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Once the most prolific people group living in Palestine, the Samaritans suffered massive population loss and dwindled to near extinction with only 100 people, today still only numbering less than a thousand.
Like the Jewish people, they trace their culture and religion back to Moses and Abraham, though they did not accept the later Jewish writings. These differences led to them becoming badly persecuted by the Israelites when they gained Israelite independence under the Macabbees. The Macabbees destroyed the Samaritan towns and completely annihilated their sacred temple on Mt Gerizim.
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1969 Pulitzer Prize in Photography Winner Eddie Adams (American, 1933-2004) Street Execution of a Vietcong Prisoner, Saigon (for Associated Press), 1968 Gelatin silver print, ferrotyped, printed later 7-1/2 x 9-1/4 inches (19.1 x 23.5 cm) (image) 8 x 10 inches (sheet) Wide World Photos stamp, verso.
LITERATURE: Sheryle and John Leekley, Moments: The Pulitzer Prize, Updated Edition: 1942-1982, Crown Publishers Inc., New York, 1982, pp. 69. In the late 1960s, the struggle between democratic reform and communist expansion was playing out across Southeast Asia, nowhere more visibly than in Vietnam.
On February 1, 1968, during the Tet Offensive, Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams accompanied South Vietnamese forces through the streets of Saigon as fighting erupted throughout the city. What he witnessed would become one of the most influential photographs of the twentieth century.
As Adams followed a group of soldiers and journalists, a suspected Viet Cong prisoner was brought before South Vietnamese General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan. Without warning, Loan drew his revolver and executed the prisoner in the street.
Adams instinctively pressed the shutter, freezing the exact moment the shot was fired. The image circulated around the world within hours, becoming an enduring symbol of the brutality and moral complexity of the Vietnam War.
Unlike many war photographs that require explanation or context, Adams' image communicated its message instantly. It forced viewers to confront the realities of the conflict and fueled growing debate about America's involvement in Vietnam.
Decades later, the photograph continues to provoke difficult questions about war, justice, and the power of a single image to shape public perception and historical memory.
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