Posted on 02/01/2023 7:27:52 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
Around noon of February 1, 1968, in the opening days of the communist Tet Offensive, South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan summarily executed a Viet Cong prisoner on the streets of Saigon — and photographer Eddie Adams captured perhaps the war’s most unforgettable image.
An American cameraman also captured it in on celluloid. Caution: This clip shows … well, a man being shot in the head at point-blank range.
Though the image brought Adams the Pulitzer Prize, he would express discomfort with it later in life, and eulogized General Loan in Time magazine when he died in the U.S. in 1998....
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Spies can be summarily executed....................
This was filmed and was broadcast on all the network news, sure you can find it on Youtube. The general just walked up, put the muzzle of a pistol close to the prisoner’s head and pulled the trigger.
The dead guy had just murdered some South Viet Namese civilians. He got exactly what he deserved.
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The networks knew what they were doing.
Kind of like the Rodney King tape, they only showed the parts that fit the narrative.
The guy was part of a assassination team sent in to kill the general and his family.
The scrote has just lead a team that murdered the general’s friend and his family. The photographer regretted the blowback the general got. The general retired in Los Angeles I think… ran a restaurant as I recall.
Agreed, not sympathetic with the VC. I remember seeing the film on the nightly news, probably NBC since we only had one TV station in our town.
I think it was a family either known to or close to General Loan.
According to Geneva Convention, spies can be summarily executed, without trial. Wearing civilian clothing in enemy territory is a death sentence....................
The weapon was a S&W model 49 “bodyguard” in .38 special. I owned one just like it. I regret selling it to this day.
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Part of the big lie that the South Vietnamese were the bad guys along with our troops.
He could have brought out the LeRoy Nieman paintings...
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Thanks for the info
I think it was Northern Virginia and a pizza place.
“And a varmint will never quit — ever. They’re like the Viet Cong — Varmint Cong. So you have to fall back on superior intelligence and superior firepower. And that’s all she wrote.”
I’m still reading the Hermann Goering Workout book
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