Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla [1968]


This picture was shot by Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer price with it. The picture shows Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam’s national police chief executing a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain. Once again the public opinion was turned against the war.

During the Fall of Saigon, Nguyen left Vietnam in 1975. He moved to Virginia and opened a pizza restaurant, but he had to give it up after his past had been disclosed to the public in 1991, with one patron writing “we know who you are” on a door in his restaurant. He died of cancer on July 14, 1998 in Burke, Virginia, a Washington, D.C., suburb.

Execution of a Viet Cong Guerrilla

Photographer: Eddie Adams
Source: life.com

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Comments:

5 Responses
freshy says:

Does anyone have a link to the video of this execution? I have seen it before

Saturday, August 25th, 2007 at 10:55 pm"  
eMarkLee » Blog Archive » Awwwwwww says:

[…] some of the greatest images in history…until I actually started looking at them. You got the VietCong dude getting shot, the Vietnamese girl running after getting napalmed, the buddhist monk burning alive, and then I […]

Friday, September 14th, 2007 at 12:27 pm"  
Tiant Stokes says:

link to the video of this execution: youtube.com/...

Saturday, September 29th, 2007 at 11:49 pm"  
wfp says:

thanx Tiant, included

Monday, October 1st, 2007 at 9:29 am"  
mark says:

war is truely hell

Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 2:02 am"  

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