During the #TetOffensive, a VC captain, #NguyễnVănLém (an arms trafficker code-named #BảyLốp), was executed by South Vietnam's police chief #NguyễnNgọcLoan in Saigon on #ThisDayInHistory in 1968. It was recorded in a famed #EddieAdams photo that won a #PulitzerPrize in 1969.
February 1, 2026 at 2:30 PM
During the #TetOffensive, a VC captain, #NguyễnVănLém (an arms trafficker code-named #BảyLốp), was executed by South Vietnam's police chief #NguyễnNgọcLoan in Saigon on #ThisDayInHistory in 1968. It was recorded in a famed #EddieAdams photo that won a #PulitzerPrize in 1969.
#OTD #February1, 1968. War pictures can change how we view such violence. #EddieAdams took such a picture on this date. A public murder/execution during the #VietnamWar #NguyễnNgọcLoan #NguyễnVănLém 1969 #PulitzerPrize woodstockwhisperer.info/2016/02/01/p...
Photographer Eddie Adams | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley
Photographer Eddie Adams Eddie Adams had been photographing war zones since he joined the Marines in 1951 during the Korean War as a combat photographer.
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February 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
#OTD #February1, 1968. War pictures can change how we view such violence. #EddieAdams took such a picture on this date. A public murder/execution during the #VietnamWar #NguyễnNgọcLoan #NguyễnVănLém 1969 #PulitzerPrize woodstockwhisperer.info/2016/02/01/p...