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In 1989 after a massacre by chinese troops from tiananmen square, one man squared off against a line of tanks. his identity has never been known. his brave stand never forgotten. pictures of war have had immense impact from the birth of photography. the civil war, world war i, world war ii. in vietnam modern media gave them more power. a monk setting himself ablaze. one being executed by a south vietnamese officer. a 9-year-old girl running away talking about that haunting scene. >> its my messa...

High school in arkansas. protests have produced some of the most enduring images. in 1989, after a massacre by chinese troops in tiananmen square, one man squared off against a line of tanks. his identity has never been known. his brave stand, never forgotten. pictures of war have had immense impact from the birth of photography. the civil war, world war i, world war ii, in vietnam, modern media gave them even more power, a monk setting himself ablaze. a vietcong assassin being executed by a sou...

Setting himself ablaze, a vietcong assassin being executed by a south vietnamese officer. a 9-year-old girl running from napalm. she spoke many years later about that haunting scene. >> its my message to people when they see that picture, try not see her as crying out in pain, in fear and try not to see her as a symbol of war but try to see her as a symbol for peace. >> reporter: and so another symbol joins the sad collection of split seconds in time that prove timeless, unimaginable and unforge...