Famous Photographs
of
(1958-1964=Advisors)
(End of
Major
Combat)
Images that Influenced Peoples’ Opinions
About the War
Too Much for Anybody to Handle…
-Hearing from his Brother-in-law who served in
Vietnam
-”Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?!”
Conscription (Draft) Lists
Hippie???
http://www.vietnampix.com/intro2.htm
It’s Uncle Sy!!!
“No event in American
history is more
misunderstood than the
Vietnam War. It was
misreported then, and it is
misremembered now.”
--President Richard M.
Nixon, 1985
President George H.W. Bush
"When people think of historic events,
they don't usually remember the words
… they remember the images. One
photo may not tell us the entire truth,
but it gives us a piece of the truth … a
glimpse of history, and that's important
work."
Where were you?
World War II victory in Europe at last!
American and Soviet soldier embrace in Germany.
Where were you?
www.photos-september11.com
Sudan Famine: 1994
• This photo is the "Pulitzer Prize" winning
photo depicting a famine stricken child
crawling towards a United Nations food
camp, located a kilometer (0.6 miles) away.
• The vulture is waiting for the child to die so it
can eat it. This picture shocked the whole
world. No one knows what happened to the
child, not even the photographer Kevin Carter
who left the place as soon as the photograph
was taken.
• Three months later he committed suicide due
to depression.
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“Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/lange/aa_lange_power_2_e.html
The first flag raising atop Mount
Suribachi, February 23, 1945. Hank
Hansen (without helmet), Boots Thomas
(seated), John Bradley (behind
Thomas) Phil Ward (hand visible
grasping pole), Jim Michaels (with
carbine) and Chuck Lindberg (behind
Michaels).
Photo by Lou Lowery. 10AM, Feb. 23,
1945
Here's the second flag raising as seen in the the most
reproduced photograph in the history of photography.
• Of the six men depicted in the picture,
three (Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block,
and Michael Strank) were killed during
the battle; the three survivors (John
Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes)
became celebrities upon their
identification in the photo. The picture
was later used by Felix de Weldon to
sculpt the USMC War Memorial, located
adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery
just outside Washington, D.C.
"In that moment, Rosenthal's
camera recorded the soul
of a nation."
. . .Editors of US Camera
Magazine.
"It was like shooting a
football game. You never
knew what you got on
film."
. . . Joe Rosenthal,
Photographer
Which to use?
» (V)ictor (C)harlie
• The Blunt Reality of War
in Vietnam
It was perhaps the most
controversial cover for
LIFE magazine, which
usually steered clear of
controversy.
Paul Schutzers captured
this image of a VietCong
prisoner gagged and
bound, being taken
prisoner by American
forces during the
Vietnam War.
Photography and news
coverage like this helped
to turn the American
public against the
Vietnam war.
#1
The photo is known by at least 3 well known titles:
“Terror of War,” “Vietnam Napalm,” and “Children
Fleeing an American Napalm Strike.” All the titles
invite multiple, different, and worthwhile
interpretations of the image.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thị_Kim_Phúc - 32k
http://streamer.espeakers.com/2/6472/14914.jpg
This picture was shot by Eddie Adams who won the
Pulitzer price with it.
#2
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John Filo's iconic
Pulitzer Prizewinning
photograph of
Mary Ann Vecchio,
a fourteen-yearold runaway,
kneeling over the
dead body of
Jeffrey Miller after
he was shot by the
National Guard.
worldsfamousphotos.com/.../kent-state-1970.jpg
#3
#4
http://jaccuse.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/myanmar/
#5
http://www.nppa.org
www.nppa.org/.../05/images/horst_faas_02_000.jpg
#6
Cather ine Leroy
#7
#8
Chick Harrity Pulitizer
“Operation Baby Lift” – 1975
-Evacuation of South Vietnamese
Orphans
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Vietnam-war-picture-that-touched-a-nation-can-still-surprise/2005/05/22/1116700595259.html
This well-known photo taken by Hubert van Es shows South Vietnamese
civilians scrambling to board a CIA Air America helicopter during the U.S.
evacuation of Saigon.
#9
Fall of Saigon-April 28, 1975
-US pleaded for time
“The Saddest Occurrence” –President Gerald Ford
http://www.vapoliticalblogs.com/2007/12/18/page/2/
6,500 Americans
and South
Vietnamese
officials were
evacuated.
“Insure that all 400 Americans in the Embassy
compound are evacuated in this operation ASAP.”
Trivia
• What song was played through the
streets of S. Vietnam that indicated it
was time to evacuate the city?
Boat People
Agent Orange
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#10
Cam Lo, Quang Tri Province. Phan Thi Hoi bathes her 14-year-old son, Bui
Quang Ky. She was exposed to Agent Orange when she was in the North
Vietnamese Army during the war.
http://www.vn-agentorange.org/VanityFair_200608s.html
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