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I remember seeing this on the News just after it happened , one of those things you don’t forget easily .

This shocking image shows South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing Vietcong member Nguyen Van Lem in the street.
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The man being executed was the captain of a V.C. revenge squad and was captured after murdering family members of the police. I do not think what Loan did was right, vigilantism never is, but understanding why he did that is important IMHO.

I met Loan in 1975 after Saigon fell at the refugee camp at Camp Pendleton California.
 
The same picture twice on the same thread? That’s more than just iconic. (See #16.)

… But thank you for the background information. I didn’t even know Loan’s name until now.

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Nguyễn Ngọc Loan - Wikipedia

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Rob2:
I remember seeing this on the News just after it happened , one of those things you don’t forget easily .

This shocking image shows South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing Vietcong member Nguyen Van Lem in the street.
Click to expand...
The man being executed was the captain of a V.C. revenge squad and was captured after murdering family members of the police. I do not think what Loan did was right, vigilantism never is, but understanding why he did that is important IMHO.

I met Loan in 1975 after Saigon fell at the refugee camp at Camp Pendleton California.
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I can remember a film of the incident being broacast on the evening news which wasn’t a suitable time to show it .
 
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Front row left to right: Harry A. Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, alias the Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy; Standing: Will Carver, alias News Carver, & Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry; Fort Worth, Texas, 1900.
 
Pablo Picasso, son Claude and Jean Cocteau at a bullfight, Vallauris, France 1955

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A 1935 cup final being played at Empire Stadium , London .

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The splash of a milk drop, from the laboratory of Harold “Doc” Edgerton.

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In the late 1970s, I had the pleasure of attending a series of talks he gave at MIT about the development of technology for high-speed flash photography, and its application to photographing bullets, hummingbirds, and much more.
 
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You’ve reminded me of Lennart Nilsson
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I was going to post something by this photographer since I played UItimate Frisbee with his grandson.
 
I love the early helicopter. I also like how the camera freezes its’ blades and makes it look like it is floating.
 
Boulevard du Temple, Paris , taken by Louis Daguerrein late 1838, was the first-ever photograph of a person. It is an image of a busy street, but because exposure time was over ten minutes, the city traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is a man in the bottom left corner, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show up in the picture…

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The first color photograph taken in 1861. It is a tartan ribbon.
 
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The elderly lady on the left in this photograph is thought to be Constanze Mozart, the composer’s widow. The photograph, taken in 1840 at Altötting in Bavaria, Germany, was discovered in 2006. More recently, however, doubt has been cast on the identification.

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Unique photo of Mozart's widow revealed

The newly discovered black and white image is the only photograph ever taken of Constanze Mozart, the widow of the Austrian composer and genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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Watson and Crick discovery of molecular model of DNA. 1953.
 
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