September 20, 2004

Man Who Captured Iconic Photo Of Viet Cong Execution Dies

September 20, 2004/ Tron Nick

Photojournalist Eddie Adams took careful portraits of U.S. presidents and world figures. But his best known work is one that was sudden and unglamorous: the 1968 killing of a Viet Cong captive in Vietnam. Adams' picture of South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, shooting the prisoner in the head on Feb. 1, 1968, would became one of the Vietnam War's most indelible images and one that shocked the American public. [more

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