What iconic photos of events are imprinted in your memory?

[wnylib]

I was thinking this morning of the power of pictures to capture not just events, but our feelings about those events. Today that could include videos or photos by amateurs in the right place and time, and not just professional photographers.

The ones that come to mind from the past for me are the Vietnamese girl running naked through the streets, the firefighter holding a toddler's lifeless body from the Oklahoma City bombing, Jackie Kennedy in her blood-stained suit standing next to LBJ as he was sworn in, John Jr. saluting his father's casket.

They can be happy photos and memories, too, like Barack and Michelle on stage after the election results in 2008. I was at our city's Dem election headquarters that night, along with other local campaign volunteers. That photo, or videos of that moment, remind me of the teen volunteers with us who ran into the streets to tell passing cars that Obama had won. They were singing "We Are the Champions." A 15 year old standing next to me said, with great relief, "We saved ourselves." Weary of the Bush terms, I said, "I have waited 8 years for this moment." An elderly Black woman said to me, "I have waited a lifetime."

What photos or video moments are imprinted in your mind forever?

[PoliticAverse]

1. Also the execution picture from Vietnam...

https://allthatsinteresting.com/saigon-execution

[wnylib]

3. Oh yeah. Nobody who saw it could forget.

[underpants]

4. I had never read that.

Thanks. Gen. Loan was a true harass. Captain Bay Lop had it coming.

[Fla Dem]

9. 1st one that came to my mind.

The other was the Kent State photo, and the one with JFK Jr as a child saluting his Dad's coffin as it passed by the church, then the RFK assassination. All relate to death, but I guess because those had the biggest impact on my psyche. Plus, most happened when I was still a pretty impressionable young person, not yet exposed to all the dramas of life.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. That was actually caught on Super 8 film too

The blood came out of his temple like a fountain. Grizzly

[Polly Hennessey]

2. The first ones to pop in my mind are:

Vietnamese girl; Kent State; sailor kissing nurse in Times Square WWII.

[wnylib]

6. Yes, the Kent State photo that was

memorialized in the song, Four Dead in Ohio. A friend of mine was a student at Kent at the time. As things heated up over the weekend, she went home. Her parents followed news reports over the weekend and insisted that she not return for classes on that Monday, so she was at home when the shootings occurred. She never went back.

[underpants]

5. Many great responses here. This one is from sports.

Yelberton Abraham Tittle. QB for the NY Giants.

[Quakerfriend]

7. There are so many

Most recently-
Seeing General Mark Milley walk side-by-side with Trump through Lafayette Park- That made by blood run cold.

Thank goodness for his apology the following day.

[PoliticAverse]

10. Tank Man...

One of the most memorable pictures ever taken...

Frontline documentary on the story:

[wnylib]

11. I had not seen that. Thanks

for posting it.

[Midnight Writer]

12. Ruby shoots Oswald.

[Miguelito Loveless]

13. Bobby Kennedy lying on the floor

with a waiter beside him in his dying moments.

[wnylib]

15. And other images of Bobby, too.

I remember him holding Jackie's hand on the walk to the cemetery for Jack's funeral. His speech on the night that MLK was murdered. The ending of his speech just before he was shot. The people lined up to see the train carrying his body.

[RainCaster]

14. The fall of the Berlin Wall

The pictures of those young people on the top of the wall, tearing it down a chunk at a time

[Ptah]

16. Burning Monk

[wnylib]

17. I'm also thinking of the Kennedy

family photos while Jack was in office. John Jr crawling under his father's desk. Caroline on her pony named Macaroni. (Neil Diamond said that she inspired his song, Sweet Caoline.) Jack and Jackie on a sailboat.

Jack's frequent TV press conferences kept us informed and made us feel connected to and invested in national and international events, just like the family photos made us feel like we personally knew them. I remember Jack's special address to the nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis, as depicted in the movie, 13 Days.

The Kennedys did some powerful messaging through photos. It's one reason why so many of us felt the loss so deeply and personally when he died.

[nocoincidences]

18. 9/11 The Falling Man

[wnylib]

19. And the second plane.

Plus, the debris plume spreading down the street as people fled ahead of it.

[Totally Tunsie]

21. The Hindenburg Disaster

The Hindenburg disaster was an airship accident that occurred on May 6, 1937, in Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States. The German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock with its mooring mast at Naval Air Station Lakehurst. The accident caused 35 fatalities (13 passengers and 22 crewmen) from the 97 people on board (36 passengers and 61 crewmen), and an additional fatality on the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindenburg_disaster