An Unlikely Weapon
Year | 2008 |
Director(s) | Susan Morgan Cooper |
Runtime | 83 min |
Producer(s) | Cindy Lou Adkins, Susan Morgan Cooper |
Writer(s) | Isaac Hagy, Susan Morgan Cooper |
In 1968, in 1/500th of a second Eddie Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nygoc Loan, shooting a Vietcong guerilla point blank. Some say that photograph ended the Vietnam War. The photo brought Eddie Adams fame and a Pulitzer, but Eddie was haunted by the man he had vilified. He would say, “Two lives were destroyed that day, the victim’s and the general.” Others would say three lives were destroyed.