Can someone help me please!?!?

[dave-thecrow]

hey
my name is dave! i really need some help in finding out the name and photographer of a photo......... its a fairly famous photo of a vietnamese guy (i think) being shot. the photo is taken jus as the bullet goes into his head! any help would be so appreciated
thanks

 

[SWFLA1]

The photo was taken by Eddie Adams.. it is a photo of the execution of a Viet Cong prisoner.

It was taken in 1968, in Saigon

hope this helps

 

[Hertz van Rental]

To be pedantic it was Eddie Adams working for Associated Press and it was Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, police chief of Saigon, executing a Vietcong prisoner during the 1968 Tet offensive - but this is probably way too much info.

 

[Jeff Canes]

I recall seeing a color version of this. That was on 16mm movie film. It was shown only as a still in the US.

 

[Hertz van Rental]

Don't know about the film or the colour. Thought it was only BW. But am pretty sure it was not taken from a movie. The quote I have before me made by the photographer indicates he used a still camera. 'As his hand came up so did my camera...' - Pictures on a Page by Harold Evans.

 

[mistakendavis]

the photo is from a still camera by Eddie Adams but there is footage of this, it was taken by Vo Suu a cameraman for NBC. NBC would end up showing it nation wide so that may be what you are talking about.

 

[Hertz van Rental]

Mistakendavis - I stand in the shadow of an information god

 

[dave-thecrow]

hey guys thanks alot thats exactly the one!!!!!!!!! and the extra info might also turn out to be of some use!!!!!!! thanks alot again!!!! i can now sleep knowing what it is - its been bugging me for a while now!

thanks alot

dave