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| AP photographer Nick Ut |
The Vietnam War ended with South Vietnam's official surrender to North Vietnam on April 30, 1975. Many, if not most, Americans had pretty much turned against the war by then. Daily news coverage, complete with film and photos of both soldiers and civilians, exposed the horror in ways words could not. One of the most powerful images from that time was that of a young girl running naked down a road, crying. There are other children running with her, and U.S. soldiers who aren't, and behind them all the sky is dark with smoke. The picture was taken just outside the village of Trang Bang by Vietnamese-American photographer Nick Ut on June 8, 1972. Ut recalls the day and the girl, 9-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc, whose life he saved and with whom he has kept in touch, in this interview: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/04/vietnam-war-napalm-girl-photo-today
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