#AtoZ 1968 - "E" is for Execution (Viet Cong)

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“You’re going to get a concept that maybe this really is one world and why the hell can’t we learn to live together like decent people.” ~ Astronaut Frank Borman, on seeing the entire earth from outer space as he and the crew of the Apollo 8 returned from orbiting the moon. Execution If there was ever a photo that brought the brutality of war onto the front page of a newspaper, this was it.

In this photo, Brigadier General Nguyễn Ngoc Loan, the police chief of South Vietnam, walks up to a prisoner, Nguyễn Văn Lém, and fires a bullet into his head. In the middle of the street.

Nguyễn Văn Lém was a member of the Viet Cong and was responsible for killing the wife and six children of a South Vietnamese military officer. He admitted that he was proud to carry out his unit leader's order to kill. Adams's photograph was broadcast worldwide, and helped to galvanize the anti-war movement. Eddie Adams won a 1969 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph.BONUS MUSIC!Here's the #78 song on Billboard's Year-End Top 100 Singles of 1968"Revolution" by The Beatleshttps://youtu.be/BGLGzRXY5Bw