Vietnam, 35 Years Ago

The end of April marked the 35th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and Boston.com’s The Big Picture has an excellent set of images from the war. Most of these I’d seen before, some of them are iconic, but there are a few sequences in here you generally don’t see (like Nick Ut’s images of the bombing that lead to the Kim Phuc running photo and frames from before and after Eddie Adams’ street side execution.)

And the images from Horst Faas? Holy cow …

Mark E. Johnson

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