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Page 9: In last paragraph "at left, screaming in agony   etc.)

Ho Van Bon (not Ho Van Bo) and Ho Thi Hien (not Ho Thi Ting).

Page 10: In first paragraph "Other pictures show "

Boy Phan Van Cuong (not Phan Can Cuong) and grandmother Ly Thi Tao (not Ly
Thi Tho)
 

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Photo 23: Phan Van Cuong (instead of Phan Can Cuong) and grandmother Ly Thi
Tao (not Ly Thi Tho).

Photo 24: Phan Van Cuong (instead of Phan Can Cuong) and grandmother Ly Thi
Tao (not Ly Thi Tho).

Photo 25:  Phan Van Cuong (instead of Phan Can Cuong) and grandmother Ly
Thi Tao (not Ly Thi Tho).

Photo 26: grandmother Ly Thi Tao (not Ly Thi Tho).

Photo 27: grandmother Ly Thi Tao (not Ly Thi Tho).

Photo 28: grandmother Ly Thi Tao (not Ly Thi Tho).

Photo 32: Ho Van Bon (not Ho Van Bo) and Ho Thi Hien (not Ho Thi Ting).

Photo 33: Ho Van Bon (not Ho Van Bo) and Ho Thi Hien (not Ho Thi Ting).
 
 
 

Photo Material made available to Digital Journalist with the Phan Thi Kim
Phuc  story.
(selected material is highlighted and scanned at 200 and 72 dpi)

A: Original material in the AP Library (Neg.s and readouts).

(1) Not selected. 12 original negatives, from two or three rolls of film
taken by Nick Ut on June 8, 1972, in the AP photo library in New York. 8
additional negatives show Kim Phuc in hospital and after her return to
Trang Bang, November 1972.

(2) Not selected. Computer readout: Photos available in the AP digital
Library today: The Pulitzer winning image of Kim Phuc running down the road
at Trang Bang, and a Photo showing Kim Phuc in hospital, with library
captions. Both pictures were serviced by AP as radiophotos in 1972.

(3) Not selected. Computer readout. Photo available in the AP digital
Library today. Kim Phuc's grandmother Ly Thi Tao carries possibly already
dead boy Phan Van Danh along route 1, June 8, 1972. With library caption.
The picture was serviced by AP as radiophoto in 1972.

(4) Not selected. Computer readout.Photos available in the AP digital
Library today: Kim Phuc with her mother Du Ngoc Nu in a Saigon hospital,
June 10, 1972. And: Photo showing Phan Thi Kim Phuc back at home in Trang
Bang, 10 Nov. 1972.  With library captions. Both pictures were serviced by
AP as radiophotos in 1972.

B: Photos of the action on June 8, 1972

(5) Not selected. Vietnamese 25th Division infantrymen move out into the
paddies near Trang Bang on June 8, 1972. Background a burning building in
Trang Bang. Picture taken prior the air attack involving Kim Phuc. ).
(negative with Nick Ut)

(6) Vietnamese 25th Division infantrymen move out into the paddies near
Trang Bang on June 8, 1972. Background a burning building in Trang Bang.
Picture taken prior the air attack involving Kim Phuc. (similar to (5) ).
(negative with Nick Ut)

(7) Not selected. Refugees leaving Trang Bang on a dirt road in a cart
pulled by oxen. Taken morning June 8, 1972. ). (negative with Nick Ut)

(8) Not selected. Soldiers of the Vietnamese Army 25th Division on a
military operation near Trang Bang, 8 June 1972, carry one of their
wounded. Background a tank of the 25th Division. ). (negative with Nick Ut)

(9) Commercial and military traffic has come to a halt along Route 1, on
June 8, 1972, after north vietnamese troops occupied part of the Trang Bang
village. Background left the Cao Dai pagoda.  (photographed at noon, time
of the airstrike). (negative with Nick Ut)

(10) Not selected. Commercial and military traffic has come to a halt along
Route 1, on June 8, 1972, after northvietnamese troops occupied part of the
Trang Bang village. Background left the Cao Dai pagoda.  (photographed at
noon, time of the airstrike). (negative with Nick Ut)

(11) Not selected. Villagers from Trang Bang, women and children, flee
across the dry paddies and across barbed wire fencing from their village,
while the airstrikes go on, June 8, 1972. (negative with Nick Ut)

(12) Soldier assists villagers from Trang Bang, women and children, flee
across the dry paddies and across barbed wire fencing from their village,
while the airstrikes go on, June 8, 1972. (negative with Nick Ut)

(13) Not selected. A woman and her three children wait alongside Route - 1
after having fled from Trang Bang just before the airstrikes began.

(14) Bombs dropped by Skyraider planes of the Vietnamese Airforce explode
among trees and fields in the outskirts of Trang Bang, Noon 8 June, 1972.
(Negative with Nick Ut)

(15) A Skyraider  - a propeller driven plane - of the Vietnamese Airforce
(VNAF) 518th Squadron drops bombs with incendiary napalm and white
phosphorus (WP)  jelly over Trang Bang village (Negative with Nick Ut) 

(16) Closeup: A Skyraider  - a propeller driven plane - of the Vietnamese
Airforce (VNAF) 518th Squadron drops two bombs with incendiary napalm and
white phosphorus(WP)  jelly over Trang Bang village (Negative with Nick Ut)
 

(17) Closeup: A Skyraider  - a propeller driven plane - of the Vietnamese
Airforce (VNAF) 518th Squadron drops one bomb with incendiary napalm and
white phosphorus jelly over Trang Bang village (Negative with Nick Ut) 

(18) Not selected. The scene down Route 1 just prior to the bombing by VNAF
Skyraider planes. Kim Phuc's home is behind the Cao Dai pagoda.

(19) White phosphorus and napalm bombs explode across Route -1, amidst
homes and in front of the Cao Dai temple in the outskirts of Trang Bang. In
the foreground are Vietnamese soldiers and news- and cameramen from various
international news organisations who watch the scene. The towers of the Cao
Dai temple are visible in the centre of the explosions. (Copy print with
Nick Ut)

(20) Not selected. White phosphorus and napalm canisters explode across
Route -1, amidst homes and in front of the Cao Dai temple in the outskirts
of Trang Bang. Photo taken from the position where onlookers stand in the
second bomb explosion picture. The towers of the Cao Dai temple are visible
in the centre of the explosions. (Copy print with Nick Ut)

(21) Not selected. Unidentified Trang Bang villagers flee from their
village after the bombing. Left a Vietnamese cameraman. Right the helmeted
Vietnamese freelance photographer Hoang Can Danh, holding his
camera.(Negative with Nick Ut)

(22) Unidentified Trang Bang villagers flee from their village after the
bombing. Left a Vietnamese cameraman. Right a dog puppy runs along.
Background the towers of the pagoda.

(23) Not selected. The aunt of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Nguyen Thi Xi, at left
has turned back toward Trang Bang, running towards an unidentified man who
holds the nine months old boy Phan Can Cuong. The boy died ten days after
the bombing, on June 18, from burn injuries inflicted by napalm. Centre the
helmeted Vietnamese freelance photographer Hoang Can Danh, holding his
camera.  At right, running down Route-1, is Kim Phuc's grandmother Ly Thi
Tao, holding the three year old boy Phan Van Danh, who died in he airraid.
Background the towers of the Trang Bang Cao Dai pagoda (Negative with Nick
Ut).

(24) Not selected. CROPPED VERSION: The aunt of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Nguyen
Thi Xi, at left, holds the nine months old boy Phan Can Cuong. The boy died
ten days after the bombing, on June 18, from burn injuries inflicted by
napalm. Center the helmeted Vietnamese freelance photographer Hoang Can
Danh, holding his camera.  At right, running down Route-1, is Kim Phuc's
grandmother Ly Thi Tao, holding the three year old boy Phan Van Danh, who
died in he airraid. Background the towers of the Trang Bang Cao Dai pagoda.
(Copy print with Nick Ut)

(25) FULL NEGATIVE VERSION : The aunt of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Nguyen Thi Xi,
at left, holds the nine months old boy Phan Can Cuong. The boy died ten
days after the bombing, on June 18, from burn injuries inflicted by napalm.
Center the helmeted Vietnamese freelance photographer Hoang Can Danh,
holding his camera.  At right, running down Route-1, is Kim Phuc's
grandmother Ly Thi Tao, holding the three year old boy Phan Van Danh, who
died in he air raid. Background the towers of the Trang Bang Cao Dai
pagoda. (Negative with Nick Ut).

(26) Kim Phuc's grandmother Ly Thi Tao, holding the three year old boy Phan
Van Danh, who died in he airraid. (AP Photo, negative with AP)

(27) Not selected. CROPPED VERSION: Kim Phuc's grandmother Ly Thi Tao,
holding the three year old boy Phan Van Danh, who died in he airraid. (bad
copy print with Nick Ut.)

(28) WIDER VERSION: Kim Phuc's grandmother Ly Thi Tao, holding the three
year old boy Phan Van Danh, who died in he airraid. Rfight and left
Vietnamese soldiers, looking towards the woman. (AP Photos / Nick Ut).
Negative with AP.

(29) Newsmen and military stand across Route-1, waiting for more fleeing
villagers to emerge through the smoke from Trang Bang along the road. Lone
woman walking past them is not identified. (negative with Nick Ut)
 

(30) A woman holding a small child and a teenage girl holding her younger
brother flee down Route 1. (negative with Nick Ut)

(31) Soldiers and a photographer dressed in military shirt  have checked
out the vicinity of the Cao Dai pagoda, without making contact with the
enemy. (Negative with Nick Ut).
 
The Pulitzer winning Picture.

(32) KIM PHUC: Full frame of the main picture, showing part  of the
negative number and the film sprockets.
The picture shows  left to right:       
     Phan Thanh Tam, older brother of Phan Thi Kim Phuc. (12)
        Phan Thanh Phuoc, youngest brother of Phan Thi Kim Phuc.(5)
        Phan Thi Kim Phuc (9)
The young boy and girl holding hands are Kim Phuc's cousins, Ho Van Bon
(the boy) and Ho Thi Ting (the girl)
In the background are four South Vietnamese soldiers of the 25th Division,
smoke from the fires engulfing outskirts of the village of Trang Bang.
(Associated Press / Photo by Nick Ut) Original negative with AP)

(33)  KIM PHUC: The cropped version of the Pulitzer Prize main picture, 
The picture shows  left to right:       
         Phan Thanh Tam, older brother of Phan Thi Kim Phuc.(12)
               Phan Thanh Phuoc, youngest brother of Phan Thi Kim Phuc. (5)
         Phan Thi Kim Phuc (9)
       The young boy and girl holding hands are Kim Phuc's cousins, Ho Van
Bon      (the boy) and Ho Thi Ting (the girl)
In the background are four South Vietnamese soldiers of the 25th Division,
smoke from the fires engulfing outskirts of the village of Trang Bang.
(Associated Press / Photo by Nick Ut)  Digitally repaired negative with AP.
 

(34) KIM PHUC:
 A British television crew from Independent Television News (ITN, Britain),
photographers and Vietnamese soldiers of the 25th Division stand around
severely burned Phan Thi Kim Phuc, while a soldier gestures to her, June 8,
1972, on route 1 near Trang Bang. A journalist, ITN reporter Christopher
Wain (foreground, in cape) poured water over Kim Phuc. Behind Kim Phuc is
the ITN sound technician Tom Phillips. At right background, is NBC
cameraman Le Phuc Dinh, now living in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Wain and
Phillips now live near London in retirement.  (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
(Associated Press / Photo by Nick Ut)  Negative with AP. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

C: Phan Thi Kim Phuc after June 8, 1972,during the same year.

(35) (35) Phan Thi Kim Phuc is comforted by her mother  Du Ngoc Nu, in a
Saigon hospital on June 10, 1972. (Photo by Carl Robinson, AP).
Note: Kim Phuc mother Du Ngoc Ny, now 68, and her father, Phan Thanh Tung,
now 73, stay with Kim Phuc in Toronto, Canada. (negative with AP)

(36) (36) Patient Phan Thi Kim Phuc pushes the wheelchair of another child
patient at the Barsky Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in
Saigon, August 8, 1972. (Photo Michel Laurent, AP.)
Note: Michel Laurent was killed in action in Vietnam 28/4/1975, the   last
newsman to die in the war. (negative with AP)

(37) (37) Phan Thi Kim Phuc back in her home in Trang Bang village in
November 1972. The house was damaged by explosive bombs on the fatal June
8, 1972, and has not yet been fully repaired. (AP Photo, Nick Ut)
(38) Nick Ut (left, with Leica camera and goggles, visits with Phan Thi Kim
Phuc in Trang Bang, after she was released from hospital in November 1972.
Kim holds her little niece, To Thuy Linh. Nick Ut used goggles when riding
atop armored personnel carriers or tanks.  (Photo Carl Robinson, AP)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

D: Photos of photographer Nick Ut in the field.

  (39) AP photographer Huynh Cong Ut ("Nick" Ut) during one of  the many 
military operations he covered as an Associated Press photographer.  He
walks through a rice paddie, background a canal bank with brush and banana
trees. He wears a steel helmet and a flak-jacket. Around his neck is the
Leica with a 35mm lens, and a Nikon camera. Over his right shoulder Nick
carries another Nikon with a 300mm lens. The picture was taken near the
Cambodian border, in 1973. (Photo by Le Van Ly, AP) (horizontal, original
with Nick Ut)

  (40) Not selected. Nick Ut with Leica,  Nikon, in camouflage uniform and
helmet, in the field. Background Vietnamese soldiers. Near Cambodian
border. Undated. Horizontal. Original with Nick Ut.

  (41) Not selected. Nick Ut with Leica, , Nikon, in camouflage uniform and
helmet, in the field. Closeup.. Near Cambodian border. Undated. Horizontal.
Original with Nick Ut.

  (42) Not selected. Nick Ut, with camera bag, Nikon with long lens and
Nikon with 35mm lens, in camouflage uniform, small hat. Undated. Vertical.
Original with Nick Ut.

  (43) Not selected. Nick Ut, helmet, short sleeve uniform jacket. With
Nikon, long l;ens, Leica, camera and gear bags. Vertical. Undated. Original
with Nick Ut.
 E: Photos of  Phan Thi Kim Phuc since 1972.

  (44) Not selected. Phan Thi Kim Phuc leaves the podium at the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial in Washington on Monday, November 11, 1996, after
addressing a Veterans Day ceremony. (Photo by  Dennis Cook, AP)

  (45) Phan Thi Kim Phuc holds her son Thomas Huy Hoang at their home in
Toronto, Canada.  Background
 left is her husband, Bui Huy Toan. The family are now Canadian citizen,
but kept their Vietnamese names.
The photograph was taken in May 1997 in their Toronto apartment (Photo by
Nick Ut) (AP Photo, available in color)

  (46) Not selected. Phan Thi Kim Phuc (33) plays with her son Thomas Huy
Hoang (3) in a friend's apartment on May 25, 1997, in Toronto, Canada. 
(AP Photo, Nick Ut).  Available in color.

 F: Trang Bang Revisited. June 1997 And April 2000.

  (47) The mother of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Du Ngoc Nu (66) wipes tears from
her eyes with her husband Phan The Ngoc, on Route-1 in Trang Bang, June 1,
1997, near the 25th anniversary of the wounding of Kim Phuc on 8 June 1972.
(Photo by Richard Vogel, Associated Press). Available in color.

  (48) Not selected. The father of Phan Thi Kim Phuc (72) points towards
the shack where he and his wife Du Ngoc Nu, 66, live (in 1997). They live
near the scene of the mis-bombing on 8 June 1972. (Photo by Richard Vogel,
Associated Press). Available in color.
     Note: The parents now live with their daughter in Toronto, Canada.

  (49) Not selected. Vietnamese young men with their bikes on the stretch
of road on Route 1 which was a nightmare for Kim Phuc. Picture taken June
1, 1997, close to the 256th anniversary of the bombing of Trang Bang.
(Photo by Richard Vogel, Associated Press). Available in color.

  (50) Phan Thanh Tam, 41, right, points at the direction where he fled 28
years ago from the bombing on 8 June 1972 with his sister Phan Thi Kim Phuc
. At left Nick Ut, photographer. Phan Thanh Tam is shown in Ut's Pulitzer
Prize winning photo at left. Trang Bang, 25 April , 2000 (Photo by Horst
Faas / AP Photo) Available in color.

  (51) Phan Thanh Tam, 41, discusses with Nick Ut,. Photographer,the
bombing on 8 June 1972 in which his sister Phan Thi Kim Phuc was injured by
napalm and pictured by Nick Ut. Phan Thanh Tam is shown in Ut's Pulitzer
Prize winning photo at left, at the age of 12. At left is Phan The Ngoc's
brother Phan The Ngoc, who is not in the famous picture. Scene at  Trang
Bang, 25 April , 2000 (Photo by Horst Faas / AP Photo) Available in color.

G- Phan Thi Kim Phuc and Nick Ut at the opening of the Wellcome wing of the
London Science Museum.

  (52)  Horst Faas, Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut and Phan Thi Kim Phuc at the
display in the Science Museum in London, where photos, the original Leica
camera and a Muirhead K220 transmitter are exhibited. (Photo Christine
Nesbitt, AP)

  (53) Opening of the Wellcome wing of the Science Museum, June 27,2000:
l/r Horst Faas (AP sen. photo editor, Europe), Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut (AP Los
Angeles), Phan Thi Kim Phuc and Queen Elisabeth II, in discussion with Kim
Phuc. (AP Photo/ UK National Newspaper Pool)

  (54) Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut and Phan Thi Kim Phuc at the display in the
Science Museum in London, where photos, the original Leica camera and a
Muirhead K220 transmitter are exhibited. (Photo Christine Nesbitt, AP)

  (55) Not selected. Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut at the display in the Science
Museum in London, where photos, the original Leica camera and a Muirhead
K220 transmitter are exhibited. Foreground the Pulitzer winning photo
(1973) (Photo Christine Nesbitt, AP)

  (56) Opening of the Wellcome wing of the Science Museum, June 27,2000:
l/r Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut (AP Los Angeles), Phan Thi Kim Phuc and Queen
Elisabeth II, in discussion with Kim Phuc. (AP Photo/ UK National Newspaper
Pool)

  (57) Opening of the Wellcome wing of the Science Museum, June 27,2000:
l/r Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut (AP Los Angeles), Phan Thi Kim Phuc and Queen
Elisabeth II. Kim Phuc points at her 1972 picture. (AP Photo/ WPA pool/ Max
Nash).

  (58) Phan Thi Kim Phuc (l) and Huynh Cong 'Nick'  Ut discuss with Andrew
Nahum, curator of the London Science Museum (center) the display of Nick
Ut's Leica, photographs and a Muirhead K220 drum phototransmitter, June 27,
2000. Later in the dasy the Queen opened the new Wellcome wing of the
museum. (AP Photo/Christine Nesbitt)

  (59) Phan Thi Kim Phuc, AP[ photo editor Horst Faas and Huynh Cong Ut
(l/r) discuss Ut's award winning 1972 photograph at the London Science
Museum's display of Ut's photos, camera and Muirhead photo transmitter,
June 27, 2000. Background other exhibits of the show "Making the modern
World". Later the Queen opened the Wellcome wing of the museum. (AP
Photos/Christine Nesbitt)

  (60) Not selected. General view of the display case with photographs of
Nick Ut, his Leica camera and a Muirhead photo transmitter at the London
Science Museum, June 27,2000. L/r Horst Faas, AP photo editor, Phan Thi Kim
Phuc, subject of the June 8,1972 'napalm girl' picture and photographer
Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut, prior the opening of the Wellcome wing of the museum
by the Queen. (AP Photo/Christine Nesbitt)

  (61) L/r Kim Phuc's husband Bui Huy Toan. Phan Thi Kim Phuc, Huynh Cong
'Nick' Ut and Horst Faas, AP photo editor, at the display case with
photographs, the camera and a photo Muirhead K220 transmitter at the London
Science Museum, June 27, 2000. They atten ded the opening of the new
Wellcome museum wing by the Queen. (AP Photo/Christine Nesbitt)

H - Phan Thi Kim Phuc on a sightseeing tour in London, following their
meeting with the Queen.

  (62) Not selected . Phan Thi Kim Phuc and photographer Huynh Cong 'Nick'
Ut on London's Waterloo bridge during a sightseeing tour June 28,2000.
Background right the Houses of Parliament. Kim Phuc and Ut had met the
Queen the previous day. (AP Photo/Brigit Jones)

  (63) AP photographer Huyhnh Cong 'Nick' Ut snaps a souvenir picture of
Phan Thi Kim Phuc on London's Waterloo bridge during a sightseeing tour
June 28,2000. Both had met with the Queen the previous day. (AP
Photo/Brigit Jones)

  (64) AP photographer Nick Ut photographs Phan Thi Kim Phuc with some of
the pigeons on Trafalgar Square in London, June 28, 2000. Ut and Kim Phuc,
who had met with the Queen the( previous day, were on a London sightseeing
tour. (AP Photo/Brigit Jones)

  (65) Phan Thi Kim Phuc and AP photographer Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut during a
stroll in London Soho's China town, during a London sightseeing tour June
28, 2000, the day after they met the Queen. (AP Photo/Brigit Jones)

  (66) AP photographer Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut and Phan Thi Kim Phuc feed the
pigeons on Trafalgar Square while on a London sightseeing tour June
28,2000. They had met the Queen the prev ious day. (AP Photo/Brigit Jones)

  (67) AP Photographer Huynh Cong 'Nick' Ut, Phan Thi Kim Phuc and AP photo
editor Horst Faas on June 28,2000, during dinner in a Vietnamese restaurant
in London Fulham. (AP Photo/Robert Wiener)

Horst Faas, 6 July, 2000


 
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