Van Es, who took famous Vietnam pic, dies
p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Hubert van Es, the Dutch photographer who took the famous photograph of a US army helicopter lifting people from a roof in Saigon at the end of the Vietnam war, has died.
“The photo became a symbol of the chaotic pull-out by the Americans,” says Dutch News, going on »»»
Van Es, who worked for US press agency UPI, took the photo by chance when the helicopter landed on the roof close to the hotel he was staying in.
There was no possibility that all the people on the roof could get into the helicopter, and it took off with 12 or 14 on board. (The recommended maximum for that model was eight.)
Those left on the roof waited for hours, hoping for more helicopters to arrive. To no avail,’ he said in an article with the New York Times.”
He died of a stroke in Hong Kong, “where he had lived for years,” the story has Nos tv saying.
He was 67.
Dutch News – War photographer Hubert van Es dies, May 15, 2009
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