re: Most Powerful Photos in United States History!!

Comanche, lone survivor of Custer's command



First flight



San Francisco burns, 1906



The steamboat Sultana, loaded with Union soldiers freed from Confederate prison camps. That night, it would explode and burn, with over a thousand dead.



Climbing the Chilkoot Pass during the Klondike Gold Rush

Still gives me chills.

Firefighters raise the American flag on the ruins on the World Trade Centers [2001]



New York firefighters, many of whom lost friends in the 9/11 attacks, learn of Osama bin Laden's death [2011]



Dzhokar Tsarnaev, one of the brothers behind the Boston Marathon bombing, on the boat where he was eventually caught, with sniper lasers on his forehead. [2013]


Lesleigh Coyer, 25, of Saginaw, Michigan, lies down in front of the grave of her brother, Ryan, who served with the U.S. Army in both Iraq and Afghanistan [2013]

Canada, but still a great pic:

A couple kisses on the pavement during the Vancouver Riot [2011]

This image of a defenseless teenager having police dogs sicced on him went "viral" in parts of the country that were shocked at so visceral an image. Kennedy (like Eisenhower before him) was happy to this point to leave civil rights as a "states issue", effectively turning a blind eye to the evils of Jim Crow. However, world politics changed everything: Russia was successfully using images such as this to score political points against the US (how dare you criticize OUR record on human rights when you are doing things like this to your own people?), and ultimately, Kennedy and then Johnson realized federal intervention was required. The CRA and VRA passed within 2 years.