1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,920 Speaker 1: This Day in History Class is a production of I 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: Heart Radio. Hello, Hello, everyone, Welcome to This Day in 3 00:00:07,280 --> 00:00:10,479 Speaker 1: History Class, where we bring you a new tidbit from 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: history every day. Today is June eighth, nineteen. The day 5 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: was Dune eighth, nineteen seventy two. The Vietnam War, a 6 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:33,159 Speaker 1: particularly deadly conflict, had been going on for nearly two decades. 7 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:38,400 Speaker 1: Associated Press photographer Nick Boot was outside of Chong Bong, 8 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: a village in southeast Vietnam, when a South Vietnamese aircraft 9 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: dropped his payload of napalm. Boot took photos of the scene. 10 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: One of those photos became known as the Napalm Girl 11 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: photo of black and white picture of a young girl 12 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: named Fonti Kim Fuk running naked as other children ran 13 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:03,920 Speaker 1: alongside her. In South Vietnamese forces followed. The horrifying picture 14 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,320 Speaker 1: became a symbol of the brutality of the war, and 15 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: it got Nick Oot a Pulitzer prize. Nick Oot was 16 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: born in Vietnam in nineteen fifty one. After his older brother, 17 00:01:16,319 --> 00:01:20,639 Speaker 1: who was an Associated Press photographer, died in Vietnam, Oot 18 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:24,000 Speaker 1: began to take photos for the a p at age sixteen, 19 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:27,800 Speaker 1: Out was covering the Vietnam war for the ap when 20 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 1: he captured the photo. Near Chang Bong, a South Vietnamese 21 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: Air Force pilot flying a propeller driven American made A 22 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,280 Speaker 1: one skywriter carried out the napalm bombing at Chang Bong. 23 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:42,680 Speaker 1: The point of the attack was to get North Vietnamese 24 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: units out of their positions at Chong Bong. As witnessed 25 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: the aftermath of the attack, he took photos. He used 26 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: the Lika M two camera with a thirty five millimeter 27 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: Sumicron Lands TV cameraman Alan Downs had also caught footage 28 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:00,960 Speaker 1: of Kim Fuch and the other children running down the 29 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: road away from the napalm attack. At the time it 30 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 1: took the photo, called the Terror of War, Kim Fuch 31 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:12,120 Speaker 1: was nine years old. Kim Fuke is just left of 32 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,040 Speaker 1: center in the photo, her mouth open in a yell 33 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:18,200 Speaker 1: and her arms outstretched as she runs towards the camera. 34 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: The children that surround her are clothed and the South 35 00:02:22,080 --> 00:02:25,359 Speaker 1: Vietnamese forces walk behind them as a plume of smoke 36 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: rises in the background. The fire caused by the bombs 37 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:33,120 Speaker 1: had burned off Kim Fuch's clothes and burned her skin. 38 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: A correspondent gave her water and poured some on her burns. 39 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: When realized that Kim Fuch had been burned, he took 40 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: her to a hospital in Saigone doctor said she might 41 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,560 Speaker 1: not survive her third degree burns, and she was sent 42 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:52,799 Speaker 1: to a specialist plastic surgery center. She received many surgical 43 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: procedures for her injuries and survived, though some of her 44 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 1: family members died. An editor at the AP rejected the 45 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: photo because it showed full frontal nudity. Back then, photos 46 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: that included nudity were off limits. Horse Foss, head of 47 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: the Saigon photo department, said that they should make an 48 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: exception to publish the photo under the condition that no 49 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: close ups of Kim Fuk would be permitted. Help Buel, 50 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:22,920 Speaker 1: the New York photo editor, also believed the photo was 51 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: worth sharing despite the nudity, so the AP transmitted the photo. 52 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 1: Many news rooms had to disregard their own policies of 53 00:03:30,440 --> 00:03:34,119 Speaker 1: nudity depiction in photographs to publish the image. White House 54 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: recordings that were later released showed that then President Richard 55 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 1: Nixon in Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, wondered whether 56 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: the photo was authentic or actually staged. At the time 57 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: the photo was published, anti war sentiment had already been 58 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: escalating in the United States, so the photo did not 59 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 1: really contribute as much to such feelings among Americans as 60 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 1: some media sources have stated. It's also a myth, as 61 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,280 Speaker 1: some sources have not it that the photo helped in 62 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,560 Speaker 1: the war, which came to a close in nineteen seventy five. 63 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,600 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy three, the United States pulled out of 64 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 1: the Vietnam War. That same year, Oot won the Pulitzerprise 65 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: for Spot News Photography and the World Press Photo of 66 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: the Year for that image. Oot and kim Fuch stayed 67 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:23,720 Speaker 1: in touch over the years. Nick Oot retired in t seventeen. 68 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,119 Speaker 1: Kim Fuch went on to help victims of war around 69 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: the world. 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