 A battle @-@ hardened Huntley @-@ Brinkley reporter later said that no military action he had witnessed had ever frightened or disturbed him as much as what he saw in Birmingham . Two out @-@ of @-@ town photographers in Birmingham that day were Charles Moore , who had previously worked with the Montgomery Advertiser and was now working for Life magazine , and Bill Hudson , with the Associated Press . Moore was a Marine combat photographer who was " jarred " and " sickened " by the use of children and what the Birmingham police and fire departments did to them . Moore was hit in the ankle by a brick meant for the police . He took several photos that were printed in Life . The first photo Moore shot that day showed three teenagers being hit by a water jet from a high @-@ pressure firehose . It was titled " They Fight a Fire That Won 't Go Out " . A shorter version of the caption was later used as the title for Fred Shuttlesworth 's biography . The Life photo became an " era @-@ defining picture " and was compared to the photo of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima . Moore suspected that the film he shot " was likely to obliterate in the national psyche any notion of a ' good southerner ' . " Hudson remarked later that his only priorities that day were " making pictures and staying alive " and " not getting bit by a dog . " 
