A Father's Tragic Burden
Bound volume
A Father's Tragic Burden
Horst Faas/The Associated Press/News Photography
March 19, 1964
Gelatin silver print
28 x 35.5 cm.
Gift of Horst Faas
2002.0488.0003
Inscriptions (on printed label on page): A Father's Tragic Burden. The body of a
child killed in a battle in South Vietnam March 19, 1964 is held by
his father as Rangers of the Vietnamese army look down from a tank.
The child was a victim of the fighting between the government forces
as they pursued Viet Cong guerrillas into a village near the
Cambodian border. AP Wirephoto by Horst Faas
child killed in a battle in South Vietnam March 19, 1964 is held by
his father as Rangers of the Vietnamese army look down from a tank.
The child was a victim of the fighting between the government forces
as they pursued Viet Cong guerrillas into a village near the
Cambodian border. AP Wirephoto by Horst Faas
