Photos that changed the world.

BERLIN—A young man bridges the wall between East and West Berlin, 1989.

ARLINGTON, Va.—Jan Rose Kasmir confronts the National Guard outside the Pentagon during the 1967 anti-Vietnam War march, 1967.

BEIJING, China—Tiananmen Square, 1989.

SHARPEVILLE, South Africa—Police open fire on a crowd, killing more than 70 and injuring hundreds of others during what came to be known as the Sharpeville massacre, 1960.

SOUTH CAROLINA—A funeral of a soldier killed in Vietnam, 1966.

MOSCOW—Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon’s kitchen debate, 1959.

ARLINGTON, Va.—Jacqueline Kennedy at John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s funeral, Nov. 25, 1963.

BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Young people watch a huge plume of smoke rise from lower Manhattan after the attack on the World Trade Center, Sept. 11, 2001.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A female protester being arrested and led away by police, 1963.

GAZA STRIP—A Palestinian man prays in Khan Younis camp. He awaits permission to pass through an Israeli checkpoint at the entrance of Gush Oatif, 2003.

SAIGON, Vietnam—The Saigon fire department, which has the job of collecting the dead from city streets, has just placed a girl, killed by U.S. helicopter fire, in the back of their truck, where her brother finds her, 1968.

SAN FRANCISCO—AIDS at the Ambassador Hotel. James has been living with AIDS since 1985. He moved into the hotel three years ago. It's the longest time he has lived anywhere, 1993.

FRANCE—D-Day, Omaha Beach, 1944.

TEHRAN, Iran—Veiled women learn how to shoot in the outskirts of the city, 1986.

POLAND—Teresa, a child in a residence for disturbed children, grew up in a concentration camp. She has drawn a picture of "home" on the blackboard, 1948.

WASHINGTON, D.C.—At the climax of his “I Have A Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. raises his arm on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and calls out for deliverance with the electrifying words of an old Negro spiritual hymn, “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”, 1963.

PARIS—Students hurl projectiles during the May 1968 student protest.

NORTH CAROLINA—A black man drinks at segregated water fountains, 1950.

NEW YORK—James Dean alone in Times Square, 1955.

SANTA CLARA, Cuba—Fidel Castro lifts a young admirer during the revolution, 1959.

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia—Warsaw Pact troops invade Prague near the radio headquarters, 1968.

HIROSHIMA, Japan—The center of the atomic bomb blast. A Japanese soldier walks through a site where an army barracks once stood, 1945.


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