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MikeLigalig.com · « **on:** April 12, 2012, 10:03:41 AM »

1995 Oklahoma City Bombing

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islander · « **Reply #1 on:** April 13, 2012, 09:52:10 AM »

the iconic photo of the oklahoma city bombing:

Her name is Baylee. She died.

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pioneer · « **Reply #2 on:** April 13, 2012, 09:55:51 AM »

baylee was one of the 21 innocent children who perished on that tragic day.

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islander · « **Reply #3 on:** April 13, 2012, 11:08:42 AM »

17 years after, though it had happened in a place far away, the thought still terrifies...

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islander · « **Reply #4 on:** April 13, 2012, 11:10:52 AM »

the weeping jesus at the memorial

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islander · « **Reply #5 on:** April 13, 2012, 11:38:44 AM »

Baylee Almon (1994-1995)

She had celebrated her first birthday the day before the blast. It was the image of her limp body being tenderly cradled by a firefighter that brought the horror of the moment home to America. http://www.people.com/

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islander · « **Reply #6 on:** April 13, 2012, 12:33:10 PM »

Picture power: Tragedy in Oklahoma

In the first of four pieces by photographers talking about their famous pictures, amateur Charles Porter describes how he captured the defining image of the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995. His pictures won a Pulitzer Prize.

I am talking about two photographs that I took on 19 April 1995 from the Oklahoma City bombing.

One being of a policeman handing an infant to a fireman and the other of a fireman gently cradling this lifeless infant.

I have these images in front of me here, looking at them now, and there are things that strike me.

One is that the fireman has taken the time to remove his gloves before receiving this infant from the policeman.

Anyone who knows anything about firefighters know that their gloves are very rough and abrasive and to remove these is like saying I want to make sure that I am as gentle and as compassionate as I can be with this infant that I don't know is dead or alive.

And the second image is of this fireman just cradling this infant with the utmost compassion and caring.

He is looking down at her with this longing, almost to say with his eyes: "It's going to be OK, if there's anything I can do I want to try to help you."

He doesn't know that she has already passed away.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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islander · « **Reply #7 on:** April 13, 2012, 12:38:05 PM »

Spring morning

And these images are in such contrast with the day.

It was such a beautiful, crisp, bright spring morning. And at 0902 it was just amazing.

Charles Porter

Our building shook and I looked out the window and saw this huge brown cloud of dust and debris and papers just flying in the air, and as I ran across towards the debris cloud, I turned this corner at the building and the street was covered with glass.

There were people on the street that were injured and bleeding, and there was a gentleman that was walking towards me who had taken his dress shirt off from the office building that he was in and had it to his head, and blood was dripping from that.

I just took my camera out and instinctively started taking pictures.

I ran to the front of the building and took some images of that, and as I ran back down the side, I noticed this ambulance where these firefighters were working on these people that were wounded and mortally wounded, and I noticed something out of the corner of my eye that was running across my field of vision.

I didn't know what it was, but I trained my camera on it and it was this police officer.

And as this policeman handed this infant to the fireman, I took one frame and then as the fireman is cradling this infant I took the second frame and that is exactly how these images came to be on 19 April 1995.

After I left I got my film developed and called a friend who was the head of photography at a local university.

I called him, and he said: "If you have images that have just happened, you need to go to somebody that wants to see them, like the Associated Press or somebody like that."

I looked the address up in the phone book, I got in my car. I drove over there. I knocked on the door and I went in and said: "Hi, I've got some images of what you're seeing on TV and wanted to know if you would like to look at them?"

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islander · « **Reply #8 on:** April 13, 2012, 12:43:03 PM »

Speechless

Wendel Hudson, who was the AP photo editor at Oklahoma City at the time, picked them out immediately and said: "We'd like to use these." And I thought: "Wow!"

It went out on the AP wire, and not knowing exactly what the AP wire is, I go home and I honestly went home and told my wife: "You know what, I just took some images and they might be in the Daily Oklahoma tomorrow."

I go home about 1300. About 1320 I get this phone call from this lady and she says: "Hi, I am so-and-so from the London Times and I want to know if you are Charles Porter."

I said: "Yes I am, but how do you know who I am?"

She said: "Well I just received your image over the AP wire..."

And she proceeded to explain to me what the Associated Press wire was.

I said that I didn't know how to respond and she said, "Well sir, can I ask you one question?" And this is where it hit home: "Could I get your reaction and response to what your feelings are going to be, knowing that your image is going to be over every newspaper and every magazine in the entire world tomorrow?"

I was silent and speechless, and chills go over me just to think about the magnitude and the enormity of where that picture went and the impact that picture had at that time.

It was beyond my scope of comprehension and understanding, way beyond.

Charles Porter gave this account to the BBC World Service programme, the World Today.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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islander · « **Reply #9 on:** April 13, 2012, 01:20:13 PM »

At 9:02, on April 19, 1995, Gulf War vet Timothy McVeigh detonated 4,800 lbs of fertilizer and fuel oil. The resulting blast destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal government Building and killed 168 people. The bombing, largest act of domestic terrorism, in America, shattered pre-911 Americaâ€™s innocence.

As the fires raged rescue services and bystanders rushed to pull victims out of the twisted wreckage. Sifting through the rubble, police officer Sgt. John Avera found a small half buried body. Shouting. "I have a critical infant! I have a critical infant!" he thrust the 1-year-old Baylee Almon into the arms of nearby firefighter Oklahoma City fire Capt. Chris Fields.

http://www.famouspictures.org/

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islander · « **Reply #10 on:** April 13, 2012, 01:21:48 PM »

The Firefighter
2005

Police officer Sgt. John Avera
thrusting the Baylee Almon into the
arms of Chris Fields

Capt. Chris Fields knew he had to be careful with his newfound fame. He knew of a fireman who took it too far. One in Texas had his 15min when he saved a baby trapped in a Texas well but when the publicity faded he couldnâ€™t take it and committed suicide. Even days after the picture was flashed around the world some of the men at his station started to grumble, "I did more rescues than he did". He could understand their attitude because of one picture; it was Chris, not them, who got to have breakfast with Tom Brokaw and Barbara Walters, and get free trips to New York and Los Angeles for TV interviews.

Chris by all accounts didnâ€™t let the attention go to his head; he didnâ€™t even consider himself a hero. How could he when everyone he tried to save that day was dead or died later of their injuries. The one thing he could do was being there for Aren (Almon, Baylee's mother). He thought Aren would find it was important that as he was the last one to hold Baylee. He felt it was his duty to comfort and protect her.

When resentful bombing victims vilified her on the TV news, he defended her. When she needed help to stop the exploitation of Bayleeâ€™s photo, he gave her names of lawyers. As time went on he felt more of a friend to Aren rather than Aren being just another one of his duties as a fireman.

***

Ten years after the bombing Chris Fields has gone from Capt. to Major and is the acting battalion chief with the fire department. The memories donâ€™t bother him but he dreads having to go through it again.

http://www.famouspictures.org/

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