Shot by U.S. Soldier
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Photograph
Shot by U.S. Soldier
December 7, 1970
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.5 x 20.3 cm (6 1/2 x 8 in.)
Paper: 18 x 22.7 cm (7 1/16 x 8 15/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0037
Inscriptions verso (ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): A3363 (NY 2) / ASSOCIATED PRESS RADIOPHOTO FROM SAIGON / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / SHOT BY U.S. SOLDIER / NGUYEN VAN MINH, A 13-YEAR-OLD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT FROM QUI NHON, SOUTH VIETNAM, LIES / DEAD DEC. 7 AFTER HE WAS SHOT BY A U.S. / SOLDIER. THE YOUTH WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD AS / HE SAT ON A FENCE OUTSIDE HIS SCHOOL. HE / TOPPLED FORWARD BUT HIS BODY DID NOT FALL / TO THE GROUND BECAUSE HIS MIDSECTION WAS / CAUGHT BY A FENCE POST. MINH'S DEATH / TOUCHED OFF TWO DAYS OF ANTI-AMERICAN RIOT- / ING. EYEWITNESSES TO THE INCIDENT SAY MINH / WAS NOT KILLED ACCIDENTALLY AS U.S. OFFICIALS / REPORTED. THE U.S. ARMY HAS CHARGED THE / SOLDIER WITH NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE IN THE / KILLING. / RB/RJS 1116 12/11/70 RCA 48 / NYWS FLS NSL STAATS ET LD PS S&S / MEX RM GER TOK BAIRES PR TMC NWSK WW
(typed on attached sheet): A3363 (NY 2) / ASSOCIATED PRESS RADIOPHOTO FROM SAIGON / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / SHOT BY U.S. SOLDIER / NGUYEN VAN MINH, A 13-YEAR-OLD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT FROM QUI NHON, SOUTH VIETNAM, LIES / DEAD DEC. 7 AFTER HE WAS SHOT BY A U.S. / SOLDIER. THE YOUTH WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD AS / HE SAT ON A FENCE OUTSIDE HIS SCHOOL. HE / TOPPLED FORWARD BUT HIS BODY DID NOT FALL / TO THE GROUND BECAUSE HIS MIDSECTION WAS / CAUGHT BY A FENCE POST. MINH'S DEATH / TOUCHED OFF TWO DAYS OF ANTI-AMERICAN RIOT- / ING. EYEWITNESSES TO THE INCIDENT SAY MINH / WAS NOT KILLED ACCIDENTALLY AS U.S. OFFICIALS / REPORTED. THE U.S. ARMY HAS CHARGED THE / SOLDIER WITH NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE IN THE / KILLING. / RB/RJS 1116 12/11/70 RCA 48 / NYWS FLS NSL STAATS ET LD PS S&S / MEX RM GER TOK BAIRES PR TMC NWSK WW
