40 Of The Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken (extremely pic-heavy)

[Ragana]

Smoke from the remains of New York’s World Trade Center shrouds lower Manhattan as a lone seagull flies overhead in a photograph taken across New York Harbor from Jersey City, New Jersey September 12, 2001.


Japanese videographer killed during a demonstration in Yangon’s city center September 27, 2007.


A Russian police officer carries a released baby from the school seized by heavily armed masked men and women in the town of Beslan in the province of North Ossetia near Chechnya, September 2, 2004.


Flames come out of the Air France Concorde seconds before it crashed in Gonesse near Paris Roissy airport, July 25, 2000.


A Rwandan worker cleans a mass grave outside a church in Nyanza.Ethnic Hutu militia and soldiers slaughtered 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus in just 100 days during the 1994 massace in Rwanda that the outside world did little to prevent.

[Ragana]

Rescue workers carry fatally injured New York City Fire Department Chaplain, Fether Mychal Judge, from one of the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Rescue workers were hailed as heroes after working tirelessly after the Sept. 11 attacks to find any survivors. During the collapse of the twin towers, nearly 400 rescuers were killed as they battled to save people stranded in the World Trade Center. Up to 70,000 people took part in the massive operation at Ground Zero, including police, firefighters and construction workers, some coming voluntarily from other parts of the country. Many worked for months in a toxic cloud of dust and chemicals which has triggered a spate of illnesses, some fatal, among rescue workers.


Zeppelin LZ-129 Hindenburg, shortly after catching fire on May 6, 1937 at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.


First World War. July 1916. Wounded British troops on the Somme.


John F. Kennedy motorcade, Dallas, Texas, Nov. 22, 1963, just a few minutes before the fatal assassination attempt.


Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky, a member of a congressional committee investigating Nazi atrocities, views the evidence at first hand at Buchenwald concentration camp, Weimar, Germany.


Lenin address a crowd during Russian civil war of 1920. The Bolsheviks would emerge as the controlling force in Russia leading to the totalitarianism of Stalinist Russia. This photo was cut in half by Stalinist censors to remove Leon Trotsky from the official history.


For many years, powered flight was seen as an impossible dream. But, on December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the Wright Brothers succeeded in developing the first heavier than air aircraft flight. Within the next few decades, aircraft travel was to grow exponentially profoundly changing the nature of long distance travel.

[ivegotbigballs]

Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrol during his second tour in Iraq (which he had volunteered for) just a few weeks before he was due to return home.

This pic is my favorite

[629]

teared up pretty badly at that pic^

[Autolysis]

Little known fact: The guy getting shot was a viet cong officer who rounded up the families of South Vietnamese police offers and murdered them.

The shooter or "war criminal's" wife was one of those killed. He just found out the fact minutes before this picture too.

[DutchBodbuilder]

Terrible

[pctclomid]

[Motivation28]

Wow, this one got me.

[zacharytucker]

in after it turns into a dead person thread

[sammas22]

i am moved.





























and now saddened.

[ThatWrestler]

almost cried/ *almost

[GluteusMaximus]

in after it turns into a dead person thread

Yea, #37 doesn't really fall into the most moving pictures ever taken, they're just pictures of dead or disfigured people.

[LittleBitMad]

Wow Gj op

[myfacewhen]

wow the kid and the flag

[Ragana]

Alright guys, that's all I have. I'll periodically post one or two new ones as I find them through my 10k+ pic folders.

[Bmoy21]

in, i love looking at these pictures

[Swimfag]

The ones with the dogs staying by their dead owners made me shed a few tears... damn it.

[Stray800]

An African-American man cries as KFC was closed for Thanksgiving

This one really pulls at the heart strings

[Rain50]

The dog ones are always so sad.
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the dog ones usually get me far worse than human ones

[wickedwayz]

[racketteer]

I cried like a bitch at so many. really moving stuff OP.

[Ragana]

Guys don't ruin this thread by posting a bunch of BS. Let's actually have a good, sharing thread for once on Misc.

[superfunk]

There is a second picture from this scene, make of it what you will. See below.

Jacqueline Kennedy wears her pink Chanel suit, still stained with the blood of her husband, as Lyndon Johnson takes the oath of office in Air Force One.

According to Lady Bird Johnson, who was also present:

"Her hair [was] falling in her face but [she was] very composed ... I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedy's dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood – her husband's blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights – that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood."

Congressman Albert Thomas winks back at a quickly-smiling LBJ as he is being sworn in to be the next President of the United States on Air Force One while the grief-stricken Jackie Kennedy stands next to him.

[bigcc]

A dog is reunited with his owner following the tsunami in Japan in 2011.

Sorry for quoting the pc but that one literally gave me tears

[ShreddPain]

Started to tear up, especially at the Pet ones and the Reunited Families reading the rest of them when I get home.

[MushroomTipBrah]

wtf? people tearing up at the dog pics...do you not see the people watching their family members being killed before their own eye? jheeze....the one with the kid with his dead mother in his hands got me badly :/

[MushroomTipBrah]

and the one with the FY God is clearly fake....You can clearly see the kid is just scribbling, he probably doesn't even know how to write

[jganer]

Good thread!

[OnfiyA]

http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showth...hp?t=143964301



Do you take some of them off my thread?

[Icicle]

wtf? people tearing up at the dog pics...do you not see the people watching their family members being killed before their own eye? jheeze....the one with the kid with his dead mother in his hands got me badly :/

agreed. bunch of *******s in the misc