[rodrics]

Eddie Adams took these pictures in 1969 and won the Pulitzer Prize for spot news.

It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph – the picture of police chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyễn Văn Lém, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive.

Adams won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and a World Press Photo award for the photograph (captioned 'General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon'), but would later lament its notoriety.[6] Writer and critic David D. Perlmutter points out that 'no film footage did as much damage as AP photographer Eddie Adams's 35mm shot taken on a Saigon street ... When people talk or write about [the Tet Offensive] at least a sentence is devoted (often with an illustration) to the Eddie Adams picture'.

[Vanity]

Oh wow I have never seen the aftermath of this famous pic before

[papa smurf]

Theres a nasty video of this around too..

[yourroyaldudeness]

I SAID I WANTED GENERAL TSOS CHICKEN NOT SWEET AND SOUR!!!

[The Dude]

my hero

[ImAFuckHead]

So, uhh, whats going on here?

[methos666]

The unfortunate thing with this photo is that the mainstream media said it was proof of the barbaric savagery of the SOUTH Vietnamese. Why? Taken out of context...it looks like a military man executing a poor civilian.

The truth? He was a Viet Cong guerilla who had just had a hand in killing both South Vietnamese as well as American soldiers.

In the photographer's own words:

"The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?"

[Gojira]

[SJ]

Very nice.

[Brainplague]

Originally Posted by methos666 ↗

The unfortunate thing with this photo is that the mainstream media said it was proof of the barbaric savagery of the SOUTH Vietnamese. Why? Taken out of context...it looks like a military man executing a poor civilian.

The truth? He was a Viet Cong guerilla who had just had a hand in killing both South Vietnamese as well as American soldiers.

In the photographer's own words:

"The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them; but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American people?"

Well said.