Saigon Execution is a photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams on February 1, 1968, during the Tet Offensive, showing South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shooting a Viet Cong operative near the An Quang Pagoda in Saigon. Published widely by American news media the following day, alongside NBC film footage of the same event seen by an estimated twenty million viewers on The Huntley-Brinkley Report, it became one of the defining images of the Vietnam War. The photograph won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1968 World Press Photo of the Year, though historians continue to debate its actual effect on American public opinion of the war.
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Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War
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South Vietnamese police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting a Viet Cong courier near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon
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Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
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Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
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Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.
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