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The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phúc Story, the Photograph and the Vietnam War, by Denise Chong, is a 1999 biographical and historical book tracing the life story of Phúc. Chong's historical coverage emphasizes the life, especially the school and family life, of Phúc from before the attack, through convalescence, and into the present time.
“The Stringer” is a documentary mystery about a deadly serious subject: the true authorship of the famous Vietnam War photograph, taken on June 8, 1972, in the town of Trảng Bàng, that ...
Fifty years after "Napalm Girl," photographer Nick Ut and subject Kim Phuc discuss their lifelong bond and the controversies around the iconic photo.
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Unknown [s 1] [s 2] [s 3] [s 4] [s 6] [s 5] [s 7] Massacre of Villagers in My Lai: 16 March 1968 Ronald L. Haeberle: Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam [s 1] My Lai: 16 March 1968 Ronald L. Haeberle Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam 35 mm A group of civilian women and children before being killed by the U.S. Army. [s 2]
The front-facing picture that would later become known as "Napalm Girl" was chosen by AP picture editor Horst Faas; according to Robinson, Faas said to attribute the front-facing picture to Ut, specifically saying, "make it Nick Ut." [2] According to Robinson, the photograph's wrongful attribution was an open secret and cover-up at AP.
Kim Phuc received her final burn treatment, 50 years after she was shown running in agony as napalm burned her skin in South Vietnam.
Donald Goldstein, a retired Air Force colonel and a co-author of a prominent Vietnam War photojournalism book, The Vietnam War: The Stories and The Photographs, says of Burst of Joy, "After years of fighting a war we couldn't win, a war that tore us apart, it was finally over, and the country could start healing." [5]
Carl Robinson, a former Associated Press photo editor in Saigon during the Vietnam War, alleges that Faas had told him to change credit for the famous "Napalm Girl" image from having been taken by a photo stringer (freelance photgrapher) to AP photographer Nick Ut, who had also been at the scene and taken similar photographs.