On November 22, 1963, a motorcade was driving President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy as they were heading through Dallas. This is the final image taken of JFK while he was still alive. He was shot and killed by assassin Harvey Lee Oswald, who was posed at the school book depository building, just moments later.
In 1970, 14-year-old Australian Keith Sapsford inexplicably hid in the wheel well of a Japan-bound flight out of Sydney. An amateur photographer testing his new camera lens unintentionally captured the young boy’s free-fall to his death. He dropped an estimated 200 feet until he hit the ground without living to tell the tale.
In 1961, a Boeing 707 aircraft crashed while traveling from New York City to Belgium. 73 people were killed in the tragic crash. This tally, unfortunately, included the entire U.S. figure skating team, which was en route to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague. Here, the team looks happy to be embarking on their journey.