Famous historical PHOTOS.....
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I read a good story one time on the women in the picture above. That picture, "Migrant Mothers", became the symbol of the great depression. Apparently the back story on her plight wasnt very accurate and the lady was pissed that she became the face of poverty.
I'm an AP US History teacher and currently off on paternity leave. I could do this all day with the photos I've accumulated. I'll try not to.
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming,
Four dead in Ohio.
My kids just can't imagine what this old body has seen. I cannot imagine what they will see after I am gone.
Four dead in Ohio.
My kids just can't imagine what this old body has seen. I cannot imagine what they will see after I am gone.
Originally posted by NorthTexasHorn:
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"Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world," AP photojournalist Eddie Adams once wrote. A fitting quote for Adams, because his 1968 photograph of an officer shooting a handcuffed prisoner in the head at point-blank range not only earned him a Pulitzer Prize in 1969, but also went a long way toward souring Americans’ attitudes about the Vietnam War.
For all the image’s political impact, though, the situation wasn’t as black-and-white as it’s rendered. What Adams’ photograph doesn’t reveal is that the man being shot was the captain of a Vietcong "revenge squad" that had executed dozens of unarmed civilians earlier the same day. Regardless, it instantly became an icon of the war’s savagery and made the official pulling the trigger ? General Nguyen Ngoc Loan ? its iconic villain.
Sadly, the photograph’s legacy would haunt Loan for the rest of his life. Following the war, he was reviled where ever he went. After an Australian VA hospital refused to treat him, he was transferred to the United States, where he was met with a massive (though unsuccessful) campaign to deport him. He eventually settled in Virginia and opened a restaurant but was forced to close it down as soon as his past caught up with him. Vandals scrawled "we know who you are" on his walls, and business dried up.
Adams felt so bad for Loan that he apologized for having taken the photo at all, admitting, "The general killed the Vietcong; I killed the general with my camera."
Another tidbit never mentioned when this photo is shown. That VC's revenge squad had been responsible for killing some members of the generals family because they were the generals family.
No, the child was not chained to the ground. Apparently, the child was crawling towards a medical relief station/food station.
The photographer (and photographers in general) were told to be careful around the natives because they were highly infectious.
So the photographer left the child alone after taking the picture and after winning awards took his own life.
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