Photographer Eddie Adams dead at 71
You may not know him, but you know the picture that made him famous (Fox News story link).
What’s interesting is what Adams himself had to say about the photo and the shooter, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, who died in Virginia in 1998.
“The guy was a hero,” Adams said, recalling Loan’s explanation that the man he executed was a Viet Cong captain, responsible for murdering the family of Loan’s closest aide a few hours earlier.“Sometimes a picture can be misleading because it does not tell the whole story,” Adams said in an interview for a 1972 AP photo book. “I don’t say what he did was right, but he was fighting a war and he was up against some pretty bad people.”
“Adams died at his Manhattan home from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, said his assistant, Jessica Stuart. Diagnosed last May, he quickly lost his speech but remained alert and worked into his final days.”
