This Day in History: 1968-02-01

Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém, a photo  by American photographer Eddie Adams, is taken on this day in 1968. The Pulitzer-prize winning photo galvanized the antiwar movement in the US by depicting the brutality of war.   Adams later testified in support of Gen. Nguyen Loan (left, with pistol) during deportation hearings in the US. “Two people died in that photograph,” Adams wrote in later years.   “The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.”