Eddie Adams

Eddie Adams, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a Vietnamese general executing a Viet Cong prisoner in the streets of Saigon became an enduring symbol of the brutality of the Vietnam War, died Sunday in his Manhattan home. He was 71. Adams died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig's disease, his assistant, Jessica Stuart, told Associated Press.

Eddie Adams made me weep long before I knew his name. With his camera he caught the faces of the Vietnam War: soldiers hardened too young, barefoot children with dead eyes, burned villages with smoke still hanging in the air, mothers collapsed around their dead. His photos seared the front pages of newspapers around the world, making the war painfully real.

The ceremony was always emotional on his farm in upstate New York, where the names of fallen Vietnam War photographers were carved into a stone monument. Eddie Adams had known all of them, and every October he would raise a champagne glass with more than 100 colleagues and students to remember the sacrifices and pictures that once brought the war home to Americans. Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for taking one of the most notorious photographs of the war, capturing the horrific moment when a South Vietnamese lieutenant colonel executed a Viet Cong prisoner on the streets of Saigon in 1968.

Eddie Adams: An article in the Aug. 26 Calendar section about a documentary on photographer Eddie Adams referred to a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Nick Ut of a young Vietnamese girl running naked and screaming after being burned by napalm. The story said the incident was the result of a U.S. bombing. In fact, it was South Vietnamese planes that dropped the napalm, under orders from a U.S. commander.

Eddie Adams: An article in the Aug. 26 Calendar section about a documentary on photographer Eddie Adams referred to a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Nick Ut of a young Vietnamese girl running naked and screaming after being burned by napalm. The story said the incident was the result of a U.S. bombing. In fact, it was South Vietnamese planes that dropped the napalm, under orders from a U.S. commander.

Eddie Adams, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist known for his emblematic images of the Vietnam War, was remembered Thursday for his wry smile and bright eyes that revealed an endless passion for telling the stories of humanity. Adams, best known for his Associated Press photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street, died last month at 71 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

Eddie Adams made me weep long before I knew his name. With his camera he caught the faces of the Vietnam War: soldiers hardened too young, barefoot children with dead eyes, burned villages with smoke still hanging in the air, mothers collapsed around their dead. His photos seared the front pages of newspapers around the world, making the war painfully real.

The J. Paul Getty Museum, best known for its contested antiquities, Impressionist irises and gorgeous grounds, has been diversifying in gruesome black and white. Since 2003, the museum has bought up several photographic prints that count among the 20th century's most iconic journalistic images of death by violence: Malcolm Browne's picture of the 1963 self-immolation of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk; a print from the Zapruder film of the 1963 shooting of John F.

His kids call it "the wall of death. " Generations of startling war images hang in the living room of photojournalist David Hume Kennerly: the flag-raising at Iwo Jima, the execution of a Vietcong fighter on the streets of Saigon, and a screaming Vietnamese girl running naked toward the camera and away from a napalm bombing. "Imagine being a kid growing up in this house," says Kennerly, whose own pictures from Vietnam won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1972. The photographs from his fellow wartime photographers are displayed throughout his Santa Monica home.

The ceremony was always emotional on his farm in upstate New York, where the names of fallen Vietnam War photographers were carved into a stone monument. Eddie Adams had known all of them, and every October he would raise a champagne glass with more than 100 colleagues and students to remember the sacrifices and pictures that once brought the war home to Americans. Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for taking one of the most notorious photographs of the war, capturing the horrific moment when a South Vietnamese lieutenant colonel executed a Viet Cong prisoner on the streets of Saigon in 1968.

Eddie Adams, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist known for his emblematic images of the Vietnam War, was remembered Thursday for his wry smile and bright eyes that revealed an endless passion for telling the stories of humanity. Adams, best known for his Associated Press photo of a communist guerrilla being executed in a Saigon street, died last month at 71 from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease.

Eddie Adams, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a Vietnamese general executing a Viet Cong prisoner in the streets of Saigon became an enduring symbol of the brutality of the Vietnam War, died Sunday in his Manhattan home. He was 71. Adams died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as Lou Gehrig's disease, his assistant, Jessica Stuart, told Associated Press.

Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the South Vietnamese general whose summary execution of a bound prisoner was depicted in a photograph that stunned the world three decades ago, has died. He was 67. Loan died Tuesday night at his home in Burke, a suburb of Washington, after a battle with cancer, said his daughter, Nguyen Anh. The photo of Loan firing a pistol point-blank at the grimacing prisoner's head on Feb. 1, 1968, became a haunting image of the Vietnam War.

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