who took this photo of the napalm girl back in 1972?
Toronto. The Vietnamese child photographed in 1972 showing the horrors of napalm now lives in the GTA. Recently, as noted in many papers such as the Globe and Mail here and the Guardian in the UK, a recent video on Netflix refutes who took the photograph. According to Netflix, “We have to be able to ask difficult questions’: who really took the iconic Napalm Girl photo?”
The Guardian precedes its article with the statement “A controversial Netflix documentary follows an investigation into the truth behind one of the most important wartime photos ever taken”.
Read the Guardian article and see which Vietnamese photographer is said to have recorded the sad event. My thanks to PHSC member George Dunbar who phoned to tell me about the Globe article. Unfortunately, the Globe hides its articles behind a pay wall. The Guardian does not.
