It raises various questions about the incident. He said that his picture ruined the life of General Loan. Even Eddie Adams later admitted that the picture didnвЂ™t tell the whole story and he stated that he wished he hadnвЂ™t taken it at all. When we first see the picture we see undeniable brutality but the picture depicts half truth of the story. The picture is quiet different and intimidating because it has captured the moment of death, the moment of bullet entering the temple of the Viet cong. The Viet Cong, with his hands being tied, is not able to do anything but get shot on his head.

We cannot see two sided attack in the picture. The street seems empty due to the effect of the Tet Offensive. The picture has captured an entire view of the street of Saigon along with some houses by the side of the road. He is in a plaid shirt and his arms are tied behind his back. The person being shot is one of the members of Viet Cong.

The person with a gun in his hand is a South Vietnamese police General Nguyen Ngoc Loan with his soldier backed. This assault changed the perception of public towards war and led to end the US involvement in war. It was on the second day of Tet Offensive, an assault coordinated by North Vietnamese with Viet Cong to attack about a hundred South Vietnamese cities and towns. The picture was shot on one of the streets of Cholon, the Chinese section of Saigon in South Vietnam. This is one of the most popular pictures of Vietnam War which shows a South Vietnamese general executing a Viet Cong in Saigon. вЂA gun to the headвЂ™ is a picture from Vietnam War (1955-1975) by Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer Prize for this photograph.

Famous vietnam photo gun to head