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Originally Posted by _Richard_
i heard the exact opposite.. that the dude being executed was a leader of some local gang involved with all sorts of things that lead to that surprisingly honourable executor..
The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?[5]
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yup, totally accurate, which makes his comment even more ludicrous.
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For all the image?s political impact, though, the situation wasn?t as black-and-white as it?s rendered. What Adams? photograph doesn?t reveal is that the man being shot was the captain of a Vietcong "revenge squad" that had executed dozens of unarmed civilians earlier the same day. Regardless, it instantly became an icon of the war?s savagery and made the official pulling the trigger ? General Nguyen Ngoc Loan ? its iconic villain.
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