----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On Apr 24, 10:13am, b.a.rupert wrote: > Subject: Re: Vietnam Footage > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > The photojournalist that you are looking for is Eddie Adams. I don't know if > he did the filming - but I do know he was the photojournalist who captured the > images. As an aside - there was some questions years later about if the photo > had been faked - they tracked down the general who had no quams about admitting > that he had shot the prisoner. If I remember correctly - the man who was > killed had just killed a friend's family. This is the myth. There has been no actual source for the story. The "general" (the Saigon chief of police) summarily shot the man. The "just killed his family" cover story has been one of America's favorite Vietnam war legends (not unlike the story that claimed a young Canadian soldier was found crucified with German bayonets in the French trenches). Tim. > in most photojournalist books and/or books on war photography. > >-- End of excerpt from b.a.rupert -- Tim Blackmore "You may be big, York University but I'm small." Toronto, Canada -Daffy Duck