Selasa, 05 September 2017

Esper and Ut Ride Again

Long after the war, the AP’s George Esper and Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Nick Ut turned up to get another scoop in Vietnam. Vietnam’s June 2012 issue, with its remembrance of George Esper and story behind Nick Ut’s 1972“Napalm Girl” photograph, sparked a poignant memory for me. In September 1988, the United States conducted the first …

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