You must be young. The papers and magazines and even the TV news used to run pictures far worse that this all the time. They weren’t afraid to present the public with reality. Today it’s OK for the movies and TV to show unrealistic fake gore and nobody says a word.
Actually, I remember where I was when the news came that Kennedy had been assassinated.
It’s not the dead body in the photo as much as all those police & officials standing around gazing, yes ghoulishly, at it and not doing much of anything else. Who’s snapping photos for evidence? How many does it take to process the scene & arrange for body removal to where the autopsy will be performed?
FWIW, I saw far worse in Vietnam.