Images from the Visual Revolution

Think back with me to a small sampling of the many historic moments captured in those iconic images that are seared in our memories.

FDR and Stalin and Churchill at the summit; people with tears in their eyes standing by the railroad tracks as the train carried the body of President Roosevelt from Georgia to Washington; the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima; General MacArthur wading in the water as he returns to the Philippines as promised; a sailor kissing a woman in Times Square on VJ Day; a naked child running from the napalm attack in Vietnam; a police chief shooting a man in the head, also in Vietnam; or the picture of people fighting to get on the last helicopter leaving that country.
Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table at the United Nations, or the shot of Adlai Stevenson sitting with his legs crossed showing a big hole in the sole of his shoe; Khrushchev and President Nixon in the kitchen; President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, or Lee Harvey Oswald being killed by Jack Ruby, or LBJ being sworn in on Air Force One with a bloodied Jacqueline Kennedy at his side; little John Kennedy saluting his father's coffin; an Ambassador Hotel busboy kneeling over a fatally wounded Bobby Kennedy; Dr. King leading the march in Selma; Bull Connor turning the dogs loose against the marchers; the faces of four children killed in a Birmingham church; tens of thousands gathered in Washington to hear "I Have a Dream"; the fallen body of Dr. King at a Memphis motel; George Wallace standing in the door of an Alabama school. [more]