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Saigon Execution. Saigon Execution [a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém [b] [c] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon.
The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phúc Story, the Photograph and the Vietnam War, by Denise Chong, is a 1999 biographical and historical book tracing the life story of Phúc. Chong's historical coverage emphasizes the life, especially the school and family life, of Phúc from before the attack, through convalescence, and into the present time.
Donald Goldstein, a retired Air Force colonel and a co-author of a prominent Vietnam War photojournalism book, The Vietnam War: The Stories and The Photographs, says of Burst of Joy, "After years of fighting a war we couldn't win, a war that tore us apart, it was finally over, and the country could start healing." [5]
Pages in category "Vietnam War photographers" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph—that of police chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, summarily executing Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Vietcong prisoner of war. This occurred on a Saigon street on February 1, 1968, [8] [9] during the early part of the Tet Offensive.
It has been called the "best photo from the war"; it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and was featured in the 2017 documentary The Vietnam War. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In May 1968, during Operation Toan Thang I , an American-led offensive against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in Saigon , Greenspon was wounded in the face by a spent shell at ...
Burrows went on to become a photographer and covered the war in Vietnam from 1962 until his death in 1971. [9]One of Burrows' most famous images was published first in a Life magazine article on 16 April 1965 named One Ride with Yankee Papa 13, about a mission on 31 March 1965.