Martyr of the Year
Photograph
Martyr of the Year
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 3/8 × 9 7/16 in. (16.2 × 23.9 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0136
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: 12/61 28) MARTYR OF THE YEAR: Dag Hammarskjold, here sitting in \ solitary reflection during one of the UN's interminable debates on the \ Congo, died September 18 in an African forest when his plane crashed on \ a mission to make peace with Katangan President Moise Tshombe. His loss \ was immediately mourned around the world. \ Credit: Inge Morath © 1961 MAGNUM PHOTOS
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