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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. The photograph was published extensively by American news media the next day, [2] and would later win Adams the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
20 mar 2013 · After being captured with the bodies during the Tet Offensive, Nguyen Van Lem was taken to Major General Ngoc Loan. In a street in Saigon, Loan executed Lem with his .38 caliber Smith & Wesson. The photographer, Eddie Adams, had this to say of capturing the photo:
9 maj 2020 · On Friday afternoon, all 17 justices of the Supreme Court voted in favor of the lower courts’ decisions to uphold the death sentence for Hai for the double homicide. The case. Hai’s 57-year-old mother Nguyen Thi Loan, who believes her son was wrongfully convicted, has been making pleas to authorities for the review of his case for the past ...
16 lip 1998 · Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the South Vietnamese general whose summary execution of a bound prisoner was depicted in a photograph that stunned the world three decades ago, has died.
4 maj 2017 · Eddie Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1968 "Saigon Execution" photo that shows Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Viet Cong fighter Nguyễn Văn Lém. Do you know what's actually happening in this photograph?
11 kwi 2024 · Truong My Lan was convicted of taking out $44bn (£35bn) in loans from the Saigon Commercial Bank. The verdict requires her to return $27bn, a sum prosecutors said may never be recovered. Some...
The soldiers stopped. The police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, walked up and lifted his pistol. Adams figured the chief planned a gunpoint interrogation. Instead, Loan fired, and Adams’ photo froze prisoner Bay Lop’s grimace as he was shot. Suu’s footage also captured the moment, in motion.
