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    Saigon Execution is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South...
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  • handcuffed prisoner of war named Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968, in Saigon, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. Nguyễn Văn Lém was a Viet Cong (VC) member...
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  • his helmet. The notorious "Saigon Execution" photograph, showing the summary execution of a Viet Cong prisoner by Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan...
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    Furthermore, Winslow noted that Adams "wanted me to understand that 'Saigon Execution' was not his most important picture and that he did not want his obituary...
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    In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial...
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  • 21 October 1967 Bernie Boston Washington, D.C., United States 35 mm Saigon Execution 1 February 1968 Eddie Adams Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Unknown Massacre...
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    Eddie Adams and a film cameraman. That photograph, with the title Saigon Execution, won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and is widely...
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    fall of Saigon, known in Vietnam as Reunification Day (Vietnamese: Ngày giải phóng miền Nam, thống nhất đất nước), was the capture of Saigon, the capital...
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    chillingly captured". List of photographs considered the most important Saigon Execution, another Pulitzer-winning photo of a person at the moment they were...
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    The fighting in Saigon produced one of the Vietnam War's most famous images, photographer Eddie Adams' image of the summary execution of a VC prisoner...
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    Life". 1969: Edward T. Adams, Associated Press, for his photograph, "Saigon Execution". 1970: Steve Starr, Associated Press, for his news photo taken at...
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    Lý Tự Trọng (category 20th-century executions by France)
    1931, political prisoners in Saigon Central Prison chanted revolutionary slogans for hours in response to the execution of an ICP member, Lý Tự Trọng...
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  • Nguyễn Văn Trỗi (category Filmed executions)
    member of the NLF. His execution was filmed, and he remained defiant to the end. His last words before his execution in Saigon to correspondents were...
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    a quarter of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It lies on the west bank of the Saigon River, having Bình Tây Market as its central market. Chợ Lớn consists of...
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    Vietnamese commanders. A photo by Eddie Adams showing the summary execution of a VC in Saigon on February 1 became a symbol of the brutality of the war. In...
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    stockades along the Saigon river, the French and Spanish captured Saigon. French marine infantry stormed the enormous Citadel of Saigon, while Filipino troops...
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    Photography: Edward T. Adams of the Associated Press, for his photograph, "Saigon Execution". Feature Photography: Moneta Sleet Jr. of Ebony magazine, for his...
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    1963 South Vietnamese coup d'état (category Saigon in the Vietnam War)
    government discussed a proposed coup. In a telegram to the American Embassy in Saigon, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Roger Hilsman says that at some point...
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  • Năm Cam (category 21st-century executions by Vietnam)
    lucrative enterprise and cover up his murders of other criminal rivals in Saigon that challenged his reign. In fact, his connection and ties with the Vietnam's...
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    Cabot Lodge Jr. had CIA officer Lucien Conein arrest the fallen Ngô in Saigon. Cẩn was turned over to the military junta, which tried and executed him...
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  • Lê Thanh Vân (category 21st-century executions by Vietnam)
    executed for her crimes in 2005. Lê Thanh Vân was born on 5 December 1956, in Saigon, South Vietnam, the second in a family of eight children born to a drainage...
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    An extrajudicial killing (also known as an extrajudicial execution or an extralegal killing) is the deliberate killing of a person without the lawful...
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    Disembowelment (category Execution methods)
    coerce and intimidate rural peasants. Peer De Silva, former head of the Saigon department of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), wrote that from as...
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    League. After a period of uneasy co-operation with “Stalinists” on the Saigon paper La Lutte, with Thâu he triumphed over the Communists in the 1939 elections...
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    citing the absence of conclusive evidence. "Napalm Sticks to Kids" Saigon Execution Gillespie 2018, p. 1. Recker 2022. Singh 2022. Also sometimes referred...
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    Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm (category Saigon in the Vietnam War)
    Vietnam (ARVN) launched a bloody overnight siege on Gia Long Palace in Saigon. When rebel forces entered the palace, Diệm and his adviser and younger...
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    broken and fighting continued until the 1975 spring offensive and fall of Saigon to the PAVN, marking the war's end. North and South Vietnam were reunified...
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    1973. AUt took Phúc and the other injured children to Barsky Hospital in Saigon, where it was determined that her burns were so severe that she probably...
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  • Vietnam. In 1955, Bình Xuyên was defeated in the Battle of Saigon and was disbanded. Saigon in the 1960s saw the rise of four powerful Vietnamese gangs...
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    Palace over the execution of the leaders of the Yên Bái mutiny on 22 May 1930, Thâu and eighteen of his compatriots were deported back to Saigon. Tạ Thu Thâu's...
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