The homeless dog one is the one that hits me the hardest

That is a potentially disappointing answer.

What is the story behind your reasoning?

Not much of a story...hadnt read past the first page yet but someone else echoed my general sentiment.

Dogs are so much better than humans.

A lot of animals are better than humans.

True...Id put dogs above most though. Obviously just my opinion.

The dog crouching by his dead owner laying in the street ****ing sucks. There is always that image of JFK Jr. shown saluting his dad at the funeral which is sad, but he was too young to know what was going on. You get a sense that this dog knows something is wrong with his owner and is sad/scared.

Yea I hadnt seen that one yet when I commented that one sucks as well. Dog def knows something is very wrong.

This is actually a Tribe in Africa that some how figured out how to tame Hyenas and they walk around with them like pets.

Also A+ pics for the ones that aren't Photoshoped.

some amazing pics here, glad i finally clicked this thread

There hasn't been a lot of discussion, and no caption, for the picture in the OP of the execution by handgun. I don't know all the details, but my understanding is that that single picture, which ran in either Time or Life, is said to have been the catalyst for the US's withdrawal from Vietnam, as it helped galvanize popular antiwar sentiment among groups that had previously been pro-war or ambivalent.

Also note the picture of a young woman over the body of a man (post #43). That's from Kent State. It helped change American attitudes toward public dissent against foreign actions.

The Hubble Deep Field is said by some to be the most important photograph ever taken, but it hasn't changed an entire nation's, or the world's, history. Not yet, anyway.

correct

According to the story linked earlier in the thread, these actual guys are more like a family-band of traveling minstrels. They use the hyenas to entertain and sell herbal remedies or something. But it does say the hyena handling has been passed down for generations.

And sadly, to one extent, it's a totally misleading picture. IIRC, the South Korean was executing a NC spy in civilian clothes, which is legal under international war code

awesome thread

Legal, and who knows, maybe even proper considering all the circumstances (though I would guess not, given human nature). So in a sense it having that powerful an effect is unaesthetic. But I think few people would look back and say that our withdrawal at that point in the war was a bad thing.

[note: it's still interesting that even in the pre-photoshop days, photos sometimes told lies — and in this case one of the most powerful lies ever told.]