A recent documentary claimed that a local freelancer, not photographer Nick Ut, took the famous shot of a naked Vietnamese ...
He was there that day too. The film's claim of what happened is relatively simple. It says that Horst Faas, the AP photo editor in Saigon, knew that Nghe had taken the photo, but after paying him ...
AP declined. That hampered the AP’s own investigation, along with the passage of time. Horst Faas, chief of photos for AP in Saigon in 1972, and Yuichi “Jackson” Ishizaki, who developed Ut ...