Wednesday, March 14, 2018

SAIGON September 1967-- MEETING IN THE RAIN

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The Chief of South Vietnam’s National Police, Brig. Gen Nguyen Ngoc Loan, (who later was the shooter in the famous “Saigon execution” photo) stands in the park outside the presidential palace in Saigon with militant Buddhist leader Thich Tri Quang, who was staging an anti-government protest vigil. He was not arresting him but inviting Quang inside to escape the deluge of one of the worst monsoon storms of the year. 

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