Famed photographer who captured Saigon’s fall dies at 67

The photo by Hubert Van Es often is mistaken for the top of the U.S. Embassy

By William Branigin / The Bulletin
May 17, 2009

WASHINGTON — Hubert Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who captured one of the most memorable but widely mischaracterized images of the Vietnam War, a U.S. helicopter taking on evacuees from a rooftop in Saigon as North Vietnamese troops closed in on the South Vietnamese capital, died....

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