History Everyday on Instagram: "This photograph was taken by Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams on February 1, 1968, during the Vietnam War. It shows South Vietnamese General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing Nguyễn Văn Lém, a member of the Viet Cong, on a street in Saigon. Lém had been captured during the Tet Offensive, a major coordinated attack launched by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces against South Vietnam and its allies. Reports at the time stated that Lém had been accused of partic