Even in a pre-internet era, the impact was almost immediate. Eddie Adams’ Feb. 1, 1968 photograph of Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a North Vietnamese prisoner hit the Associated Press wires, and would soon appear in newspapers in the United States and around the world. The graphic image stunned the public and politicians alike, quickly adding to the mounting opposition to the war in Vietnam. Some historians say it may have changed the course of the war itself. Adams, who would win the Pulitzer Prize for the image, had mixed feelings about the work. For a seasoned AP war […]
