Nguyễn Ngọc Loan

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Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (Vietnamese: [ŋʷǐənˀ ŋâwkp lʷāːn]; 11 December 1930 – 14 July 1998) was a South Vietnamese general and chief of the South Vietnamese National Police. Loan gained international attention when he summarily executed a handcuffed prisoner named Lê Công Nà on February 1, 1968, in Saigon, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyễn Cao Kỳ stated that the man was "a very high ranking" political official, but had not been a member of the Viet Cong military. The event was witnessed and recorded by Võ Sửu, a cameraman for NBC, and Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer. The photo and film became two famous images in contemporary American journalism. Despite the determination of the Immigration and Naturalization Service that Loan committed war crimes, owing to which he was liable for deportation back to Vietnam, the then US President Jimmy Carter intervened personally to halt the deportation proceedings.

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