The Terror of War—Was Nick Ut's "Napalm Girl" photo taken with a Pentax camera?

[MarkWalberg]

I read the AP report. It says that Nguyen Thanh Nghe turned in film, never saw the negatives, and was given $20 and a print. He thinks that the print is the same as the famous picture, but the print has been destroyed. As far as I can tell from the AP report, that is the entire case that he can make for taking the famous picture. This is not a very strong argument, I think. It may well be that he took a very similar picture. Since his print is gone, it will never be possible to be sure about it. The AP report concludes that it is impossible to say for sure, but it seems clearly possible that the picture could have been taken by either Ut or Nghe. It is not my place to decide, of course, but the case to take credit from Ut seems weak to me.

 

[MarkWalberg]

Also, the picture from the Getty collection showing Nghe in about the right spot is clearly not taken at the same time as the famous picture. The reason this is clear is that the Getty picture with Nghe also has the moving camera crew present. The moving picture crew is definitely not present at the time of the famous picture. Only pictures from a later time show the moving camera crew present when people have poured water on Kim Phuc and are trying to help her.