Originally Posted by Helix

Picture #2 is the famous Eddie Adams photo shot in Saigon 1968 of a South Vietnamese executing a Vietcong officer in civilian clothes (I?d like to note something important about this image: we misread it all the time. The South Vietnamese officer?s face is largely turned away from the camera, and because the Vietcong officer is in civilian clothes we often image that what we are witnessing is an American soldier?s execution of a civilian. I don?t know if this has been studied at all, but I?m curious to find out if the American public in 1968 accurately understood what they were witnessing after the initial news stories about this execution were aired.) Adams? image appeared in February, 1968 along with a short film shot with a movie camera right next to Adams. Both the image and a segment of the film were shown on NBC nightly news.