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This Happened—February 1: The Brutality Of The Vietnam War

Updated Feb. 1, 2024 at 2:45 p.m. On this day in 1968, Nguyễn Văn Lém, a member of the Viet Cong, was summarily executed for alleged war crimes in Saigon during the Vietnam War. Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer captured the execution in one of the most iconic images in war reporting history. Who […]

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