[shadowstein]

All of these are from my personal collection. I've been collection these for about 8 years and hope to grow my collection. names have been censored, or given a false name to comply with site rules. much of the info provided is word for word.





I have little information on this other than it is from the 1940's. EBAY does not preserve purchase histories older than 3 years so the information may be lost forever

from what i can observe, it is a young black male with one arm and one leg who has perished beside a railroad track. He doesn't appear to have been hit by a train or died jumping from one, or his belongings would have been scattered. A sad, lonely, but otherwise peaceful death.

i would like to hear your observations and deductions regarding this unfortunate boy.

Not a gory death photo, but possibly the most historically significant photo from my collection.
this is a crime scene photo from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

from the FBI's official website:
On February 26, 1993, at about 17 minutes past noon, a thunderous explosion rocked lower Manhattan.

The epicenter was the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, where a massive eruption carved out a nearly 100-foot crater several stories deep and several more high.

Six people were killed almost instantly. Smoke and flames began filling the wound and streaming upward into the building. Those who weren’t trapped were soon pouring out of the building—many panic-stricken and covered in soot. More than a thousand people were hurt in some way, some badly, with crushed limbs.

Middle Eastern terrorism had arrived on American soil—with a bang.

As a small band of terrorists scurried away from the scene unnoticed, the FBI and its partners on the New York Joint Terrorism Task Force began staffing up a command center and preparing to send in a team to investigate. Their instincts told them that this was terrorism—they’d been tracking Islamic fundamentalists in the city for months and, they’d later learn, were tantalizingly close to encountering the planners of this attack. But hunches weren’t enough; what was needed was definitive proof.

They’d have it soon enough. The massive investigation that followed—led by the task force, with some 700 FBI agents worldwide ultimately joining in—quickly uncovered a key bit of evidence. In the rubble investigators uncovered a vehicle identification number on a piece of wreckage that seemed suspiciously obliterated.

A search of our crime records returned a match: the number belonged to a rented van reported stolen the day before the attack. An Islamic fundamentalist named Mohammad Salameh had rented the vehicle, we learned, and on March 4, an FBI SWAT team arrested him as he tried in vain to get his $400 deposit back.

One clue led to another and we soon had in custody three more suspects—Nidal Ayyad, Mahmoud Abouhalima, and Ahmed Ajaj. We’d also found the apartment where the bomb was built and a storage locker containing dangerous chemicals, including enough cyanide gas to wipe out a town. All four men were tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison.

The shockwave from the attack continued to reverberate. Following the unfolding connections, the task force soon uncovered a second terrorist plot to bomb a series of New York landmarks simultaneously, including the U.N. building, the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, and the federal plaza where our office in New York is housed. On June 24, 1994, FBI agents stormed a warehouse in Queens and caught several members of a terrorist cell in the act of assembling bombs.

Meanwhile, the mastermind of the World Trade Center bombing was still on the run—and up to no good. We’d learned his name—Ramzi Yousef—within weeks after the attack and discovered he was planning more attacks, including the simultaneous bombing of a dozen U.S. international flights.

Yousef was captured in Pakistan in February 1995, returned to America, and convicted along with the van driver, Eyad Ismoil. A seventh plotter, Abdul Yasin, remains at large.

We later learned from Yousef that his Trade Center plot was far more sinister. He wanted the bomb to topple one tower, with the collapsing debris knocking down the second. The attack turned out to be something of a deadly dress rehearsal for 9/11; with the help of Yousef’s uncle Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al Qaeda would later return to realize Yousef’s nightmarish vision.

source:https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-c...r-bombing-1993

"International News Photos Slug(Vail Plunge)
Lawyer Caught in Six-Story Plunge in St. Louis. Vail, lawyer of Pontiac, Illinois is shown in mid-air as he plunged from the sixth floor of the hotel Warwick, where he was a guest, in St. Louis today. Vail was caught by the camera. He was also caught by a Fireman's rescue net, but suffered a back injury. Some 200 person's saw the plunge after Vail had broken his hotel room window and tossed furniture out of his room." 1/23/1953

[kellyhound]

Great stuff. The boy at the railroad tracks has 2 crutches laying next to him so he had two arms to use them so i guess he was grazed by a train and died. Also his clothes are ripped.

More about the mastermind of a load of terror attacks and his life on American soil: https://www.npr.org/2009/11/18/12051...s-college-days

[K53]

Poor boy lying by the tracks. Looking at him, he still had his entire life in frontof

[Bastet]

Another great selection, thanks! I also find the boy beside the railway track a very saddening sight.