On 1 February 1968, after the outbreak of the Tet offensive, Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams captured the moment South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, executed Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem, also known as Bay Lop, on a street in Saigon

On 1 February 1968, after the outbreak of the Tet offensive, Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams captured the moment South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan, chief of the national police, executed Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem, also known as Bay Lop, on a street in Saigon. It became one of the most famous photos of the Vietnam War, won Adams the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and stirred up the anti-war movement in the United States.
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But few people know the story behind the image. According to South Vietnamese sources, Lem was a member of a Viet Cong death squad who had been targeting and killing South Vietnamese police officers and their families. Lem was allegedly captured at the site of a mass grave and had executed South Vietnamese Lt. Col. Nguyen Tuan, his wife, five of their six children, and the officer's 80-year-old mother less than 36 hours prior to his capture.
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The lone survivor of Tuan's family, Huan Nguyen, was 9 years old at the time. He was shot three times during the attack that killed his family and stayed with his mother for two hours as she bled out and died. In 2019, he became the highest-ranking Vietnamese-American officer in the U.S. military when he was promoted to the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy (swipe left).

Anticipating the impact of Adams' photograph, assistant managing editor of the NYT agreed to run the picture large, but offset with a picture of a child killed by the Vietcong. However, Adams' photograph became famous, and the other image was soon forgotten. Adams later regretted the impact of the photo and wrote: "Two people died in that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera."
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After the fall of Saigon in 1975, Loan fled South Vietnam to the United States. In 1978, the Immigration and Nationalization Services (INS) wanted to deport him partially because of the photo taken by Adams. They approached Adams to testify against Loan, but Adams instead testified in his favor, and Loan was allowed to stay. (colorized by @lorenzofolli_history_in_color)

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