VIETNAM GENERAL NGUYEN NGOC LOAN DIES AGED 67 IN THE USA

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(15 Jul 1998) Natural Sound • Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the South Vietnamese general whose summary execution of a bound prisoner was depicted in a photograph that stunned the world three decades ago, has died at the age of 67. • Loan (pronounced l'wahn) died on Tuesday at his home in Burke, a suburb of Washington, D-C, after a battle with cancer. • The photo of Loan aiming a pistol point-blank at the grimacing prisoner's head moments before the trigger was pulled became a haunting image of the Vietnam War. • The photograph was taken by Eddie Adams on February 1st 1968, and won a Pulitzer prize for The Associated Press. • At the time, Loan was head of South Vietnam's national police. • The North Vietnamese had begun the Tet Offensive, their big military push southward, the previous month. • Firefights had broken out all over Saigon and Loan's police were trying to rid the South Vietnamese capital of Viet Cong guerrillas. • Shortly after Adams and other newsmen arrived, Loan led the prisoner, hands bound, onto a street corner, drew his handgun and shot him in the head. • The general told the newsmen that the prisoner was a known Viet Cong captain. • General Loan fled South Vietnam in 1975, the year Communists overran the country, and moved to northern Virginia. • He opened a restaurant named Les Trois Continents in Dale City, Virginia, in the late '70s. • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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