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Nguyen Ngoc Loam, the national police chief of South Vietnam, executed a Vietcong fighter, Nguyen Van Lem, in Saigon on Feb. 1, 1968
Nguyen Ngoc Loam, the national police chief of South Vietnam, executed a Vietcong fighter, Nguyen Van Lem, in Saigon on Feb. 1, 1968

Nguyen Ngoc Loam, the national police chief of South Vietnam, executed a Vietcong fighter, Nguyen Van Lem, in Saigon on Feb. 1, 1968

Eddie Adams (American, 1933–2004)
1968
Medium/TechniquePhotograph, gelatin silver print, with airbrushing
DimensionsImage: 23.1 × 33.9 cm (9 1/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 26 × 34.4 cm (10 1/4 × 13 9/16 in.)
Credit LineThe Howard Greenberg Collection—Museum purchase with funds donated by the Phillip Leonian and Edith Rosenbaum Leonian Charitable Trust
Accession number2018.3236
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPhotographs
Provenance2018, sold by Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 19, 2018)
CopyrightAP Photo / Eddie Adams