BATTLEFIELD CASUALTIES AT
GETTYSBURG. (1863)
July 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
USA — Dead soldiers lie on the battlefield at Gettysburg, where 23,000 Union
troops and 25,000 Confederate troops were killed during the Civil War.
July 1863.
LINCOLN AT GETTYSBURG (1863)
A crowd forms for President Abraham
Lincoln’s Gettysburg address in Gettysburg, Pa., on Nov. 19, 1863. For Lincoln,
the power of the men’s sacrifice lay in the “cause for which they gave the last
full measure of devotion”: preserving the union and enabling “a new birth of
freedom” encompassing all men.
180,000 BISON SKULLS (1870)
Bison were hunted almost to
extinction in the 19th century and were reduced to a few hundred by the
mid-1880s. They were hunted for their skins, with the rest of the animal left
behind to decay on the ground. Here we see a poacher standing on a pile of an
estimate 100,000 Bison skulls
FIRST IN FLIGHT (1903)
The first flight of the Wright Flyer
I on December 17, 1903, Orville piloting, Wilbur running at wingtip.
SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE (1906)
The 1906 San Francisco earthquake
struck the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18.
Devastating fires broke out in the city that lasted for several days. As a
result, about 3,000 people died and over 80% of San Francisco was destroyed.
LUNCH ATOP A SKYSCRAPER (1932)
The photograph depicts eleven men
eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling 840 feet above the
New York City streets. The men have no safety harness, which was linked to the
Great Depression, when people were willing to take any job regardless of safety
issues. The photo was taken on September 20, 1932 on the 69th floor of the RCA
Building at Rockefeller Center during the last months of construction.
MIGRANT MOTHER (1936)
In March of 1936, during the height
of the Great Depression, photographer Dorothea Lange came across a camp of
2,500 destitute campers and snapped this photo that later became known as
Migrant Mother, which “has achieved near mythical status, symbolizing, if not
defining, an entire era in United States history.” Roy Stryker called Migrant
Mother the “ultimate” photo of the Depression Era.
HINDENBURG DISASTER (1937)
This photo, taken during the initial
explosion of the Hindenburg, shows the 804-foot German zeppelin just before
subsequent explosions sent the ship crashing to the ground at Lakehurst Naval
Air Station in Lakehurst, N.J., May 6, 1937. The roaring flames silhouette two
men, at right atop the mooring mast, dangerously close to the blasts. “Oh, the
humanity!” The scene stimulated NBC radio broadcaster Herbert Morrison to give
a memorable and highly emotion account of the disaster.
“THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH” (1939)
On July 4, 1939 a frail Lou Gehrig
stepped in front of a packed crowd at Yankee Stadium. The Manhattan-native knew
he was sick, but he was unaware that his illness (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
or ALS) would soon claim his life.
INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH (1944)
U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry Division
soldiers disembarking from a LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel) at
Omaha Beach during the Normandy Landings of D-Day.
RAISING THE FLAG (1945)
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima” is a
historic photograph taken on 23 February 1945 by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five
Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop
Mount Suribachi. The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in
thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the
Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and
ultimately came to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable
images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time.
THE KISS (1945)
A jubilant American sailor clutching
a white-uniformed nurse in a back-bending, passionate kiss as he vents his joy
while thousands jam Times Square to celebrate the long awaited-victory over
Japan on August 14, 1945.
THE ARREST OF ROSA PARKS (1955)
On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery,
Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake’s order to give
up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white
section was filled. When Parks refused to give up her seat, a police officer
arrested her.
THE DESEGREGATION OF LITTLE ROCK (1957)
Elizabeth Eckford (pictured) is one
of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957,
were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central
High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. A dramatic snapshot by Johnny Jenkins
showed the young girl being followed and threatened by an angry white mob and
was the unanimous selection for a 1958 Pulitzer Prize.
CHILDREN’S CRUSADE (1963)
The Birmingham Children’s Crusade
was a march by hundreds of school students in Birmingham, Alabama, May 2–5,
1963, during the American Civil Rights Movement’s Birmingham campaign. The
marches were stopped by the head of police “Bull Connor” who brought fire hoses
to ward off the children and set police dogs after the children. This event
prompted President John F. Kennedy to publicly fully support racial equality,
and led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A 17-year-old Civil Rights
demonstrator is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Ala., on May 3, 1963.
This image led the front page of the next day’s New York Times.
“I HAVE A DREAM” (1963)
Martin Luther King Jr. waving to the
crowd after delivering his “I Have a Dream” speech on August 28, 1963, in which
he calls for an end to racism in the United States. Delivered to over 250,000
civil rights supporters from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March
on Washington, the speech was a defining moment of theAmerican Civil Rights
Movement.
THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY (1963)
President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
smile at the crowds lining their motorcade route in Dallas, Texas, on November
22, 1963. Minutes later the President was assassinated as his car passed
through Dealey Plaza.
Cecil Stoughton‘s iconic photograph
as Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as U.S. President aboard Air Force One, Love
Field, Dallas. Jackie (right), still in her blood-soaked clothes (not visible
in picture), looks on.
Jack Ruby prepares to shoot and kill
Oswald, who, escorted by police detectives Jim Leavelle (tan suit) and L.C.
Graves, is being transferred from the City Jail to the Dallas County jail.
In this Monday, Nov. 25, 1963 file
photo, 3-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s casket in
Washington, three days after the president was assassinated in Dallas. Widow
Jacqueline Kennedy, center, and daughter Caroline Kennedy are accompanied by
the late president’s brothers Sen. Edward Kennedy, left, and Attorney General
Robert Kennedy.
ALI VS LISTON (1965)
On May 25, 1965, Muhammad Ali
defeated Sonny Liston in the first round of a heavyweight bout that produced
one of the strangest finishes in boxing history as well as one of sports’ most
iconic images.
WAR IS HELL (1965)
AP photojournalist Horst Faas took
this iconic photo on June 18, 1965, during the Vietnam War with 173rd Airborne
Brigade Battalion member Larry Wayne Chaffin on defense duty at Phouc Vinh airstrip
in South Vietnam. The headband message “War is Hell” typified an acerbic
attitude of many young American soldiers who were likely drafted and sent to
the remote southeastern Asia jungles to engage in deadly and terrifying
combat.’
FLOWER POWER (1967)
Taken on October 21, 1967 during a
march to the Pentagon, the iconic photo shows a young, long-haired Vietnam
protestor in a turtleneck sweater, placing carnations into the barrel of a
rifle of a National Guardsman.
THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (1968)
Civil rights leader Andrew Young (L)
and others standing on balcony of Lorraine motel pointing in direction of
assailant after assassination of civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr., who is lying at their feet.
1968 OLYMPICS BLACK POWER SALUTE
American sprinters Tommie Smith and
John Carlos raise their fists and give the Black Power Salute at the 1968
Olympic Games in Mexico City. The move was a symbolic protest against
racism in the United States. Smith, the gold medal winner, and Carlos,
the bronze medal winner, were subsequently suspended from their team for their
actions.
EARTHRISE (1968)
When the Apoll 8 spacecraft came out
from behind the Moon for its fourth pass across the front, the crew witnessed
“Earthrise” for the first time in human history.
THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT F. KENNEDY (1968)
Boris Yaro’s photograph of Robert F.
Kennedy lying wounded on the floor immediately after the shooting. Kneeling
beside him is 17-year-old Juan Romero, who was shaking Kennedy’s hand when
Sirhan Sirhan fired the shots.
NEIL ARMSTRONG WITH TEARS IN HIS EYES (1969)
A photo of Neil Armstrong taken only
moments after he returned from first walking on the moon. A teary-eyed
Armstrong looks at the camera, rendered speechless by what he has just
experienced. It’s a beautiful portrait taken by Buzz Aldrin after they returned
to the Lunar Excursion Module, and beautifully captures the emotions he later
put into words when he said, “It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty
and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb
blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very
small.”
KENT STATE SHOOTING (1971)
John Filo’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio, a 14-year-old runaway kneeling over the body of
Jeffrey Miller minutes after he was shot by the Ohio National Guard on May 4,
1971.
BURST OF JOY (1973)
After spending more than five years
in a North Vietnamese camp, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is reunited with his
family at Travis AFB, March 13, 1973. Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning
photograph by Associated Press photographer Slava “Sal” Veder. The photograph
came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and
the prevailing sentiment that military personnel and their families could begin
a process of healing after enduring the horrors of war.
THE SOILING OF OLD GLORY (1976)
The Soiling of Old Glory is a
Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph taken for the Boston Herald American in 1976
by Stanley Forman. The photograph depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes,
trying to assault black lawyer and civil-rights activist Ted Landsmark with a
flagpole bearing the American flag. It was taken in Boston on April 5, 1976,
during one in a series of protests against court-ordered desegregation busing.
It ran on the front page of the Herald American the next day, and also appeared
in several newspapers across the country.
MIRACLE ON ICE (1980)
The United States national team,
made up of amateur and collegiate players and led by coach Herb Brooks,
defeated the Soviet Union national team at the 1980 Winter Olympics, which had
won the gold medal in six of the seven previous Olympic games. In 1999, Sports
Illustrated named the “Miracle on Ice” the Top Sports Moment of the 20th
Century.
VIETNAM MEMORIAL (1982)
Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World
War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans
Memorial in 1982, holding the flag that covered the casket of his son, who was
killed in the Korean War.
SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER (1986)
The Space Shuttle Challenger
disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter
Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its
seven crew members.
MICHAEL JORDAN’S FREE THROW DUNK (1988)
Entering the final attempt of the
1988 Slam Dunk Contest, Michael Jordan needed a 48 points (out of 50) to tie
Dominique Wilkins and a 49 to win. Everything was on the line, so he broke out
what would become one of the signature moments in sports history in front of
the home crowd. Jordan’s dunk from the free-throw line earned him a perfect
score and allowed him to successfully defend his title.
“NO ONE IS BORN RACIST” (1992)
A white child touches the shield of
a black Georgia State Trooper during a KKK protest in Atlanta.
CHRISTMAS TIME AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER (1995)
BLACK TEEN PROTECTS A KKK MEMBER
(1996)
In 1996, a black teenager protected
a white man from an angry mob who thought he supported the racist Ku Klux Klan
ELIAN GONZALEZ (2000)
Elian Gonzalez is held in a closet
by Donato Dalrymple, one of the two men who rescued the boy from the ocean,
right, as government officials search the home of Lazaro Gonzalez for the young
boy, in the early morning, in this April 22, 2000 file photo, in Miami.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
United States President George W.
Bush on the morning of September 11, 2001 at Emma E. Booker elementary school
when he first learned of the second plane crashing into the World Trade Center,
and where he made his first public comments about the September 11 attacks.
Mychal Judge was a Franciscan friar
and Catholic priest who served as a chaplain to the New York City Fire Department.
It was while serving in that capacity that he was killed, becoming the first
certified fatality of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
The Falling Man is a photograph
taken by Associated Press photographer Richard Drew of a man falling from the
North Tower of the World Trade Center at 9:41:15 a.m. during the September 11
attacks in New York City. The subject of the image, whose identity remains
uncertain, was one of the people trapped on the upper floors of the skyscraper
who either fell searching for safety or jumped to escape the fire and smoke.
VETERAN’S DAY (2004)
Pearl Harbor survivor Houston James
of Dallas is overcome with emotion as he embraces former Marine SSgt Mark
Graunke, Jr. of Flower Mound, Texas during the Dallas Veterans Day
Commemoration at Dallas City Hall. SSgt Graunke, Jr., who was a member of a
Marine ordnance-disposal team, lost a hand, leg, and eye while defusing a bomb
in Iraq in July of 2003.
SUNSET ON MARS (2005)
On May 19, 2005, NASA’s Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the
rim of Gusev crater on Mars.
A SOLDIER’S CHILD (2007)
Heather Golczynski and her
8-year-old son Christian hold tightly to the memory of Marine Staff Sgt. Marc
Golczynski. On March 27, just a few weeks before Marc Golczynski was to return
home from his second tour in Iraq — one he volunteered for — he was shot on
patrol and killed by enemy fire in al-Aanbar province. During a moment at the
burial, Christian stepped forward to receive the flag for his father. The
expression of grief on his young face was captured in a photo and became a
powerful symbol for soldiers, their families and anyone who sees it. When asked
about his dad by ABC News’ Chris Cuomo, Christian said, “He was a hero. He helped
our country.”
REUNITED (2007)
Major Terri Gurrola and her daughter
Gaby reunite after her seven month deployment.
FIRST INAUGURATION OF BARACK OBAMA (2008)
The first inauguration of Barack
Obama as the 44th President of the United States took place on Tuesday, January
20, 2009. The inauguration, which set a record attendance for any event held in
Washington, D.C., marked the commencement of the first four-year term of Barack
Obama as President and Joe Biden as Vice President. Based on the combined
attendance numbers, television viewership, and Internet traffic, it was among
the most-observed events ever by the global audience.
BIN LADEN IS DEAD (2011)
His perfectly distilled picture
showed the firefighters of Ladder Company 4 — which lost seven men on 9/11 —
perched together on their aerial ladder, watching a news bulletin in Times
Square declaring that Osama bin Laden was dead. Though their backs were to the
camera, the men’s body language spoke eloquently.
THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY (2011)
Robert Peraza, who lost his son
Robert David Peraza, pauses at his son’s name at the North Pool of the 9/11
Memorial during tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade
Center in New York, Sept. 11, 2011.
HANDSHAKE (2011)
President Barack Obama shakes the
prostetic hand of US Army Sgt. First Class Leroy Arthur Petry, from Santa Fe,
N.M., before awarding him the Medal of Honor during a ceremony in the East Room
of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Petry is the ninth service
member to have been named a recipient of the Medal of Honor for actions in
Afghanistan and Iraq.
MAN’S BEST FRIEND (2012)
As twisters ravaged the the Midwest
and the South in early 2012, Greg Cook was reunited with his dog Coco outside
his destroyed home in Limestone County, Ala.
THE PRIDE HOUSE (2015)
On June 27th the White House was lit
up in rainbow colors in commemoration of the Supreme Court’s ruling to legalize
same-sex marriage.
The 180,000 BISON SKULLS (1870) was to try to kill off the native Americans/indigenous people.
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