My favorite Sports Illustrated cover.
Being up here in Knoxville, TN, having this cover as a desktop image is sure to guarantee a few growls. 
IIRC, most major sports in America shut down for the week. NFL, MLB, college sports, etc.
The best 9/12/01 newspaper frontpage. I’d so like to have a copy of that framed and on my wall.
Is it weird that I’m terribly happy they don’t know who the soldier or the nurse are? It makes it so much more iconographic that way - that’s not Joe Smith and Anne Jones of 123 Somewhere Lane - that’s all of America in a snapshot!
As for the OP, I’ll cast a vote for the Linnart Nilsson photo of a fetus on the cover of Life magazine back in 1965. I wasn’t born until 1974, but my mother had that issue, as well as Nilsson’s book, and I would look at those photos over and over again. Truly groundbreaking work, and a very fitting photo for a magazine called “Life”.
Do you mean View of the World from Ninth Avenue?
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There is a book called “September 11, 2001” which is just the front pages of newspapers covering 9/11. It includes that one.
This Sunday Times Magazine cover of breast cancer survivor photograph Matuschka raised some eyebrows (and some people complained about the “porn”).
Not covers AFAIK, but both of those photos won Pulitzer Prizes and were very widely published. The Kent State photo was taken by John Paul Filo (who I met years ago, he was a student at Kent when he took the photo and was, I believe, the youngest person to win the Pulitzer at the time) and was awarded the Prize in 1971. The napalm photo was taken in Trang Bang and received the Prize in 1973.