Saigon Vietnam Execution-Shot in Head-5x7 Pulitzer Prize Winning Photo-

Description

Quality
Pulitzer Prize
Winning Photos
Photo Reproductions
5X7 BORDERLESS PHOTOS
TITLE:
5x7 Pulitzer Prize Winning Photo-Saigon Vietnam Execution
DESCRIPTION:
Saigon Execution
1969 Pulitzer Prize, Spot News Photography, Edward Adams, Associated Press
Jan. 30. 1968. North Vietnamese communists launch their massive Tet offensive, bringing the fighting right into the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon. Thirty-six hours later. Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams, working with an NBC News crew, comes upon two South Vietnamese soldiers escorting a prisoner through the streets of Saigon.
They walked him down to the street corner. We were taking pictures. He turned out to be a Viet Cong lieutenant. And out of nowhere came this guy who we didn't know. I was about five feet away and he pulled out his pistol."
The man with the pistol is Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of South Vietnam's national police. It all happens very fast: The general raises his pistol. Adams raises his camera. Loan presses his pistol against the prisoner's temple. He fires. Adams releases the shutter.
Loan "'shot him in the head and walked away." Adams remembers. "And walked by us and said, "They killed many of my men and many of our people."' For Loan, the shooting is an act of justice: The Viet Cong lieutenant had just murdered a South Vietnamese colonel, his wife and their six children.
The American anti-war movement adopts the photograph as a symbol of the excesses of the war. But Adams feels his picture is misunderstood. "If you re this man. this general, and you just caught this guy after he killed some of your people.... How do you know you wouldn't have pulled that trigger yourself? You have to put yourself in that situation----It's a war."
Fine quality, 5x7 photo on premium glossy paper. Borderless
NOTE: This photo may have been slightly cropped for size.
We do not believe it affects the integrity of the original.
Domestic Fast and FREE Shipping via First Class Mail
Worldwide International Shipping .75
Additional Photos Shipped Together FREE
Be sure to add me to your
favorites list
!
BUY ANY 3 OR MORE PHOTOS AND SAVE AN
Additional 15% - MUST BE ADDED TO CART