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Reporting Vietnam: Napalm Girl
Reporting Vietnam: Napalm GirlPosted on June 5, 2015 by Newseum
In 1950, the Associated Press became the first international news organization to establish a Saigon bureau, and the news service went on to win six Pulitzer Prizes for its reporting of the Vietnam War. One went to photographer Nick Ut for his haunting image, taken June 8, 1972, of a screaming South Vietnamese girl running down a road, her clothes and flesh burned off by napalm. The powerful photo has been credited with helping to end the war, although most U.S. troops were already long gone from Vietnam when it was taken. Ut took the girl, 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, to the hospital. She survived, and the photographer, who lost his older brother to the war, never lost touch with her.
In 1950, the Associated Press became the first international news organization to establish a Saigon bureau, and the news service went on to win six Pulitzer Prizes for its reporting of the Vietnam War. One went to photographer Nick Ut for his haunting image, taken June 8, 1972, of a screaming South Vietnamese girl running down a road, her clothes and flesh burned off by napalm. The powerful photo has been credited with helping to end the war, although most U.S. troops were already long gone from Vietnam when it was taken. Ut took the girl, 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, to the hospital. She survived, and the photographer, who lost his older brother to the war, never lost touch with her.
