On November 22, 1963, a motorcade was driving President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy as they were heading through Dallas. This is the final image taken of JFK while he was still alive. He was shot and killed by assassin Harvey Lee Oswald, who was posed at the school book depository building, just moments later.
In 1970, 14-year-old Australian Keith Sapsford inexplicably hid in the wheel well of a Japan-bound flight out of Sydney. An amateur photographer testing his new camera lens unintentionally captured the young boy’s free-fall to his death. He dropped an estimated 200 feet until he hit the ground without living to tell the tale.
A hiker named Darsh Patel was killed by a bear while hiking through New Jersey woods in 2014. He managed to capture images of this 300-pound animal right before it gored him to death. Patel’s phone was later recovered, although quite noticeably, with the bear’s teeth marks in it.
In 1961, a Boeing 707 aircraft crashed while traveling from New York City to Belgium. 73 people were killed in the tragic crash. This tally, unfortunately, included the entire U.S. figure skating team, which was en route to the World Figure Skating Championships in Prague. Here, the team looks happy to be embarking on their journey.
Russian daredevil Pavel Kashin is seen here as he attempts a backflip on a wall next to a 16-story drop. He lost his balance after he landed, and is about to plummet to his death in this photo.