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Dec 15, 2008 21:02

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.
Photo credit: Douglas Martin, USA



January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.
Photo credit: Yasushi Nagao, Japan



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.
Photo credit: Malcolm W. Browne, USA



1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.
Photo credit: Héctor Rondón Lovera, Venezuela



1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.
Photo credit: Kyoichi Sawada, Japan



1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.
Photo credit: Kyoichi Sawada, Japan



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



1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.
Photo credit: Ut Cong Huynh, Vietnam



1973. A few seconds before Chile's elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.
Photo credit: Unknown photographer



1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.
Photo credit: Stanley Forman, USA



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

Photo credit: Michael Wells, U.K.



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.
Photo credit: Manuel Pérez Barriopedro, Spain



1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut, Lebanon.
Photo credit: Robin Moyer, USA



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.
Photo credit: Anthony Suau, USA



1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.
Photo credit: Charlie Cole, USA



1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.
Photo credit: James Nachtwey, USA



1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.
Photo credit: James Nachtwey, USA



1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola.
Photo credit: Francesco Zizola, Italy



2001. An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan.
Photo credit: Erik Refner, Denmark



2002. Soldiers and villagers in IRan are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake. A kid holds his father's pants before he is buried.
Photo credit: Eric Grigorian, USA)



2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.
Photo credit: Jean-Marc Bouju, France
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