The photo that basically convicted Oswald as the crazed lone assassin in the hearts and minds of the American people.
It had a huge impact. That photo was all over the place for a long, long time. It's still used in any overall look at the opposition to the war, it's affect on policy and Americans, the reaction of the government... and other reasons I'm blanking out on. Good choice and I remember the whole damn thing. A very emotional time. Kent State still makes me angry.
first evidence of life on another planet. A microscopic image take of Martian meteorite ALH84001 -- droxford
I looked for a picture of David Hasselhoff singing on top of the Berlin Wall, but I couldn't find one.
Wow, there are so many pictures, but here are a few that come to mind: What could have been. Here's a link to the slowly leaking conspiracy of Rabin's Assassination. Well, I think we all know about this one. Future? Certainly led to tragedy already.
The most famous (and arguably important) photo from the Civil War...the first time dead bodies, and thus the horrors of war, was photographed: Timothy O'Sullivan, Harvest of Death, 1863 To the earlier discussion, photography was invented in 1837 in Paris. The original photo posted earlier was from a rooftop in Paris. The reason it is so fuzzy is that it had an 8-9 hour exposure time. So shadows move during the day and the photo captures a kind of average of the movement. Street scenes from slightly later are also fascinating because most of the people disappear, if they moved at all during the long (but shortened from 8 hors) exposure time. So you would have a busy interesection in actuality that would only show one or two people standing at the corner or sitting at a bench.
haven't i read that scientists have backed off this now??? that they're not as convinced about it as they once were...like perhaps the meteorite developed the bacteria while here on earth?? seems like i read that recently.
The photos like this one (and much more graphic & unplesant ones) from when Buchenwald was liberated by the US, shocked the American public, and helped cement the Nazi's final reputation after WWII as a special kind of evil.
I'm surprised there aren't more Holocaust pictures here. While they didn't play an integral role in the rise and fall of the Nazis, they have a huge effect on how the world now thinks about Nazism, racism, concentration camps, Germans, Poles, Jews, Israel, and a host of other things. The Kent State description is a bit biased in info they decide to include and exclude. Though, it doesn't impact the photo's importance.
