Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/10

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Subject: [Leica] Best known photo ?
From: paul at paulhardycarter.com (Paul Hardy Carter)
Date: Mon May 10 16:45:40 2004
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Seems to me that act should damn well have ended his career - at the very least.

Interesting comparative situation with the recent foul images emanating from Baghdad.

P.

At 18:09 -0500, 10/5/04, R. Clayton McKee wrote:
>
>That's about the size of it... The man who was shot was in fact a VC
>captain in plain clothes and had been caught in the act of killing a
>member of the RVN national policeman, possibly a high-ranking one (by
>one report a personal friend of General Loan, the executioner) and
>his family.   General Loan later said he wished he hadn't done it,
>because that photograph and that act pretty much destroyed his
>career.
>
>               Albest,
>
>                        Clayton
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