I don't know what's worse, that picture with the kid on the ground or the fact that I understand how bad that is but don't express any emotion when I see it.
It's interesting to me how the civil rights movement gets pounded into our heads as one of the cornerstones of the American historical experience.
Those type of pictures help explain how America became the world's lone super power over nations that have existed for thousands of years.
"the punch heard round the world". 1951 and Oklahoma State player caught slugging a black Drake QB, Johnny Bright, in the face. Edit: my bad the Munich Pact. When Europe bent over and took it in the ass from Hitler
Was just about to post a pic of this event well here it is anyways Pretty fucking amazing that he didn't move or make any noises during this....just sat perfectly still and in a deep mediation
While it was staged it was then and still is a very important picture. Huge moral booster back here in the states.
I'm not disagreeing, but I'm not crazy about the idea of drawing attention to yourself after your men have already died on that beach.
Falling Man Last photo ever taken of Dana Stone and Sean Flynn. Two Vietnam era photographers/journalists who went missing in Cambodia. read Michael Herr's "Dispatches". Best non-fiction book I've ever read
East German defects to the West during the early construction of the Berlin Wall A dying Venezuelan soldier clings to a priest with sniper fire all around them during a uprising in Venezuela in the 60s
Can you name a movie that was inspired by this picture? This Marine was killed just a few days after this photo was taken