The man was executed on the street.
May just as well have been this way
May just as well have been this way
I think that Viet Cong had it coming to him.
Pretending to be a civilian, and then attacking and killing people while you and your gang of commie thugs are trying to overthrow the Nation. Sure, he earned his bullet.
Not even close.
A different world. Not a place you would ever want to be.
I was in country for Tet of 68 and two more.
Nguyen Ngoc Loan,Tet offensive of 68
Mr. Loan insisted that his action was justified because the prisoner had been the captain of a terrorist squad that had killed the family of one of his deputy commanders.
IIRC the picture’s site takes place Da Nang during the Tet Offensive; the shootee is NVN and the shooter has found out that the NVN terrorists (not necessarily the dead shootee) have executed his wife and family plus about 5,000 loyal south vietnamese.
Did you know the guy with the gun in that photo was the police chief in Saigon?
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At least the Saigon cop had good reason. the person he is shooting was a VC who had just murdered a family near there. The cop was godfather to that family.
MaxMax: You needed to put the Gen. Loan/VC assassin photo into a proper perspective.
Loan, then the head of the So. Vietnamese police, found out that his plain-clothed VC assassin had just wiped out the family of a So. Vietnamese officer (a cold-blooded killing of civilians, a speciality of select VC assassination squads).
Thus Loan had the legal right to summarily execute this murderer was not wearing a uniform in a time of war.
The photographer, Eddie Adams, regretted how his photo was taken out of context by so much of the mainstream media.
NY Cops killing a man on the street with an illegal chokehold is something else, perhaps worse if the person was harmless and down, and it was not a wartime act.
Context is everything.
The man grimacing had been caught in the act of murdering the family of the man with the pistol a few minutes before the photo.