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| Eddie Adams snippet |
| Adams photographed some of the most celebrated people in the world: Ronald Reagan, Fidel Castro, and Pope John Paul II; Jerry Lewis, Clint
Eastwood and Bette Davis; Big Bird and Mickey Mouse. He is one of the most published photographers in the USA. |
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| Eddie Adams |
| Eddie Adams (June 12, 1933 – September 19, 2004) was an American photographer noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and as a
photojournalist having covered 13 wars. |
| It was while covering the Vietnam War for the Associated Press that he took his best-known photograph – the picture of police chief General
Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong prisoner, Nguyen Van Lem, on a Saigon street, on February 1, 1968, during the opening stages of the Tet
Offensive. |
| Adams won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and a World Press Photo award for the photograph (captioned 'Nguyen Ngoc
Loan|General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon'), but would later lament its notoriety. |
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