New Claim Emerges Over Iconic 'Napalm Girl' Photo, Decades After Pulitzer
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A new documentary features a Vietnamese man who says he, not the long-credited Associated Press photographer, took one of history's most famous war images. The claim challenges the accepted story behind the 1972 "Napalm Girl" photo.
The man, a local news assistant known as a stringer, makes the statement in the Netflix film "The Stringer." He says he captured the photograph of children fleeing a napalm attack during the Vietnam War.
The image, showing a young girl running naked and burned, became a global symbol of the war's horror. It won the Pulitzer Prize for photographer Nick Ut, who was working for the AP at the time.
In response to the claim, the AP says it stands by its original reporting and the credit given to Nick Ut. The news agency states that Ut was the photographer on the scene who processed the film and transmitted the picture to the world.