AP images of Vietnam War exhibited in country for 1st time

FILE – In this June 11, 1963, file photo, Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, sets himself on fire and burns to death at a highway intersection in Saigon, Vietnam. (Source: AP)
They were the images that communicated the horrors of war in ways words could not.
They were so much more than just photographs, Vietnam’s president said on Thursday, recalling black-and-white images he said he will never forget the war that ended 40 years ago: A Buddhist monk consumed by flames in a fiery suicide. A screaming Vietnamese child running down a road naked, as her skin burns from a napalm attack.
“They gave the whole world a full picture of what was going on in Vietnam,” President Truong Tan Sang told The Associated Press ahead of an exhibit of the AP’s wartime photographs in Hanoi. “I believe these photos made an enormous contribution to bringing the war in Vietnam to an end.”
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