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In reply to the discussion: GRAPHIC IMAGE: What the reports on Allen TX aren't showing us. TRIGGER WARNING [View all]NullTuples
(6,017 posts)This is just a tiny sampling of the images Americans began to see primarily after early 1968, when journalists stopped showing only sanitized, approved photos that portrayed a very "clean" and morally simple war. That change in reporting greatly assisted in shifting public opinion toward America's choices regarding the war and the politicians pushing those choices.
The photos that helped shift American sentiment about the Vietnam War:
Eddie Adams's photo of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner standing in the street.
John Filo's photo of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling near one of the students shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State.
Huynh Cong Ut's Time magazine cover of a crowd of people fleeing burning napalm, including a naked, crying young girl.
David Douglas Duncan's images of eight days spent with a group of Marines at Khe Sanh.
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Don McCullin's photos (there are so many)
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Philip Jones Griffiths' photo's (again, so many)
Art Greenspon's picture of medics taking away wounded while in the foreground another wounded young man lies on the ground grimacing.
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