22 Images From the Darker Side of History
Despite our high school teachers' painstakingly crafted curriculums, there's a whole lot more to history than your AP Euro exam. Just ask the brave camerapeople who snapped these photos, ones depicting war, terror, and the darkest parts of our human history.
From an ominously worded tourist brochure to off-duty serial killers and even a glimpse at former First Lady Jackie Kennedy moments after her husband, President John F. Kennedy's assassination, here are 22 harrowing images from the darker side of history.
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“The liquidators worked in the immediate vicinity of the damaged reactor. Tschernobyl 1986.”
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“A Serbian soldier sleeps with his father who came to visit him on the front line near Belgrade, 1914/1915.”
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“An excavation of victims at one of Californian serial killer Juan Corona's burial sites, 1972.”
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“[German] Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels before and after finding out a photographer was Jewish.”
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“The legend of Charlie No-Face spread among children of 1960s Pennsylvania like wildfire. Otherwise known as The Green Man, this faceless figure was said to roam the roadways at night and glow green as the result of an industrial accident. While the legend was eerie enough, the truth was far scarier — and all the more tragic. The story begins with eight-year-old Raymond Robinson who, in 1919, accidentally shocked himself with 11,000 volts of electricity, causing his face to all but explode. He survived despite sustaining disfiguring injuries to his face and arms, then became a hermit by day to avoid ridicule over his appearance.”
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“Lyndon B. Johnson stands next to Jacqueline Kennedy while he's sworn in as President after the assassination of JFK. (1963).”
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“Yossi Ghinsberg, the day he was found, having been lost alone in the Amazon for three weeks. 1981.”
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“In 1901, French police received an anonymous tip that a woman was being held captive. Officers found a 55-pound prisoner named Blanche Monnier, pictured here just after her discovery. She had been trapped against her will in that room for 25 years - by her very own mother.”
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“34-year-old Homer Peel kisses his 12-year-old bride on the courthouse steps in Madisonville, Tennessee, 1937.”
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“The message in lipstick left on Frances Brown's flat wall by The Lipstick Killer in 1945: ‘For heaven's Sake, catch me Before I kill more I cannot control myself.’”
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“Christmas Day 1981. Seen in this photo is Kerri Rawson and her father Dennis Rader, better known to the world as serial killer BTK.”
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