Sunday, May 17, 2009

May 16, 2009 Photographer: Hugh Van Es | 1941-2009

Photos and excerpts from LA Times.

Hugh Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War and recorded the most famous image of the fall of Saigon in 1975 -- a group of people scaling a stairway to a CIA helicopter on a rooftop -- died Friday morning in Hong Kong, his wife said. He was 67.



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