A Photo That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War<br />McMahon shifted that It really introduced a set of moral questions<br />that would increasingly shape debate about the Vietnam War: Is our presence in Vietnam legitimate or just, and are we conducting the war in a way that is moral?<br />Michelle Nickerson said that It hit people in the gut in a way that only a visual text can do,<br />Susan said that You can talk about ‘the execution photograph from the Vietnam War,’ and not just the generation who lived through it<br />but multiple generations can call that image to mind,<br />Robert J. McMahon said that fed into a developing narrative in the wake of the Tet offensive<br />that the Vietnam War was looking more and more like an unwin<br />"The photo translated the news of Tet in a way that you can’t quantify in terms of how many people were, at<br />that moment, turned against the war." The execution happened on Feb. 1, 1968, two days after Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces launched the coordinated attacks of the Tet offensive.
