Park City, Utah (APP)-After the public silence of the half-century, a Free Lance photographer from Vietnam has stressed that he has one of the most famous and impressive pictures of the 20th century. Lia-picture of a bare girl in which the Neeplum attack is fleeing. South Vietnam, which has long been given to a photographer of the Associated Press staff.
Nigwin police station Naghi claims to have written the Pulitzer Prize A picture of the “Nepalm Girl” In the new documentary movie “The Sterling” and on his premiere Saturday night Sandins Film Festival In Park City, Utah.
The AP investigated and said that it had no reason to conclude that no longer credit photographer, none other than Nick UT had made a picture. The news agency said it was “surprised and disappointed” that the film banners presented it as a review of the content of the film and dismissed it. The AP said he saw the film for the first time in the syndrine.
The song joined the movie banners for the post -screening question, where he said, “By an translator,” I took a picture. ” The audience was enthusiastically happy. He did not say why he waited so much to claim.
The AP said it would review the content but wanted to talk to the assistants who signed non -diarrhea materials for film banners, including the NGHE. “We can’t more clearly state that the Associated Press is interested in the facts and the true history of this famous picture.”
To investigate a picture caught in the fog of war
Nigivan says he drew a famous photo of Kim Folk on June 8, 1972. Naghi said he went to Tarang Bang’s town as a driver of the NBC News staff that day and fled the folk running on the road, crying and seizing a picture of naked. With arms spread. He said he sold his image to the AP for $ 20, and he gave him a print of the photo that his wife was later destroyed.
AP representatives, who watched the film for the first time in the premiere on Saturday, are fighting the film’s functions that the company reviewed and dismissed their results.
AP spokesperson, Lauren Easton, said on Sunday, “As recent December, we reaffirmed our request to see the full content of the film banners and they did not respond, nor did they film. I added the full response to the AP. ” “We were surprised and disappointed that the film presented the AP as a review of the content of the film and rejecting the allegations, which is completely wrong.”
The film’s investigation was led by the founder of the VII Foundation, Gary Knight’s husband and wife’s team and producer Fiona Turner. Vietnamese American filmmaker, Bau Nigwin, directed.
“I am not a journalist with any kind of imagination,” said Nigivan. “I had a healthy doubts, as I think anyone will be against the 53 -year -old truth. … But as a storytender and a filmmaker, I thought it was my responsibility and I had the honor that I could develop the story of people like Nig.
AP freely investigated
Before watching the movie, the AP was held His own investigation For more than six months and concluded that he had no reason to believe in anyone other than UT. ” Now, the AP is demanding the film fans to keep their articles on their articles on their articles, allowing the company to be fully investigated.
“AP is ready to review any and all evidence and new information about this photo,” said Easton.
Knight and Turner met with the AP in London last June about the allegations. According to the AP, the film fans requested the news organization to sign a non -inflammatory agreement before providing its evidence. The AP will not. The film shows that evidence was presented to the AP, which the AP says is not true.
One of the main sources of the film is Carl Robinson, then the AP Photo Editor in Siggan, who was brought to the decision not to use the image by the AP’s Segun Chief Photo Hurst FAA. Robinson said in the film that the FAAS had directed him to “make staff” and credit for the picture. The FAAS and Yuchi “Jackson” Asiazaki, who made the film, have died. Robinson, 81, was dismissed by the AP in 1978.
On Saturday, a moderator at the Syndrins Institute asked why he now wants to come forward with the allegations. Robinson told the audience after the screening, “I didn’t want to die before the story came out.” “I wanted to find (nghe) and apologize.”
Numerous witnesses interviewed by the AP, including renowned representatives like Fox Butterfield and Peter Arnett, and the article in this photo, say they have definitely been photographed.
This documentary included the forensic of the scene
Robinson was the same person who tried to talk during his investigation but “we were told that we could do so only under these terms” he said he “was needed. It would be prevented from taking a speedy action.
It took two years to investigate the film. Journalists added a French forensic team to the index list to help determine whether the UT was in a position to take pictures. The forensics team concluded that it was unlikely that the UT could do it.
After the UT’s lawyer, James Horestin, Sunday, Sunday said: “At the appropriate time, we will move the wrong to a room where Nick UT’s reputation will be justified.”
The company’s statement was available online, citing the AP investigation on Saturday, citing the AP investigation. “He said he was always open to checking the truth. And I think it was a very reasonable thing to say, “Knight said. “Our story is here and it’s here to see you all.”
He added: “Things happen in the field in this moment. … We are all strong if we examine ourselves, ask tough questions, and open about what we go through in our profession. Are honest.
There are no distribution plans in the “Stronger”.
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