# Any famous...X-Rays? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 15, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-x-rays/188601 "2003-07-15T06:28:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-x-rays/188601/1 "2003-07-15T06:28:38Z")
OK, it’s a bit of a weird question, but…are there any really “famous” X-Rays? I mean, X-Rays taken of a notable person, or of a notable subject, or some such? The closest two I can think of are the [First X-Ray ever taken](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/dreamanatomy/da_g_Z-1.html), and the [X-Ray of Hitler’s skull](http://www.pro.gov.uk/virtualmuseum/millennium/war/hitler/default.htm). In short, is there an equivilant of National Geographic’s “Afgan Refugee Girl” photo in the Radiologists’ community? Ranchoth (On second thought, “Weird” is putting it far too mildly) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-x-rays/188601/2 "2003-07-15T11:47:42Z")
I don’t know if they’re considered famous, but I’ve seen x-rays of a man who tried to smuggle a collapsible revolver into a prison. He had inserted it into a place metaphorically reknowned for the absense of sunlight. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-x-rays/188601/3 "2003-07-15T14:11:40Z")
Don’t know of “famous X-rays”, but I know of some striking ones. There’s the X-ray of a hand struck by shot (the lead shot shows up as small dots all around the bones) taken in the first decade of X-Ray use. A reproduction of it hangs on the wall on the first floor of the Green Physics building at MIT. There’s a full-body X-Ray of a dressed woman in the Science Museum in Rochester, N.Y. You can see her jewelry all over her body. Then, of course, there’s one bona-fide “famous” X-ray of the DNA Double helix, an x-ray diffraction photo. But I don’t think that’s what you had in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-x-rays/188601/4 "2003-07-15T16:34:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > \*\*He had inserted it into a place metaphorically reknowned for the absense of sunlight. \*\* He hid it in Seattle? ---
**Author:** ![kaycee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@kaycee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaycee)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-x-rays/188601/5 "2003-07-15T16:42:29Z")
Retired X-ray/Mammo tech. here I have a few “cute films” Best one is of a Vibrator stuck (wonder where) and it’s blurry, 'cause it’s still running! OOPPPSSSS! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-x-rays/188601/6 "2003-07-15T18:24:47Z")
The missing JFK x-rays are famous. To the Oliver Stone set, anway. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-x-rays/188601/7 "2003-07-15T22:10:49Z")
Well I remember [this one.](http://www.nationallampoon.com/flashbacks/oc&stiggs/ocschapter5a.html) Ouch ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2003, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-famous-x-rays/188601/8 "2003-07-15T22:59:40Z")
I was going come in here with a link to [Phineas Gage](http://www.deakin.edu.au/hbs/GAGEPAGE/)’s X-Ray, but sadly, it was before the first x-ray. But [here’s](http://mitglied.lycos.de/aktaper/simpsons_xray800-gross.jpg) a good one. 🙂