40 Stunning Images Taken Before Tragedy Hit

9. Last Stunt

Ten seconds after this photo was taken, Russian daredevil Andrey Retrovsky had performed his very last stunt as he accidentally fell from the roof of a nine-storey building in the city of Vologda.

10. Televised Suicide

Budd Dwyer, the Treasurer of Pennsylvania during that time, called a news conference on January 22, 1987. Everyone was shocked when Dwyer pulled out a 357 Magnum revolver, and shot himself. Hence, his suicide was televised. This photo was taken at the moment he took the gun out.

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