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Saigon Execution [a] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém [ b ] [ c ] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon .
Loan was a staunch South Vietnamese nationalist, refusing to give Americans special treatment in his jurisdiction. For example, in December 1966 he rejected the arrest of Saigon mayor Van Van Cua by American military police and insisted that only South Vietnamese authorities could arrest and detain South Vietnamese citizens. He also insisted ...
Adams would later lament the effect of the photo. [16] On Loan and his photograph, Adams wrote in Time in 1998: Two people died in that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world.
1 The people shown in Adams' Pulitzer Prize-winning photo 4 comments Toggle The people shown in Adams' Pulitzer Prize-winning photo subsection 1.1 Executed captive Nguyen Van Lem
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Ohio death row inmate Robert Van Hook is set to be executed on Wednesday for murdering a gay man he picked up at an Ohio bar in 1985.
The iconic photo of the execution of Nguyen Van Lem is a poor illustration of an extrajudicial killing. He was summarily executed as a spy, a point attested to in the article on Summary Execution. Is the article asserting that Summary Execution is a subset of Extrajudicial Killing?
Merrick helped put together a memorial display to former residents who didn’t make it. One man’s face sticks out among the R.I.P. photos and newspaper obituaries. In his photo, taken at the facility, he is beaming. He is holding up a Grateful Life certificate, his “Life on Life’s Terms Award.”