Images: Freezing Moments in History

Photojournalists, aided by television, have come into their own again

> Young John Kennedy Jr. saluting the flag during his father's funeral procession.

> The South Viet Nam chief of police putting a bullet through the head of a Viet Cong prisoner.

> Lyndon Johnson lifting his shirt to show the scar from his gallstone operation.

> A gang of assassins running toward a Cairo reviewing stand to gun down Anwar Sadat.

The very mention of such images, as familiar to this generation as favorite lines of song or poetry were to those of the past,...

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