I didn’t realize this until I got a chance to look at today’s WP, but:
50 years ago today, Eddie Adams took that photo.
He believed he had taken far more worthy pictures, and that the execution photo was viewed out of context by most people: The slain Viet Cong prisoner was captured after he reportedly killed a South Vietnamese officer, his wife and six children.
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