector anyway

:D:D

Ciaran500

lyda wrote: »

You're not only quoting The National Review, you're quoting an article written Jonah Goldberg who is an utter fool.

The picture is accurate. It was a South Vietnamese military officer summarily executing a prisoner. The lesson most sane people learned from Vietnam is that other countries have no business messing around in other countries internal conflicts[0] - certainly not with their military. The lesson American conservatives learned was that the liberal media ruined a perfectly good war.

And that Jonah Goldberg article is a perfect example of that.

[0] For instance, would the US civil war have turned out better or worse if Britain and France had intervened?

Don't respond to posts 32 pages back, they've already been dealth with in the thread.

foxyboxer

Dang, wanted to Post the Kittinger 'leap' yesterday but couldn't attach.
Excellent picture. Would have been funny if the automatic camera failed to work though!

DanGlee

Stekelly wrote: »

Why bother with truth eh? It was the other knee that Haaland had to retire because of.

Firstly, as mentioned below:

Don't respond to posts 20 odd pages back, they've already been dealth with in the thread.

Secondly. Might not have ended his career, but going in deliberately to injure him and shouting "take that you c***" Oh yeah, Roy Keane, world class player! What a man... just a typical rag! But its off topic, so whatever, get over it!

Jeege

"The Falling Man"
One of the many who jumped rather than waited for crushing in the 9/11 attacks. He almost seems relaxed, like he has accepted his fate. Very sad.

CCCP^

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Don't respond to posts 32 pages back, they've already been dealth with in the thread.

He's just clarifying something which is good, I don't see the probkem.

Morlar

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

Polish Pole vault jumper Władysław Kozakiewicz.

That guy rules !!

I couldn't see this one posted previously. I remember watching this on TV in Germany and they showed the whole gruesome thing from what I recall it took them about 10 minutes to get a final bead on the guy and his kid - knowing full well they were completely innocent palestinians. I will never forget hearing Alan Dershowitz defending the Israeli army for this.

cuig06

Wow fair fooking play. that was some thread. I got a good 2 days out of that. I was researching some of the images to find out more information. Just brilliant. As a student photographer I hope I have the balls to take shots like some of the ones we have just seen.

kevin carter rip

TheBastard

Regarding the picture above of the Palastinians, i have to say how any one could defend that is shocking. The Israeli Army do not obide by international rules of engagement. the only reason they get away with it is America will not stand up to them as The jewish vote is so strong in America. how could anyone fire on a man and child huddled in the corner behind a barrel. This picture alone says to me that the Israeli army are on par with the Nazis. Its a disgrace.:mad:

prinz

TheBastard wrote: »

Regarding the picture above of the Palastinians, i have to say how any one could defend that is shocking. This picture alone says to me that the Israeli army are on par with the Nazis. Its a disgrace.:mad:

In actual fact IIRC those poor unfortunates were caught in the middle of a street gun battle. It was unclear who was responsible for their deaths. Blame should be apportioned to both sides. Their own "freedom fighters" didn't give a toss about them being stranded there either.

Jeege

Is there a link to the story? So tragic

Morlar

Jeege wrote: »

Is there a link to the story? So tragic

Google is your friend (so is the bbc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/952600.stm

Boy becomes Palestinian martyr
Jamal al Durrah tries to protect his son Muhammad
"Don't shoot" screams the boy's father
Just moments after this picture was taken, Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead. Now the 12-year-old boy has been turned into a new martyr for the Palestinian cause.

For 45 minutes, Muhammad's father tried in vain to shield him from gunfire as they crouched against a concrete wall near Netzarim in the Gaza Strip.

This was his sacrifice for our homeland, for Palestine

Boy's mother

The whole scene was caught on camera by a France 2 cameraman, and has been played repeatedly on Palestinian television.

The footage shows the boy's father, Jamal al-Durrah, waving desperately to Israeli troops, shouting: "Don't shoot". But the terrified boy is hit by four bullets, and collapses in his father's arms.

An ambulance driver who tried to rescue the boy and his father was also killed, and a second ambulance driver was wounded.

Mr Durrah, who was also badly wounded, said his son died for "the sake of Al-Aqsa Mosque", the holy site in Jerusalem seen by the Palestinians as both sacred and sovereign territory.

"My son didn't die in vain," said his mother, Amal.

"This was his sacrifice for our homeland, for Palestine."

If Palestinian policemen had wanted to save the boy, they could have walked into the square ....and rescued the kid

Israeli Cabinet Secretary Yitzhak Herzog
But the Israeli Cabinet Secretary, Yitzhak Herzog, said that Palestinian security forces could have saved the boy.

In an interview with the BBC World Service, he said that "if Palestinian policemen had wanted to save the boy, they could have walked into the square, said 'Stop the fire'... and rescued the kid".

He added that Palestinian police should have called their Israeli counterparts who he said had been trying to speak to Palestinian commanders for hours.

Mr Herzog said people had seen "only the angle of the French television".

The Israeli army later admitted that the shots which killed Muhammad had "apparently" been fired by its troops, and apologised for his death.

boy
Muhammad cowers against his father
But before they did so, other Israeli officials questioned whether the boy was killed by Israeli bullets and said he could have been hit by stray Palestinian gunfire.

But witnesses say the Palestinian youths were armed only with stones, not guns, and the shooting was all from the Israeli side.

The video footage clearly shows that not only were the boy and his father completely unarmed, but they were not even part of the rioting.

Relatives say the pair were returning from Gaza's popular used-car market, and were trying to get home to the Buriej refugee camp where they live along with many thousands of Palestinians.

Image shocks world

A wounded child is carried away
Many children have been killed and wounded in the rioting
The disturbing footage has been played throughout the Middle East, and on all major US television networks over the weekend.

A photo still from the video ran on the front page of the New York Times.

The newspaper quoted an Israeli journalist as saying he saw the footage for the first time as he was delivering the news on Saturday night.

"I lost my voice. I've been doing this for many years... But my brain went dead, and my tongue went limp. To see a little boy killed before your eyes," he said.

The British newspaper, The Independent, described it as "an image that will haunt the world as painfully and powerfully" as any of those from the Palestinian uprising or Intifada.

Jeege

Hurricane Frances - Coast Of Florida 2004

nice1franko

Before the onslaught into Palestine:

"Israeli girls write messages of love on artillery shells at a heavy artillery position near Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel"

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"...with love From Israel"

Jeege

End Of His Life As He Knew It - Orphaned Chinese baby crying in the South Station in Shanghai, China, 28 Aug 1937

Australian Sergeant Leonard G. Siffleet of M Special Unit about to be beheaded by Japanese soldier Yasuno Chikao, Aitape, New Guinea, 24 Oct 1943

We Lost Everything Else, But We've Got What Really Matters
Two French boys watched from a hilltop as Allied vehicles passed through the badly damaged city of St. Lo, circa Jul-Aug 1944

SpitfireIV

RMS Titanic's location is discovered in September 1985, the world sees the ship for the first time since her fatal rendevous with an iceberg in April 1912.

^ First image captured by Robert Ballard, a boiler in the debris field.

The ships bow.

The crows nest.

BohemianDub

Long-time listener, first time caller...

Undoubtedly the best thread I have ever read, not just on boards but anywhere on the web. Thanks to all who have contributed. I have spent in the region of 12 hours over the last few days looking at pictures and then looking at the links and learning from them. It has been educational, funny, harrowing, scary, sad, but above all, very very interesting.

I'd just like to make a couple recommendations, if you don't mind..

In the later pages, there has been quite a bit of repetition. Yes, it's a long thread, but it does deserve to be viewed in it's entireity before anyone adds a new picture/post. Just saying "I'm not sure if this has been posted before.." is just laziness and it threatens to spoil a fantastic thread. Yes, I do realise there has been lots of photos and it's difficult to remember them all.

Secondly, what I really appreciated about this thread is the stories and explanations that go along with the photos. If possible, could posters add a link or explanation with their photos.

Finally, to keep the thread going, here's my offering (jaysus, I'll be scarlah if it's already been posted

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Pope John Paul II assasination attempt. Full story here

md23040

BEFORE

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BEFORE

THE EVENT

THE AFTER PARTY-THANK GOD

And the world watched this enigma enfold with fascination.

Turtwig

BohemianDub wrote: »

Pope John Paul II assasination attempt. Full story here

I can't believe, I forgot this (John Paul's assassination photo reminded me of it, so thanks:)).
The following photo in a Philippine newspaper about an appartment fire in no way shook our world, but if the fire never started our world could most definitely have been shaken.

Brief wiki on Bojinka Plot wrote:

The Bojinka plot ...was a planned large-scale terrorist attack by Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to blow up twelve airliners and ... 4,000 passengers....including a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II and crash a plane into the CIA headquarters in Fairfax County, Virginia....the Bojinka plot was disrupted after a chemical fire drew Filipino police attention on January 6 and January 7, 1995. One person was killed in the course of the plot...

Sometimes, the butterfly effect can be a good thing.:)