Video: '1968: The Execution of a Vietcong'

(Thursday, February 1, 1968, at around noon Saigon Standard Time; during the Tet Offensive, part of the Vietnam War, the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Saigon’s police chief, Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, executed Nguyen Van Lem, a Viet Cong officer, with a pistol shot to the head at point-blank range today in a scene captured by news photographers.

Photographer Eddie Adams captured the moment in an iconic photo. In addition, a crew for the American NBC television network filmed the event and the footage was broadcast on the NBC’s Huntley-Brinkley report the next night.

The photograph and footage were distributed worldwide, galvanizing the anti-war movement

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