The Associated Press finds ‘no definitive evidence’ to change credit for famous Vietnam War photo.
Months after the release of a film that questions who took an iconic Vietnam War image of a naked girl running from a napalm attack, The Associated Press said Tuesday it had found “no definitive evidence” to warrant changing a nearly 53-year-old photo credit.
The AP released a 96-page report — its second examination in less than four months — about who actually took the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo credited to Nick Ut that became one of the defining images of the 20th century. A documentary shown at Sundance in January, “The Stringer,” asserts that it was actually shot by another man, Nguyen Thanh Nghe, but that credit was given to Ut, an AP staff photographer.
The AP concluded that it was “possible” Ut took the photo, but it was unable to be proven conclusively due to the passage of time, absence of key evidence, limitations of technology and the deaths of several key people involved.
Read the full story by David Bauder at:
https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-war-napalm-girl-photograph-credit-f56690ac24205985c67fb79c688e94e9
