Images That Changed The World

[Agent O]

I was inspired to make this thread after coming across Time Life's book 100 Photographs That Changed the World.

Elizebeth Eckford walking alone to an all white school in Little Rock. She was refused entry to the school 2 times by the national guard.

http://www.vintageculture.net/images/elizabeth-eckford-and-hazel-bryant-in-little-rock1.jpg

He was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963. His act of self-immolation, which was repeated by others, was witnessed by David Halberstam, a New York Times reporter, who wrote:

" I was to see that sight again, but once was enough. Flames were coming from a human being; his body was slowly withering and shriveling up, his head blackening and charring. In the air was the smell of burning human flesh; human beings burn surprisingly quickly. Behind me I could hear the sobbing of the Vietnamese who were now gathering. I was too shocked to cry, too confused to take notes or ask questions, too bewildered to even think.... As he burned he never moved a muscle, never uttered a sound, his outward composure in sharp contrast to the wailing people around him."

http://www.nuzzaci.co.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/thich-quang-duc.jpg

Vulture waiting on Sudanese Baby to die
http://img37.imagefra.me/img/img37/2/2/22/mcatt66/f_obqsdho066pm_87aac3c.gif

Keep posting.

[Todd]

First steps on the moon:

http://www.maniacworld.com/Apollo_11_First_Step_on_the_Moon.jpg

[Luke]

http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/images/9-11%20attacks.jpg

9/11...probably the biggest change this world has seen in the past 50 years.

[Jen]

Taken after the Oklahoma City bombing.

http://www.athousandandone.com/photos/0/4489d1538cc3b_s.jpg

The Challenger Explosion

http://hbmortgageoracle.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/challenger-explosion.jpg

[Chris(tmas)]

http://open.salon.com/blog/rick_lucke/recent/page/files/hiroshima1222245155.jpg

[minuteforce]

Vulture waiting on Sudanese Baby to die
http://img37.imagefra.me/img/img37/2/2/22/mcatt66/f_obqsdho066pm_87aac3c.gif
I still say Carter should've done more than just take a photo and ditch. ;/

[hybridsoldier1989]

http://www.uiowa.edu/policult/assets/WWII/IwoJima_flag.jpg

[Harlz]

http://beyondasiaphilia.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/tank-man.jpg

http://benpeterson.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/nelson-mandela-freed-print-c10109556.jpeg

[Harlz]

Sorry about the stretching, I didn't realise :S

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I still say Carter should've done more than just take a photo and ditch. ;/

I feel the same way too.



Katanga-an portion.

[El Muerto]

I still say Carter should've done more than just take a photo and ditch. ;/

Well it's easier said than done.
The reporters sometimes have escorts and aren't allowed to get involved with anything they see. Also he probably saw dozens more things like that, you just can't help everyone, no matter how much you want it. Imagine them taking every hungry child they saw into their car and driving them to the UN camp.

He was there doing his job, and they probably had to move on wherever they were heading.

I don't blame the guy, although unfortunately he seemed to blame himself..

[Agent O]

This pictue is crazy! The girl's eyes are completely black. She was trapped in water, concrete ect... and people just sat helpless and watched her die!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omayra_S%C3%A1nchez
http://img38.imagefra.me/img/img38/2/2/22/mcatt66/f_12jsl4er82km_c7dd521.jpg

So eerie!

Emmett Till was an African American boy from Chicago, Illinois, who was murdered at the age of 14, after reportedly whistling at a white woman. Till had been beaten and an eye gouged out, before he was shot through the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 70-pound cotton gin fan tied to his body with barbed wire. His body was in the river for three days before it was discovered and retrieved by two fishermen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/20/060919_till_vmed_4pwidec.jpg
http://glennishamorgan.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/emmett.jpg

[Luke]

Sorry about the stretching, I didn't realise :S

And you top it off with a double post. Nice going Harlz, mate. :lol:

http://beanssoup.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/i-have-a-dream.jpg

[minuteforce]

Well it's easier said than done.
The reporters sometimes have escorts and aren't allowed to get involved with anything they see. Also he probably saw dozens more things like that, you just can't help everyone, no matter how much you want it. Imagine them taking every hungry child they saw into their car and driving them to the UN camp.

He was there doing his job, and they probably had to move on wherever they were heading.

I don't blame the guy, although unfortunately he seemed to blame himself..
Ah, yes, fair enough. :)

[Todd]

FYI, since this is going to be an image-heavy thread, if you post an image, use the [thumb] tag instead of the [img] tag and it'll show a thumbnail

[Harlz]

And you top it off with a double post. Nice going Harlz, mate. :lol:



Hey it's not my fault double posts don't get merged anymore :P