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A crying woman, Phúc's grandmother, Tao, runs in the opposite direction holding her badly burned grandchild, 3-year-old Danh, Phúc's cousin, who died of his injuries (bottom-right frame). Sections of the film shot were included in Hearts and Minds (1974), the Academy Award -winning documentary about the Vietnam War directed by Peter Davis .
The woman also known as The Wild Child Photographer racked up 14 awards from This Is Reportage last year alone, and was named Number 1 on their Top 100 Photographers in the World 2024 list. So it ...
The National Personnel Records Center fire of 1973, [1] also known as the 1973 National Archives fire, was a fire that occurred at the Military Personnel Records Center (MPRC) in the St. Louis suburb of Overland, Missouri, from July 12–16, 1973. The fire destroyed some 16 million to 18 million official U.S. military personnel records.
Geraldine "Gerri" Santoro (née Twerdy; August 16, 1935 – June 8, 1964) was an American woman who died after attempting a self-induced abortion in 1964. A police photograph of her dead body, published by Ms. in 1973, became a symbol for the abortion-rights movement in the United States.
Debrina Kawam, the NYC subway passenger who was burned to death, was known to her classmates as “Debbie” or “Deb,” and graduated from Passaic Valley Regional School in Little Falls, New ...
The UpStairs Lounge attack was the largest in U.S. history to target the LGBTQ community until 2016, when it was surpassed by the Pulse nightclub massacre.
The only adult survivor of the massacre, 56-year-old village smith Yuzif Kaminsky (1887–1973), recovered consciousness with wounds and burns after the killers had left. He supposedly found his burned son, who later died in his arms. This incident was later commemorated with a statue at the Khatyn Memorial. [11]
The poor woman’s fiery death came just as Gov. Kathy Hochul sent 250 more National Guard troops into the Big Apple’s subway system for the holiday rush — swelling its $100 million subway ...