Rank #53
Vietnam Execution / Murder of Nguyễn Văn Lém
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Eddie Adams, 1968. (#10) The execution photograph defined US public opinion on Vietnam.
From Wikipedia
Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South Vietnamese police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting a Viet Cong courier near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon. The photograph was published extensively by American news media the next day, and would later win Adams the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1968 World Press Photo of the Year.