There are some images that simply need no elaboration. This is one of them. It’s a prayer session in a government building in Belgrade in May 1999, taken after the Yugoslav government graciously agreed to release three American soldiers it had taken hostage.

From left to right: Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who was later charged with war crimes but died before his trial ended; the Rev. Jesse Jackson; and U.S. Rep. Rod Blagojevich, who is now governor of Illinois and facing federal corruption charges for allegedly trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat, among other things.