General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon

Photograph by Edward T. Adams

General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon

Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes Viet Cong Captain Nguyen Van Lem: February 1, 1968. This Associated Press photograph, "General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon," won a 1969 Pulitzer prize for its photographer Eddie Adams. Film also exists of this event, but owing to the more graphic nature of the film, the photograph is more widely known.

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General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon
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Id hit it

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because people *are* people, and hate is what we do best.

msp:
Where is the bullet? The trigger of the gun is pressed and no bullet is visible. So can you image where the bullet is?

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