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  • Photographer who took famous Saigon photo dies

    05/15/2009 8:09:18 AM PDT · by Borges · 28 replies · 1,273+ views
    Yahoo - AP ^ | 05/15/09 | RICHARD PYLE and JEREMIAH MARQUEZ
    HONG KONG – Hugh Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War and recorded the most famous image of the fall of Saigon in 1975 — a group of people scaling a ladder to a CIA helicopter on a rooftop — died Friday morning in Hong Kong, his wife said. He was 67 years old. Van Es died in Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, where he had lived for more than 35 years. He suffered a brain hemorrhage last week and never regained consciousness, his wife Annie said. Hospital officials declined to comment. Slender, tough-talking and always...
  • Vietnam photographer Van Es dies

    05/15/2009 2:48:29 AM PDT · by JoeProBono · 11 replies · 612+ views
    bbc ^ | 15 May 2009
    Dutch photographer Hugh Van Es, who captured some of the most enduring images of the Vietnam War, has died in hospital in Hong Kong at the age of 67. Mr Van Es' most famous picture showed US citizens queuing on a rooftop to board a US helicopter during the evacuation of Saigon in 1975. The image came to be seen as a symbol of the failure of US policy in the war.