Unforgettable Photos

Welcome to TheBestTrek, thank you for visiting the site, to see everying and to participate in discussions Register, its free, quick and easy to do plus, you get all the benefits.

[FiSH]

Unforgettable Photos



1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States. Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.



January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.



1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam, burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.



1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.



1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.



1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.



February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.



1973. A few seconds before Chile's elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.

[FiSH]

1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.



1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.



February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain. The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.



1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut, Lebanon.



1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.



1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.



1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger



1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.

[FiSH]

1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola.



2001. An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan.



2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.

[Valkyrie]

These are truly unforgettable.  I would never be able to be the photographer of anything like this.

[FiSH]

niether could i , but i have nothing but respect for the people that do , events like these cant be forgotten and each time you see a photo like one of these , it reminds us how pityfull the human race can be in all generations and segments of time

[Valkyrie]

Definitely.  You have to wonder what they would have done if we'd been able to have cameras all the way throughout history.  Unfortunately paintings don't cut it because they would do the topic according to their view on history.  Pictures don't lie as easily.  Mind you they can be taken out of context.

[TC1]

Very thought provoking photos. It's hard to believe we all live on the same planet together? Then again, with our history maybe not?

Some of the earliest taken and most gruesome photographs I've ever seen were of the American Civil War. This wasn't long after the invention of photography.

[Petay]

yes we are cruel bastards....

[compman777]

wow some of those photos are pretty bad. I think that this photo can't be found in china anymore.

[TC1]

Compman - You're probably right about this photo going AWOL in China. I'd be willing to bet the fellow in front of the tank has disappeared too!

[compman777]

yea, actually no one ever found out who that guy was. but probably he was killed many years ago since the photo was taken in 1989. but no young chinese people know what that picture was about.  talk about hiding the truth.

[Valkyrie]

Definitely.  I remember reading years ago that the student who participated in that protest were all punished in one way or another.  Some with prison, some with execution, some of their families were penalised as well.

[compman777]

they probably had what the simpson says "a bullet related dead". It is sad that the people of china can't have the same freedoms that the western world has.

[Valkyrie]

Very.  And their citizens can't even ask for it peacefully.  To do so is to court prison or worse.

[Kosh GTO]

with all that we have,and all that we can do,Killing and Hurting each other is what we do best.


Why can't we help instead of hurting one and other?? It's a shame!!!!!