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calimary

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14. I worked with Nick Ut at the AP. He's a truly wonderful man.

Fri Jun 1, 2012, 02:55 PM

Jun 2012

Evidently when he brought that photo into the bureau, there was some debate about whether or not to run it - because of the nudity. The powers that be finally decide it should be used because of the over-arching story it told. It wasn't just a little naked girl running down the road. It was a little naked girl SCREAMING IN PAIN BECAUSE SHE'D JUST BEEN NAPALMED. The REAL point of the picture was how it showed, in one image, the horrors of war especially in the ways it impacts the innocent and other non-combatants. So they went with it. It won Nick Ut a Pulitzer Prize. Well-deserved.

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The Photo That Changed the World... [View all] cynatnite Jun 2012 OP

She came here to speak one time Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #1

The military now forbids photos like that, and they use drones to boot. Fewer witnesses that way. Zalatix Jun 2012 #2

Yes, they do not want their wars ended. jwirr Jun 2012 #8

And that all "reporters" be in bed with them. zeemike Jun 2012 #20

Which makes me laugh when people on here deride posters Zalatix Jun 2012 #24

kicking. n/t cynatnite Jun 2012 #3

Great piece, thanks for bringing it here. Robb Jun 2012 #4

It's a classic photo, but I don't see how it changed the world malthaussen Jun 2012 #5

I agree lunatica Jun 2012 #7

It changed the attitudes about the war and turned a lot of folks in activists... cynatnite Jun 2012 #10

Changed individual opinions, surely. malthaussen Jun 2012 #11

It changed the Vietnam war... cynatnite Jun 2012 #12

I guess it's a definitional thing, Cynatnite. malthaussen Jun 2012 #16

I remember it having an impact aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2012 #15

Just brought that up above malthaussen Jun 2012 #17

Photos of the My Lai massacre aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2012 #21

Yeah, I noticed that in the first Iraqi invasion malthaussen Jun 2012 #22

Tears like the first time I saw this photo when it came out. Indeed it ended the war and turned jwirr Jun 2012 #6

here's a recent photo Enrique Jun 2012 #9

link please TrogL Jun 2012 #18

Here: pinboy3niner Jun 2012 #25

Talked to some Viet Nam Vets this morning at the protest against new taxes here in Brownbackistan. patrice Jun 2012 #13

I worked with Nick Ut at the AP. He's a truly wonderful man. calimary Jun 2012 #14

Think they'd run it today? malthaussen Jun 2012 #23

Not sure. Depends on who's in charge. calimary Jun 2012 #27

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2012 #19

I wrote a poem about this when I was in school Rosa Luxemburg Jun 2012 #26