10 Fascinating Last Pictures Taken

ListVerse.com ^ | November 13, 2008 | unknown

[Daffynition]

The words “Last picture taken” before his or her death conjure up many emotions, whether in front of the camera or behind it. This list consists of 10 last time stamps in history taken of and by some fascinating individuals. If anyone has new or conflicting information concerning the photos or information in this list I hope you will share it in your comments. [sic]

[Daffynition]

Wiley Post & Will Rogers

1898 –1935, 1879 - 1935

Wiley Post who was the first pilot to fly solo around the world and his good friend Will Rogers a famous comedian, humorist and social commentator were set out to fly around the world together. This photo (that’s Will Rogers in the hat and tie, standing on the wing) was taken on August 15, 1935 shortly before taking off from a lagoon near Point Barrow Alaska. During take off Post’s experimental Lockheed Explorer sea plane crashed when its engine failed killing both men.

Interesting Fact: The airport in Barrow Alaska was renamed Wiley Post - Will Rogers Memorial Airport.

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John and Jackie Knill

On January 13, 2005 the bodies of Canadian couple John and Jackie Knill were discovered on a Thailand beach resort. They were two of the many victims killed from the December 26 2004 tsunami. Weeks later a Seattle man doing relief work found a damaged camera and discarded it but kept the memory card in the camera. After downloading the images he discovered pictures of the Knill’s enjoying their vacation, as well as shots of a huge wave approaching the shore. With each picture it shows the wave getting closer and closer to shore. The last picture taken of them before the wave hit (shown above) was shot just after 8.30 am on December 26.

Interesting Fact: The Seattle man that discovered the images recognized the Knills from a missing person’s web site and contacted the couple’s two sons in Vancouver Canada. The man then drove from Seattle to Vancouver to give the sons their parent’s last images.

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[tutstar]

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[SkyPilot]

The photograph above is the last known picture of Einstein, taken in March, 1955. There are not a lot of details concerning this photo but he is probably at his home near Princeton, New Jersey. A month later on April 17, 1955, Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurysm, which had previously been diagnosed and reinforced. He went to the hospital and took a draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel’s seventh anniversary with him. Unfortunately he did not live long enough to complete it. The following day Einstein died at the age of 76.

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Rage Boy is not pleased a Jew was smarter than he was.

[Silly]

DO NOT WANT!

[beckysueb]

God rest their souls but what kind of idiots just stand there taking pictures while a huge wall of water comes rushing at them.

[submarinerswife]

Great list. I was struck most by the photo taken by the photog on 9/11.....killed 20 seconds later. And the Ann Frank photo with her sister.

Very good post, Daffy!!

[submarinerswife]

I guess that they didn’t realize what was happening?? Maybe transfixed by the awesomeness of such a phenom?

[shineon]

Thanks for the post. I’ll remember not to do that.

[Daffynition]

I think that with the advent of digital photography, instant access for publication, coupled with ‘home video’ contests and people being people, looking for their 15 minutes, we’ll see more of this kind of accident waiting to happen.

[shineon]

[beckysueb]

Well transfixed is one thing; running for their life is what most people would do, I would think.

[mylife]

I cant find them, but there are pics of some hikers before they were killed by lightning.

They were all laughing and taking pics of each other as their hair stood on end. They just didnt realize what was going on.

[martin_fierro]

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[submarinerswife]

Maybe they realized that running wasn’t going to help.

[ottbmare]

Good heavens, why were those people standing and taking pictures of that horrible wave instead of running and climbing something? It may have been useless to try to run, but I sure-God would have tried instead of doing photography. That is a very big wave.

[Daffynition]

Search is not finding an article posted [I may have posted it too] 9/11: Five Years Later which as a stand alone photo, tells volumes.

Ed Fine (World Trade Center ‘dust man’)

THEN
A businessman who worked at New York-based Intercapital Planning Corp., Ed Fine became widely known on 9/11 from a photograph that depicted him covered in dust, napkin held to his nose and mouth while still clutching his briefcase. Head bowed and his dark suit turned a light gray, Fine shuffled through ankle-deep debris from the tower that had just collapsed. A clock behind him displayed the time: 10:14 a.m.

Fine was waiting for an elevator on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the building. Thinking a bomb had gone off, Fine and others made their way down the emergency stairs. Fine reached the street and began to walk away from the World Trade Center when the South Tower collapsed at 10:05 a.m., engulfing everything in the area in a cloud of smoke and debris.

There, photographer Stan Honda of Agence France-Presse took his picture, an image used by Web sites, newspapers and magazines around the world. Days later, a friend told Fine his photo was on the cover of Fortune magazine.

“I was focused in on: I must get uptown, I must keep surviving, I must walk,” Fine told the “Today” show. “And I wasn’t looking or thinking about anything other than surviving.”

NOW
Fine, who is married and has two grown children, lives in suburban New Jersey. He operates two businesses with his son Stuart, EIF Capital Services and consulting firm Carpe DM, a play on “carpe diem,” Latin for “seize the day.”

“I believe I was saved for a reason, but I don't know what that reason is,” Fine told the Toronto-based Globe and Mail newspaper. “I believe that everything is in some way interconnected -– all the inches and seconds of our lives. You don’t know how, but they are.”
-- Bruno Navarro

[submarinerswife]

WOW

[dfwgator]

[yazoo]

Last one of my Grandfather is him holding a beer as he put the car into gear.

[CurlyBill]

Marking for later reading.