File:My Lai massacre.jpg
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DescriptionMy Lai massacre.jpg |
English: Photo taken by United States Army photographer Ronald L. Haeberle on March 16, 1968 in the aftermath of the My Lai massacre showing mostly women and children dead on a road. |
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Source | Copied from Krysstal.com, "The Acts of the Democracies" http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_vietnam_mylai.html | ||||
Author | Ronald L. Haeberle | ||||
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See also discussion of copyright status there. The photo is copied and used in many places which mention the massacre. This particular image was copied from the KryssTal Web Site (which also shows more graphic alternate images).[1] According to Camilla Griggers, professor of Visual Communication and Linguistics at California State University, Channel Islands:
According to John Morris, the photo editor for The New York Times at the time, Haeberle claimed that the images on his personal camera were his own copyright, but the Times and other publications printed them without payment in the "public interest", and also arguably in the public domain, produced by the U.S. Army:
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Other versions | Another version of this photograph is available as File:Dead from the My Lai massacre on road.jpg |
- ↑ Krysstal.com, "The Acts of the Democracies" http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_vietnam_mylai.html
- ↑ Camilla Benolirao Griggers, "War and the Politics of Perception," chapter 1 from the essay Visualizing War, taken from http://www.planznow.com/texto4.html
- ↑ Pg 36 - Morris, John G. (Summer 1998). "Get the Picture: A Personal History of Photojournalism". The Nieman Foundation for Journalism vol. 52 (no. 2): 32-38. Bill Kovach. ISSN 0028-9817. Retrieved on April 17, 2010.
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