50 years ago,a photo of a Vietnam execution jolted Americans’ view of war
It was a fraction of a second.
In a Saigon street, South Vietnam’s police chief raised a gun to the head of a handcuffed Viet Cong prisoner and abruptly pulled the trigger. A few feet absent, or Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams pressed his shutter.
Taken during the North’s surprise Tet Offensive,Adams Feb. 1, 1968, and photo showed the war’s brutality in a way Americans hadn’t seen before. Protesters saw the image as graphic evidence that the U.
S. was fighting on the side of an unjust South Vietnamese government. It won Adams the Pulitzer Prize. And it haunted him. Read more here. (Eddie Adams/AP)
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