Your favourite powerful historical images
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| The photo by Kevin Carter of the starving child in Sudan with the vulture waiting nearby. |
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| Oh, and he won a Pulitzer for it, and killed himself 4 months later. |
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| There are so many. The French man crying as the Nazis occupied France. The terrified naked little girl running in Vietnam. |
Anonymous
Yes, the na-palm picture. That has stayed with me. BTW, she escaped and now lives in Canada. |
Anonymous
The film the “bang bang club” is decent. |
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This is what I immediately thought of too. It has haunted me since the first time I ever saw it. |
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"Napalm Girl" 
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I was wrong about the reason man was crying. The Crying Frenchman https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/weeping-frenchman-1940/ |
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At work, someone has a phot in their office of Malcolm X and MLK Jr together laughing and smiling. Knowing what happened to them both, that picture is so haunting to me.
One of my favorite historical pictures is of Muhammad Ali practicing his boxing underwater. So beautiful. We have that hung as a poster in our child’s bedroom. |
Anonymous
| The Burning Monk. |
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The Falling Man from 9/11. Such a powerful image from a tragic day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Man |
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I dont know if this changes anything for you but both men were well aware of the kind of death that awaited them and both thought what they were doing was worth the sacrifice. |
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MacArthur and the emperor of Japan
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