
This picture was taken in 1968, it won a Pulitzer in 1969, and it was taken by Eddie Adams.
A Vietcong officer killed by the general Nguyen Ngoc Loan. This picture is extremely special because of many things, one of them is that it was taken just when the bullet entered the head of the man, so, it is the image of a thing you cannot reverse, it is the moment between life and death where you cannot interfere. He had life and he was losing it without turning back, the photo may kill more than a gun. The general who killed this man had to suffer for this photo for many years until he died in 1998 at the age of 67. The man who took this photo apologized to the general’s family because of the image he made. Although he said he was a hero, he shot a man who had killed 6 men that were his relatives and American soldiers.
This picture was taken to be the flag, the symbol of anti-war movements.
“When death becomes life”.