The Story behind the famous “Saigon Execution” Photo

[FunkyZero]

The Story behind the famous “Saigon Execution” Photo
https://cherrieswriter.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/the-story-behind-the-famous-saigon-execution-photo/

I thought this was a really informative read.. wanted to share. I found this website last night and there's quite a bit of good reading on this subject. If you are like me and don't know a lot about this war... it's informative.

[franksolich]

A lot of these famous war photographs are now known to have been staged; the socialist Spanish soldier right as he was being struck by a bullet, the crying Chinese infant sitting in a burning railway station, &c., &c., &c.

If a photograph taken under dangerous conditions looks "too neat," "too focused," the odds are reasonably good it was staged.  Not all of them, of course, but a great many of them.

[SVPete]

The old saying that, "A text out of context is a pretext," is true of photographs. This photog was just recording what he saw with his tools at hand, i.e. his job. It was the MSM in the US and the "anti-war" movement who created the false impression/narrative that the man who was shot was an innocent victim.

Some 15 years ago I worked with a young lady whose father had a South Vietnamese army officer. He sent his family out of the country, but stayed with his men and was himself imprisoned. He eventually came to the US, I think, but she grew up without her Dad.

[Texacon]

Wow!  Thanks for sharing this. Fascinating read.

KC

[Wineslob]

Good read. Here's one from a more recent time. Liberals up to their old tricks.


http://www.zombietime.com/sf_rally_september_24_2005/anatomy_of_a_photograph/