Are you contending he shot someone in the head like the US-supported South Vietnamese officer who shot his prisoner at point blank range?
Eddie Adams' iconic Vietnam War photo: What happened next
Published29 January 2018
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Heavy street fighting had pitched Saigon into chaos when South Vietnamese military caught a suspected Viet Cong squad leader, Nguyen Van Lem, at the site of a mass grave of more than 30 civilians.
Adams began taking photos as Lem was frogmarched through the streets to Loan's jeep.
Loan stood beside Lem before pointing his pistol at the prisoner's head.
"I thought he was going to threaten or terrorise the guy," Adams recalled afterwards, "so I just naturally raised my camera and took the picture."
Lem was believed to have murdered the wife and six children of one of Loan's colleagues. The general fired his pistol.
"If you hesitate, if you didn't do your duty, the men won't follow you," the general said about the suddenness of his actions.
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Adams and Loan stayed in touch, even becoming friends after the general fled South Vietnam at the end of the war for the United States.
But upon Loan's arrival, US Immigration and Nationalization Services wanted to deport him, a move influenced by the photo. They approached Adams to testify against Loan, but Adams instead testified in his favour.
Adams even appeared on television to explain the circumstances of the photograph.
Congress eventually lifted the deportation and Loan was allowed to stay, opening a restaurant in a Washington, DC suburb serving hamburgers, pizza and Vietnamese dishes.
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