Innocent Victim

Innocent Victim

Bound volume

Horst Faas

Maker
German, 1933–2012

Innocent Victim

Horst Faas/The Associated Press/News Photography


March 19, 1964
Gelatin silver print
35.5 x 28 cm.
Gift of Horst Faas
2002.0488.0004
Inscriptions (on printed label on page): Innocent Victim. A Vietnamese child, her
body completely covered with burns from a napalm bomb, is held by her
father after rescue from a Vietnamese village near the Cambodian
border. The child was found in a field of reeds after Vietnamese
Air Force bombers strafed the village where Communis Viet Cong
guerrillas sought to hide among innocent victims. AP Wirephoto by
Horst Faas, March 19, 1964.
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