Images in the media that have stayed with you

[KenAdams]

For me it's:

• the Syrian boy on the beach
• Leah Betts
• Millie Dowler at the ironing board

The boy on the beach for sure, haunting

Hmm. I don't have a very visual memory, so not much. I can picture Madeliene McCann's face because I've seen it so often. Oh, and the smoking twin towers.

The falling man, 9/11

For me:

• Twin Towers smoking - probably my most visual memory of the news.
• Syrian boy on the beach
• Jessica and Holly (And Ian Huntley's face)
• I don't know the name of this one, but in Ireland when our soldiers were over there. The image of the man from the car that had taken a wrong turn, him on his knees just before he was shot. That very raw moment of witnessing the final seconds before someone's life ended always has haunted me.

The Syrian boy's name was Alan Kurdi.

Baylee Almon. Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995. 1 year and 1 day old.

The ones mentioned above, but also

The man and the boy pictured next to a car containing a bomb in Omaha

The court photo of Theresa Riggi - mainly because she wore the same suit as she wore in the "happy family" picture of the kids she killed.

Luke Mitchel at Jodi Jones graveside - the gall he had while denying murder.

The Pan Am nose cone in Lockerbie

Mothers outside Dunblane primary

Jamie Bulger being led away....

Oh yes the Twin Towers. I remember getting home and turning on the TV to the replay of the plane hitting the tower. Except after a few moments of silence, the reporter said "that was a second plan hitting the other tower", not a replay 😢

Ds was newborn for 9/11, I had been asleep and woke up and genuinely thought a film had started(volume down), took me a while to get my head around what I was seeing.

For me it's the pictures of the people jumping out from the Twin Towers. Utterly heartbreaking.

Hillsborough. There was a close up on the front page of faces in the crowd being crushed against the barrier. Those poor people.

The February 1968 Saigon execution pictures. Probably would not be shown now in the media.

Lockerbie - the massive crater and the nose cone.

Herald of Free Enterprise on its side in the dark.

The commuter with the face mask/dressing after the 7/7 bombs.

A girl who'd died after a heroin overdose - in a kneeling position - and her parents bravely wanted the picture out there as a deterrent.

And 9/11 of course - I was off sick that day and couldn't take my eyes off the news.

The February 1968 Saigon execution pictures. Probably would not be shown now in the media.

I think I knew the ones you mean and I think I've actually seen it quite recently on something.

Also along those lines, the young Vietnamese girl running naked after (I believe) a napalm attack.

The Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics.

The class photo of Dunblane. I remember it being on front page with dead survived etc and the names of each child printed by their picture. I went through each one with my DBro who was about 7 at the time and he asked me 'did they live?' Heartbreaking.

Madeleine McCann

Ella, one of the Sandy Hook victims

I was very young (90’s) so can’t remember her name but the photo of the teenager who died from taking ecstasy, in ICU before she died.

Not a photo but a news report in Italy where the reporter and cameraman literally chased the mother of a murder victim up the stairs of her apartment block trying to get a comment from her. She was crying and running while they followed her all the way to the door. It was awful and made me glad I’d never seen anything like it in British media.

Tiananmen Square - the Lone protestor and the tanks

Also before I was even born but Mary Ann Vecchio, the 14 year old runaway kneeling over one of the students fatally shot at Kent State (during anti war demo) but it’s just that sort of photo, once seen never forgotten

I wasn't born at the time but watching the documentary a few weeks ago about the Lockerbie disaster and one of the victim's mother's collapsing on the floor screaming "my baby". Haunting

I first heard about it on MN - the lady that was killed by a male serial killer. He took a photo of her and she’s wearing a long dark dress and recoiling.

Kevin Carter's picture of a starving child in Sudan with a vulture waiting nearby haunts me. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b8/Kevin-Carter-Child-Vulture-Sudan.jpg

MsMamaNature - I was going to say that one too. Absolutely the most utterly heart wrenching photo ever taken - to the extent that I can't even bring myself to open the link to view it again. I believe that the guy that took it killed himself a few years later because he couldn't cope with the fact that he didn't take steps to save the boy.

The Jordanian man in the cage captured by isis with fire coming towards him