Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

Venezuela, 1962

"The Priest and the Dying Soldier" is a famous photograph in which Navy chaplain Luis Padilla is seen giving last rites to a soldier who was wounded by sniper fire during the revolt. The image won the World Press Photo of the Year and the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Photography. In the background, there is a "carnicería," which can be translated as a "butcher's shop," "slaughter," or "carnage."

June 8, 1968

The man who assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr., James Earl Ray, is arrested in London, England. Ray was an American fugitive and felon convicted of murdering King at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968. He was convicted a year later and sentenced to 99 years in prison.

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