Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. The general killed the Viet Cong I killed the general with my camera. Two people died in that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. On Loan and his photograph, Adams wrote in Time in 1998: Īdams would later lament the impact of the photo. Furthermore, Winslow noted that Adams "wanted me to understand that 'Saigon Execution' was not his most important picture and that he did not want his obituary to begin, 'Eddie Adams, the photographer best known for his iconic Vietnam photograph "Saigon Execution "' ". However, Donald Winslow of The New York Times quoted Adams as having described the image as a "reflex picture" and "wasn't certain of what he'd photographed until the film was developed". She wrote that "he would not have carried out the summary execution there had they not been available to witness it" and positioned himself in profile view with the prisoner facing the cameras. In Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), Susan Sontag was disturbed by what she saw as Loan's staging of the execution in the street for journalists' photographs. Nguyen Tuan and his family shortly prior he also wrote that American historian Ed Moise "is convinced that the entire story of Lém murdering the Tuan family is a post-war invention" and that "The truth will never be known." Max Hastings, writing in 2018, said that Lém was alleged to have personally executed South Vietnamese Lt. Bernstein "determined that the brutality manifested by America's ally be put into perspective, agreed to run the Adams picture large, but offset with a picture of a child slain by Vietcong, which conveniently came through from AP at about the same time." Nonetheless, it is Adams's photograph that is remembered while the other image was overlooked and soon forgotten. Morris recalls that assistant managing editor Theodore M. Īnticipating the impact of Adams's photograph, an attempt at balance was sought by editors at The New York Times.
When people talk or write about at least a sentence is devoted (often with an illustration) to the Eddie Adams picture". Perlmutter points out that "no film footage did as much damage as AP photographer Eddie Adams's 35mm shot taken on a Saigon street . This took place on a Saigon street on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet Offensive.Īdams won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and a World Press Photo award for the photograph. It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph-that of police chief General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, summarily executing Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Vietcong prisoner. Adams' photograph of Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968
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