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Saigon Execution
1968 photograph by Eddie Adams / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saigon Execution[lower-alpha 1] is a 1968 photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn Ngọc Loan shooting Viet Cong captain Nguyễn Văn Lém[lower-alpha 2][lower-alpha 3] near the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon. The photograph was published extensively by American news media the following day,[2] and would go on to win Adams the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography.
![Nguyễn Ngọc Loan aims a pistol at Nguyễn Văn Lém. Lém's face is visibly distorted from a bullet that is still travelling through his head.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Execution_of_Nguyen_Van_Lem.jpg/640px-Execution_of_Nguyen_Van_Lem.jpg)