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...DIED. EDDIE ADAMS, 71, American photojournalist whose shocking picture of a South Vietnam general executing a Vietcong guerrilla on the streets of Saigon changed the way people viewed the Vietnam War; in New York City. Working for the Associated Press, TIME and Parade magazine, Adams covered 13 wars and won more than 500 photojournalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for his Vietnam photograph. "I wasn't out to save the world," he once said of his work. "I was out to get a story...
...Follow the Money The ratio of eyewitnesses who support John Kerry's Vietnam War record to those who do not can only be described as overwhelming. Yet your Notebook report "Kerry in Combat: Setting the Record Straight" [Aug. 30] allowed baseless accusations to be elevated to charges worthy of serious contemplation. Follow the money that subsidizes the calumnies of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The trail leads to well-bankrolled Republican Party operatives doing what they do best: smearing good people and lying to American voters. David Federman Narberth...
...went on to write 30 novels, as well as short stories and plays . DIED. EDDIE ADAMS, 71, photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1968 image of a Viet Cong captive shot at point-blank range by a South Vietnamese police chief on a Saigon street during the Vietnam War; in New York City. As a teenager in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, he charged $20 to shoot weddings and went on to cover 13 wars for such news outlets as the Associated Press, Life magazine and Parade. He also took moving, often black-and-white portraits of world leaders, activists...
...easy; the police and the protests’ sponsors did most of the work anyhow, blocking traffic and setting up the routes. The obvious planning that had gone into these organized events wore on their symbolism. We protestors were apparently not angry enough to match the rowdiness of our Vietnam-era counterparts. Meanwhile, what spontaneous disturbances did crop up often served to alienate voters. Collectively, it was quite possible that we hadn’t convinced a single person to vote any differently...
...focusing on substantive debate on the candidates’ political records, it seems that the media cannot ignore the lure of sensation. The major news networks’ excessive concentration on the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’s crusade to mar Kerry’s courageous Vietnam record this summer and their continued focus on these suspect documents now demonstrate a frustrating disregard for solid coverage of real issues...