Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/05

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Subject: [Leica] Adams's Saigon Execution
From: William Davis <wishda@weblnk.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 01:37:10 -0400
 
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> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 19:17:07 -0400
> From: "Nicholas Ragovis" <ragovisn@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Leica] Adams's Saigon Execution
> 
> I found this searching the web.  This is according to Vietnam Insight, which
> appears to be an anti-Vietnam government organization:
> 
> "Eddie Adams' photo of the prisoner, grimacing as he was shot, won a
> Pulitzer Prize for the Associated Press. NBC also showed film of the
> execution."
> 
> So, there may well be a film of the execution, if you trust the obituary
> they have up for the Saigon National Police Commander, Nguyen Ngoc Loan
> 
Not only is there film of it, but Eddie Adams is clearly visible in it.