July 22, 1975 marked a turning point in the career of Boston Herald photographer Stanley Foreman. Foreman was finishing a normal day of photography in the city when he received a call about a fire. The fire was located in the oldest part of the city. It was said that people may be trapped inside the building. Foreman followed fire trucks to the scene. Instinctively he went behind the terraced houses. There he saw firefighter Bob O'Neil trying to rescue two people trapped on the fifth-floor fire escape. A 2-year-old girl and her 19-year-old godmother were clinging to the fire escape waiting to be rescued. Foreman put himself in a position to capture images of what he expected to be a routine rescue. But to his surprise there was a loud noise that changed everything. The fire escape gave way before O'Neil could save the girl and her godmother. O'Neil was moments away from saving the two girls. Foreman captured this event through the lens of his 135mm objective. He took four photos of the two falling, then turned around before they hit the ground. The godmother, Diana Bryant, broke the fall of young Tiare Jones, but lost her life a couple of hours later, Tiare survived. Forman learned that Bryant had died within hours of developing and delivering his photos to the newspaper. With Bryant now dead he wasn't sure if the newspaper would publish the photos. But the next morning at 2am he saw the morning's first edition with his photo covering almost the entire front page. And the rest of his photos were on page 3. Foreman then went ahead and made a series of prints for the Associated Press by 4:00. And his photos went around the world the next day. The release of the photos led many cities to improve inspection and ma......middle of paper......had such amazing instincts that it could not go unnoticed. But when the news came that Bryant had died, a little more sensitivity should have been added. If both victims were alive, I believe the photo would have every right to take up the entire front page. Their survival should have been celebrated with a great story. But once one of the victims was declared dead, the picture should have eased. I think it should have been put on the front page anyway, but in a nicer size. In the end, however, I believe that an adequate amount of information was disclosed. The public depends on the media to be informed of the dangers. And in this case that's exactly what Foreman did. He may have done it louder than necessary, but the story needed to be told. And to inform the public about the dangers associated with fire escapes it was necessary to tell the whole truth.