NEW YORK — It was a fraction of a second that jolted Americans’ view of the Vietnam War.
In a Saigon street, South Vietnam’s police chief raised a gun to the head of a handcuffed Viet Cong prisoner and abruptly pulled the trigger. A few feet away, Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams pressed his shutter.
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