A Chinese man blocks a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Blvd. Monday, June 5, 1989 in front of the Beijing Hotel. The man, calling for an end to the recent violence and bloodshed against pro-democracy demonstrators, was pulled away by bystanders, and the tanks continued on their way.

 
 

Kosovo
1999
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Volcanic Mudslide in Colombia
1985
Pulitzer

 
 

Vietnam prisoner of war returning home to family
1973
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World Trade Center--Both by Richard Drew, AP photos

Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government, June 11, 1963. (AP Photo/Malcolm Browne)

Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination.

 
 

James Meridith, civil rights activist, shot.
1966
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South Vietnamese National Police Chief Brig Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head in Saigon, Vietnam on Feb. 1, 1968. Carrying a pistol and wearing civilian clothes, the Vietcong guerrilla was captured near Quang Pagoda, identified as an officer, and taken to the police chief.

 
In this image from video, Jamal Aldura shouts towards the camera as he protects his 12-year-old son Mohammed Jamal, as they shelter behind a barrel from crossfire Saturday, Sept. 30, 2000, near Netzarim Jewish settlement in the southern Gaza City.
Kim Phuc, center, was 9 in 1972 when she and others fled a napalm attack on their village in South Vietnam.  Pulitzer Prize photo.  

Kennedy family at funeral of JFK

 

Johnson sworn in on Air Force One just hours after assassination

 

Kennedy's head held by hotel busboy.
June 5, 1968
Bill Eppridge, Time, Inc.

 

A gunman wears a hood over his face as he stands on the balcony of the building where a group of Palestinian gunmen held Israeli athletes hostage at the Munich Olympic Village Sept. 5, 1972. The 20-hour standoff ended in a botched rescue effort at the airport. In all, 11 Israeli athletes, five of the Palestinians and a German policeman died.

Mary Ann Vecchio gestures and screams as she kneels by the body of a student lying face down on the campus of Kent State University, Kent, Ohio in this May 4, 1970 file photo. Ohio National Guardsmen had fired into a crowd of demonstrators, killing four.

Oklahoma City fire Capt. Chris Fields carries 1-year-old Baylee Almon, fatally injured in the bombing April, 19, 1995 at the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City.  (Charles H. Porter/AP Photo)


As thousands jam the streets of New York City, a sailor kisses a nurse to celebrate VJ Day on August 14, 1945.