(Photo by Tim Mantoani)
Last night the LA chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded Nick Ut the Lifetime Achievement Award at a banquet over at the Omni Hotel in downtown LA.
Born in Vietnam, Nick Ut joined the Associated Press in 1966 as a war photographer. While covering the invasion of Cambodia in 1970, Ut was wounded three times. On a rainy day on June 8, 1972, Ut photographed 9-year-old Kim Phuc running from a misdirected napalm bomb that dropped on her home. The girl suffered third-degree burns over 75 percent of her body. “After I took her picture, I didn’t want to see her die,” Ut said. He rushed her to a hospital. The photograph was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. It also won awards from the World Press Photo, Sigma Delta Chi, George Polk Memorial Award, Overseas Press Club and National Press Club. In 1993, Ut opened the AP bureau in Hanoi and moved AP’s first photograph out of the post-war office. Ut, who also worked in Tokyo, has been in the Los Angeles bureau off and on since 1977.
Nick Ut recalls the Events of June 8, 1972
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