(Not sure if this has been posted yet) Serial killer Christopher Wilder watches Seventeen magazine pageant winner Michelle Korfman (seen in the foreground holding flowers) shortly before he abducted, raped, and murdered her3yr ⋅ laurenloyd19 ⋅ r/IconicImages
A Romanian anti-communist resistance rushing into position during The Christmas Revolution. 1989.4yr ⋅ TheSouthernMyth ⋅ r/IconicImages
Japanese radical socalist Inejiro Asanuma moments before his assasination by ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi during a televised debate in Tokyo. October 12, 1960. Photo by Yasushi Nagao (who won the Pulitzer Prize for it.)4yr ⋅ TheSouthernMyth ⋅ r/IconicImages
Samir, The Iraqi-American military interpreter for Operation Red Dawn poses with a recently captured Saddam Hussain in Ad-Dawr, Iraq. Decemeber 13th, 2003.4yr ⋅ TheSouthernMyth ⋅ r/IconicImages
President Obama holding 3 year old Arianna Holmes in the Oval Office. Feb. 1, 2012. Photo by Lawrence Jackson.4yr ⋅ TheSouthernMyth ⋅ r/IconicImages
The Chicago Cubs moments after winning the 2016 World Series. Ending the longest championship drought (107 Years) in North American sports history.4yr ⋅ TheSouthernMyth ⋅ r/IconicImages
A Turkish resistance fighter runs towards the fighting during the Cyprus civil war. Photo by Don McCullin, 1964.4yr ⋅ TheSouthernMyth ⋅ r/IconicImages
Kim Phuc, child survivor of infamous Vietnamese napalm attack, 40 years later with her grandson.7yr ⋅ Nexious ⋅ r/IconicImages
You’ve probably all seen the iconic photo of Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield, but here are some more pics from the same occasion that you might not have seen.6yr ⋅ WildeAquarius ⋅ r/IconicImages
While all others ducked, Secret Service agent Tim McCarthy stands to take a bullet for President Reagan6yr ⋅ ANAL_PLUNDERING ⋅ r/IconicImages
Abandoned boy holding stuffed animal amid ruins following German bombing of London, 1945 (Colourised)6yr ⋅ wesdemez1990 ⋅ r/IconicImages
US Marine gives candy to Japanese child at Internment Camp - WW2, 1944 (colourised)7yr ⋅ wesdemez1990 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Sad Brazil fan clutching his replica World Cup after Brazil loses to Germany 7-1 in the World Cup semi-final10yr ⋅ citiesinseas ⋅ r/IconicImages
Once a Beatle: When Ringo Starr was ill with tonsillitis, he substituted on drums for 8 concerts & lived a superstar's life for 10 days. Jimmie Nicol sits alone in the Melbourne airport, waiting for the plane that will take him back to obscurity (15 June 1964) (xpost from r/HistoryPorn)9yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
The Babe Bows Out Wrought by cancer, Ruth makes his final appearance at Yankee Stadium7yr ⋅ ANAL_PLUNDERING ⋅ r/IconicImages
Kid watching Martin Luther King's I Have A Dream Speech. Aug. 28, 1963.9yr ⋅ texanwill ⋅ r/IconicImages
Swedish woman who grew up in occupied Poland hits Neo-nazi on his head with her handbag. Her mom had been in a Polish concentration camp.10yr ⋅ Pherma95 ⋅ r/IconicImages
A boy with the body of his father, killed by the Islamic State, at a field hospital (2016)7yr ⋅ FGCHENG ⋅ r/IconicImages
Buddhist Monk Sokan Obara praying for the victims of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake (x-post from r/Buddhism and r/AccidentalRenaissance)5yr ⋅ themanwhosleptin ⋅ r/IconicImages
Michael Jackson's 1993 Super Bowl Performance is still one of the most iconic live performances to this day.8yr ⋅ LemonNaught ⋅ r/IconicImages
The Long Walk: A British Army ATO approaches a suspect device in Belfast, N. Ireland8yr ⋅ nerdcafe-gamer1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
A displaced Iraqi woman holds her cat, Lulu, as she waits for transport in the Iraqi Kurdish checkpoint of Shaqouli on November 10, 2016, after she fled her home with her children in the eastern Intisar neighbourhood of the embattled city to take refuge at a camp in Arbil. © Odd Andersen7yr ⋅ lookupintheclouds ⋅ r/IconicImages
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and fellow civil rights activists praying as they prepare to peacefully march in Selma, Alabama8yr ⋅ themanwhosleptin ⋅ r/IconicImages
One of 1.5 million citizens tagged, documented, and executed by the Khmer Rouge for the crime of being educated ca. 1978 (xpost from r/MorbidReality)8yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
Only known image of Billy the Kid. Sold for 2.3 million dollars making it the 7th most expensive picture of all time9yr ⋅ AcWoCd ⋅ r/IconicImages
Captured Iranian soldier Mohsen Hojaji before being executed by ISIS7yr ⋅ fragments_from_Work ⋅ r/IconicImages
US Iraq war hero Joseph Dwyer carrying an injured Iraqi boy who he rescued from crossfire. After the war, Dwyer was diagnosed with PTSD. Faced w/ being jobless, marital breakdown, violent delusions. Dwyer later died of a drug overdose (xpost from r/MilitaryPorn)10yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
A Canadian soldier face to face with Mohawk warrior during the Oka Crisis (1990).10yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/IconicImages
Back in 2012, the people of Mexico were lined up along the streets to see the Pope, but this little dog just stole the show.10yr ⋅ nomanoid ⋅ r/IconicImages
April 7th, 1994. The massacre of the first tutsis starts what is now known as the Rwanda genocide.9yr ⋅ Olaf_the_Notsosure ⋅ r/IconicImages
Saigon execution: Murder of a Vietcong by Saigon police chief, 1968.7yr ⋅ rojocapo610 ⋅ r/IconicImages
The last male northern white rhino is under armed guard 24 hours a day at a Kenyan reserve to protect him from poachers. The rhino, named Sudan, is cared for by rangers at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, along with his two female companions.9yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
Pre-Wonder Woman, 20-year-old, bikini-clad Lynda Carter relaxes poolside (circa 1971-1972)8yr ⋅ JustBlue ⋅ r/IconicImages
Navy bandsman Graham Jackson playing Goin' Home on the accordion, with tears streaming down his cheeks, as Franklin Delaware Roosevelt's hearse headed to the train station in Warm Spring, Ga., in 1945.10yr ⋅ awena626 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema) is a Brazilian bossa nova jazz song. It was a worldwide hit in the mid-1960s and won a Grammy for Record of the Year in 1965. This girl was the inspiration for the song8yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
106-year-old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47, 19908yr ⋅ nomdepluminator_83 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Kiss with nurse. Celebrating the end of WW2 in times square. Nurse passes away today at the age of 92.8yr ⋅ rojocapo610 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Mary Ann Vecchio kneels over the body of Jeffrey Miller after he was shot by the Ohio National Guard, Kent State, May 4th, 1970.7yr ⋅ BrianOBlivion1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Firefighter Mike Kehoe ascending the stairs of the World Trade Center's north tower on September 11, 200110yr ⋅ tuckinyourtail ⋅ r/IconicImages
The Beatles in their final concert on the roof of Apple Records on January 30, 1969 (xpost from r/OldSchoolCool)9yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
“Running the Negro out of Tulsa” — a photograph from the Tulsa, Oklahoma race riot of 1921, which destroyed hundreds of black-owned homes and businesses, leaving 300 dead and 10,000 homeless.7yr ⋅ BrianOBlivion1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Ruby Bridges escorted by U.S. Marshals from William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, 1960.7yr ⋅ BrianOBlivion1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
An unidentified person stops a line of Chinese tanks, Tienanmen Square, Beijing, 19896yr ⋅ BrianOBlivion1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
April 12th, 1980. Terry Fox starts his Marathon of Hope in Newfoundland.9yr ⋅ Olaf_the_Notsosure ⋅ r/IconicImages
A woman sits in a wagon reserved for white people to protest apartheid, South Africa, 19528yr ⋅ ghatroad ⋅ r/IconicImages
Robert Duvall wearing cue cards with Marlon Brando's lines in the making of The Godfather (1972)9yr ⋅ JustBlue ⋅ r/IconicImages
March 14, 1991 - The Birmingham Six, imprisoned for 16 years for their alleged part in an IRA pub bombing, are set free after a court agrees that the police fabricated evidence9yr ⋅ KonungCarl ⋅ r/IconicImages
During the Iranian Revolution, women protest Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s decree requiring all women to wear a veil in public .7yr ⋅ BrianOBlivion1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
1992: After winning the British Grand Prix, Nigel Mansell gives a ride to a stranded Ayrton Senna.10yr ⋅ JournalofFailure ⋅ r/IconicImages
John Wojtowicz outside the Chase Manhattan bank he was attempting to rob, August 22, 19728yr ⋅ ElectiveAffinities ⋅ r/IconicImages
March 10, 1959 - Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal9yr ⋅ KonungCarl ⋅ r/IconicImages
Gander airport, Newfoundland, 9/11/2001. 38 flights with 6,600 people landed here, and the town rallied to feed and house them.10yr ⋅ zudnic ⋅ r/IconicImages
Victoria Woodhull was the first female candidate for President of the United States in 1872 for the Equal Rights Party. An activist for women’s rights and labor reforms & an advocate of free love, by which she meant the freedom to marry, divorce, & bear children without govt interference.7yr ⋅ BrianOBlivion1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
West Berlin policemen face down East German soldiers after a young girl escapes over the border.9yr ⋅ JeffTheAlmighty ⋅ r/IconicImages
An 8 year old chess prodigy, Samuel Reshevsky, playing a simultaneous exhibition with a group of French masters9yr ⋅ 1millionbucks ⋅ r/IconicImages
April 9, 1959 - NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the Mercury Seven9yr ⋅ KonungCarl ⋅ r/IconicImages
Only recently discovered this picture on Reddit, and as an Irishman, I love it - Irish citizens celebrate on O'Connell Bridge in Dublin on Easter Monday 1949 as Ireland is declared a Republic - the 33rd anniversary of the 1916 rising10yr ⋅ enter-the-labrinth ⋅ r/IconicImages
Louis Armstrong plays trumpet for his wife, Lucille, in front of the Great Sphinx and pyramids in Giza, Egypt (1961)9yr ⋅ JustBlue ⋅ r/IconicImages
Two childhood friends meet during a demonstration. One is a striker, the other one, a policeman. Saint-Brieuc, France, 197210yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
The Cakewalk; a dance that was performed by slaves at get togethers on plantations. The dance caught on in society in the late 1800's. First performed by men, it became the fashion to have women participate in the 1890's at which time the dance reached epic and ridiculous proportions9yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
Running the Negro out of Tulsa — a photograph from the Tulsa, Oklahoma race riot of 1921, which destroyed hundreds of black-owned homes and businesses, leaving 300 dead and 10,000 homeless X-post r/HistoryPorn9yr ⋅ ghatroad ⋅ r/IconicImages
The agony of his decision reflected in his face. New York's Commissioner of Correction Russell Oswald reluctantly ordered a full-scale assault on rebellious inmates at Attica prison after the negotiations had reached a deadlock.9yr ⋅ NinjaDiscoJesus ⋅ r/IconicImages
Babe Ruth knocked himself out during a baseball game in 1924 (article in comments section)8yr ⋅ KimmieRahi ⋅ r/IconicImages
A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument.9yr ⋅ holden147 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Onlookers at the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930, Marion, Indiana7yr ⋅ BrianOBlivion1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Helicopters flying above the heads of U.S. soldiers during the vietnam war.8yr ⋅ bilbo2002 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Jet Age Man - light is shone through a Venetian blind to create a contour of a human head during an Air Force study of jet-pilot helmets. - Cover of LIFE Magazine, December 6th 19549yr ⋅ P1zzaBagels ⋅ r/IconicImages
North Korean and South Korean players embrace after North Korea win the East Asian Cup on the 60th anniversary of armistice.9yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
Sophia Loren, 36, from her movie Sunflower (I girasoli, original Italian title) (1970)9yr ⋅ JustBlue ⋅ r/IconicImages
Marilyn Monroe with Nancy and Ronald Reagan at Charles Coburn’s birthday party on June 17, 19539yr ⋅ JustBlue ⋅ r/IconicImages
Actor/stuntman Ormer Locklear crashes into a church steeple in a stunt for the lost movie The Skywayman from 1920.9yr ⋅ CherenkovRadiator ⋅ r/IconicImages
Possibly the final photo taken of Buddy Holly, at his last show before his death in a plane crash two days later, alongside Richie Valens & The Big Popper (Feb. 1959)9yr ⋅ nerdcafe-gamer1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
Margaret Hamilton, NASA lead software engineer, and this is the Apollo guidance program she wrote.8yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
1962, England: Test pilot George Aird ejects from his doomed Lightning F1 moments before impact, watched by a startled farmer. He landed in a greenhouse with multiple broken bones, remaining unconscious until the automatic sprinklers kindly informed him that he was not dead.9yr ⋅ septicman ⋅ r/IconicImages
April 4, 1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space9yr ⋅ KonungCarl ⋅ r/IconicImages
March 30, 1981 - Trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, obsessed fan John Hinckley, Jr. shot and wounded U.S. President Ronald Reagan and three others outside the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.9yr ⋅ KonungCarl ⋅ r/IconicImages
Albert Einstein’s office in Princeton, New Jersey, and his Unified Field Theory which was to summarize all physical forces, just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist last left it, taken hours after he died. 04/18/559yr ⋅ JustBlue ⋅ r/IconicImages
Comedy geniuses Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, and Dick Van Dyke at a reunion of the Dick Van Dyke Show, produced and written by Carl Reiner, with writers who included Mel Books (2000s)9yr ⋅ JustBlue ⋅ r/IconicImages
John Travolta dancing with Princess Diana in what would come to be known as the Travolta Dress in the White House entrance hall, 1985.10yr ⋅ texanwill ⋅ r/IconicImages
Pfc. Abraham Mirmelstein holds the Holy Scroll as Capt. Manuel M. Poliakoff and Cpl. Martin Willen conduct Jewish services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of Dr. Joseph Paul Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Munchengladbach, Germany on March 18, 1945.6yr ⋅ HillDrag0n ⋅ r/IconicImages
A girl who grew up in a concentration camp draws a picture of “home” while living in a residence for disturbed children, 194810yr ⋅ [deleted] ⋅ r/IconicImages
March 20, 2003 - In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq9yr ⋅ KonungCarl ⋅ r/IconicImages
Forest guards grapple with the chaos of a leopard attack in West Bengal, India9yr ⋅ ghatroad ⋅ r/IconicImages
March 1, 1954 - The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean9yr ⋅ KonungCarl ⋅ r/IconicImages
April 6, 1974 - The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Waterloo, launching their international career9yr ⋅ KonungCarl ⋅ r/IconicImages
During the 2011 massacre on Utøya, Norway, the media managed to capture this image of Anders B. Breivik and a possible victim.9yr ⋅ rosenkal ⋅ r/IconicImages
The Beatles erupting in a gleeful pillow fight on hearing that “I Want to Hold Your Hand” had reached number one in America8yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
Actor Sean Connery as James Bond sitting in a chair surrounded by ten bikini-clad ladies (1960s)9yr ⋅ JustBlue ⋅ r/IconicImages
An emaciated polar bear presents us with yet another ugly view of a climate-changed future. August 2015, wildlife photographer Kerstin Langenberger captured this heartbreaking image off the shores of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean.9yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
Young Osama Bin Laden in a cave while fighting the invading Soviet forces. Jalalabad region, Afghanistan, 19888yr ⋅ ghatroad ⋅ r/IconicImages
A message to a missing girl (Sarah Pryor) from the USA is written on the Berlin Wall at Leipziger Platz. It reads: 'Sarah, wherever you are, we love you. God loves you'. The case remained unsolved until 1998.10yr ⋅ nerdcafe-gamer1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
U.S. President Lyndon Johnson listens to tape sent by Captain Charles Robb from Vietnam, 19689yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
A German civilian looks up at a gigantic Stalin portrait on Unter Den Linden, Soviet sector of Berlin (June 1945)9yr ⋅ nerdcafe-gamer1 ⋅ r/IconicImages
When a chimp called Dorothy, who was in her late 40s, died of heart failure, her fellow apes were transfixed by the spectacle. The Chimpanzees appear to console one another as Dorothy is carried to her final resting place in a wheelbarrow.10yr ⋅ texanwill ⋅ r/IconicImages
A navy photographer snapped this photograph of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, just as the USS Shaw exploded9yr ⋅ blitzballer ⋅ r/IconicImages
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau doing a pirouette behind the queen of England. (1977)9yr ⋅ Clickclack999 ⋅ r/IconicImages
April 16, 1947 - An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 6009yr ⋅ KonungCarl ⋅ r/IconicImages
Michael Jackson in the makeup room for the Thriller music video9yr ⋅ BlackWidowOffer ⋅ r/IconicImages
