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2 unusual facts about Nguyễn Ngọc Loan


Nguyễn Ngọc Loan

The event was also partially captured by NBC News film cameras, but Adams' photograph remains the defining image.

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On June 16, 1966, he was pulled over by agents working under General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan.


Threatening the President of the United States

In July 2003, the Los Angeles Times published a Sunday editorial cartoon by conservative Michael Ramirez that depicted a man pointing a gun at President Bush’s head; it was a takeoff on the 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Eddie Adams that showed South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner at point-blank range.


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