(AP Photo/Eddie Adams, File)on NEW YORK (AP) — It was a fraction of a second that jolted Americans’ view of the Vietnam War. In a Saigon street, South Vietnam’s police chief raised a gun to the head ...

It is she who should be remembered these nearly 50 years after one of the most famous photos of all time was captured on the road from Trang Bang.

“I was the AP’s Saigon photo editor back in 1972. … Simply put, Nick didn’t really take that famous photograph ... Terri Lichstein and Le Van in Vietnam, locates a man, Nguyen Thanh ...

In the photo ... with wounds from Vietnam, knelt on the tarmac with the help of two nurses. He was one of 19 POWs to return on that flight. Kerns, who was shot in the head before being taken ...